Legal Services

Our commercial attorneys practice as a specialised team which is committed to ensuring the success of your business. We offer a range of commercial legal services to a wide range of companies.  We approach  company law, contract law, competition law and labour law in a holistic “best for your business” manner. In this way we can maximise the value we add to your business by offering legal services tailored to meet your company’s needs. 

How companies are set up matters, and how the relationships between shareholders and directors are governed is vital. We understand the corporate governance frameworks that either assist or undermine the running of a business. Similarly we know what it takes to make transactions succeed; from understanding the business opportunities (in order to maximise them) to appreciating risks (in order to mitigate them), and everything in between.

We add value to corporate and commercial transactions, and the day to day legal requirements of your company, by offering tailored solutions that really work.

• Company set-up and tailor-made corporate governance frameworks
• Advice on the structuring of transactions, corporate structuring and tax
• Preparation and drafting of commercial agreements relating to a broad sphere of commercial activities, including, but not limited to:
  • Memoranda of Incorporation
  • Shareholders agreements
  • Sale of shares and subscription agreements
  • Mergers and acquisitions
    • legal and environmental due diligence investigations
    • transaction contracts and advice
• Private equity and venture capital transactions
• Competition Law advice and services
• Commercial Contracts (including “business as usual” terms and conditions)
• Sales of business
• Share incentive schemes
• Labour Law advice and services
• Black economic empowerment transactions
• Joint ventures
• Loan agreements and funding agreements
• Security agreements
• Technology agreements
• Registration of notarial and other bonds
• Residential and commercial lease agreements
• Partnership agreements
• Licence agreements
• Development agreements
• Franchise agreements
• Manufacturing agreements
• Corporate governance, including the King Code of Governance for South Africa 2009 (“King III”)
• Dispute resolution

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