The department offers a full range of expert services in all aspects of corporate and commercial law. This division is involved locally, nationally and internationally with:
- Agency, distributorship, licensing and franchising structures
- Amalgamations, restructuring and unbundling
- Banking and finance, including conventional and Islamic banking and finance
- Black economic empowerment (BBBEE) structures
- Business rescue, insolvency and liquidation
- Credit, hire purchase, instalment sale and asset lease agreements
- Competition law
- Company formations, secretarial work and CIPC registrations
- Consumer protection laws
- Contracts including options, offers and memoranda of understanding
- Corporate governance, director, member and shareholder issues
- Due diligences and legal audits
- Exchange control matters
- Energy and petroleum matters
- Information and communication technology law
- Leasing and occupational rights
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Mining agreements
- Partnerships and joint ventures, including public private partnerships (PPP)
- Property development and planning schemes
- Standard trading terms, disclaimers and statutory warranties
- Structured finance, lending, preference share schemes and securities
- Tax law
- Sugar industry law
- Trusts, their structure, formation and alteration
- Takeovers, sales of businesses, offers to minorities and management buyouts
- Water law
Contributing Advisors
Director,
Garlicke & Bousfield Inc