Services
Corporate Law
This is a broad practice area that concerns the formation and management of a business entity, as well as the everyday legal needs faced by a business. We act to ensure that our clients are efficiently structured, compliant with law and protected in their relationships with customers, suppliers, partners and financiers. Typical services we render are advising on and preparing agreements for:
- Business vehicle structuring and formation: sole proprietors, partnerships, companies, joint ventures, close corporations and trusts.
- Business succession planning and execution: due diligence investigations, share disposals and acquisitions.
- Corporate governance best practice: issues of directors duties and responsibility, corporate ethics, anti-bribery and corruption, human rights.
- Non-disclosure agreements, credit applications and credit terms, standard terms and conditions.
- Sale agreements, agency agreements, lease agreements.
- Employment agreements and policies.
- Consultancy and independent contractor agreements.
Litigation, Collections and Dispute Resolution
This practice area concerns the enforcement of client rights in a Court of Law or by alternative dispute resolutions methods such as adjudication, mediation and/or arbitration. Key services include:
- Advising on prospects of success in legal proceedings.
- Initiating and pursuing High Court and Magistrates Court claims.
- Debt recovery for contractual debts or damages.
- Adjudications and arbitration proceedings.
Trusts & Estates
This area of our practice revolves around helping clients structure their personal financial affairs in a manner that:
- Protects and ringfences their assets and holdings during this life time;
- Through long-term tax planning, helps to ensure that their personal estates are alleviated from some of the onerous taxes and costs associated with death; and
- Allows for effective wealth preservation and transfer to their heirs and descendants.
We work with specialized teams of financial and tax advisors to ensure that the clients receive advice of the highest calibre. Some of our services include:
- Estate advisory and structuring;
- Trust registration and administration;
- Drafting of wills and testamentary trust provisions;
- Administration of estates.
