Legal Services to be offered

Aviation

• Aircraft insurance and claims
• Aircraft Purchase. Leasing and financing
• Charter arrangements

Banking, Finance and Securities

• Banking and financial product development
• Corporate housing schemes
• Debt and equity financing of acquisitions, take-overs and mergers
• Derivatives and derivative products
• Domestic and international trade and export credit financing
• Electronic banking
• Equipment and asset financing including leasing, leverage leasing, installment sales and credit sales
• Exchange control
• General banking operations and dispute resolutions
• Inter-bank development
• Listing of securities and financial instruments on the relevant exchanges
• Project and structured financing
• Securities: Futures and commodity trading
• Securities lending
• Securities syndicated lending and finance

Black Economic Empowerment

• Black Economic Empowerment strategy and policy
• Compliance with industry charters, scorecards and enterprise definitions
• Compliance with skills development and employment equity legislation
• Structuring of Black Economic Empowerment, transactions

Building and construction

• Building and engineering contracts
• International and local housing projects
• Construction and engineering claims, disputes, and alternative dispute resolution
• Guarantees, including performance and retention guarantees
• Professional engagement contracts
• Project development, finance and management contracts

Commercial

• General commercial agreements
• Franchising, licensing, distribution and agency agreements
• Partnerships and joint venture agreements
• Sale and lease agreements for movable and immovable property
• Supply and manufacturing agreements

Competition/anti-trust

• Competition law compliance investigations
• Exemption applications
• Instituting and defending complaints
• Merger notifications
• Interim relief applications

Constitutional Law

• Defending and upholding constitutional rights

Corporate

• Corporate finance agreements
• Corporate governance
• Formation of all forms of corporate entities including companies, close corporations, business trusts
• Formation of share incentive schemes and trusts
• JSE and SRP compliance
• Registration of external companies
• Rights offers, debenture issues and scrip dividends
• Schemes arrangement
• Section 21 companies, incorporated and unincorporated clubs and societies
• Share buy-backs
• Stock Exchange listings, public offerings, private placing and underwriting

Employment

• Employee disputes and arbitration before the CCMA and Labour Court
• Employee incentive schemes
• Employment contracts
• Employment equity compliance
• Employment law implications of mergers and acquisitions
• Health and safety regulations and compliance
• Restraints of trade
• Termination of employment, retrenchment and redundancy
• Personal injury and workman's compensation
• Unfair dismissals

Entertainment

• Chain of title
• Financing, production and location agreements
• Artists' agreements, employments and work permit applications
• Sport and event sponsorships

Environmental Law

• Environmental legal assessments and audits
• Compliance and environmental legislation

Healthcare

• Pharmaceutical and medical legislation
• Medical claims and schemes

Insolvency

• Judicial management
• Restructuring and refinancing of companies
• Schemes of arrangement and offers of compromise

Insurance

• Establishment of captive insurance companies
• Insurance claims and disputes
• Screening of brokers
• Shipping and marine insurance.
• Taxation of insurance companies
• Acquisition, disposal and restructuring of insurance companies
• Advising on policy documents

Corporate lawyers/Arbitration/ADR

• Provision of arbitrators and mediators for commercial building, engineering and information technology disputes
• Arbitration, mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution
• Commercial dispute resolutions
• Defamation
• Product liability claims
• Professional negligence claims

Mergers and Acquisitions

• Structuring of mergers and acquisitions
• Unbundling transactions
• Corporate restructuring and reorganisation
• Due diligence and investigations and audits
• Management and leveraged buy-outs
• Schemes of arrangement

Mining and Minerals

• Oil and gas contracts. Refining and processing contracts
• Maintenance of mineral rights, prospecting rights, mining rights, prospecting permits, mining authorizations
• Environmental and rehabilitation issues

Property Law

• Property trusts
• Residential, commercial and industrial property transactions
• Township proclamation and development
• Acquisitions and disposals
• Expropriations
• Housing schemes, including low cost housing, retirement development, sectional title, title, share-block and time-share schemes.
• Mortgage and participation bonds
• Mortgage finance schemes
• Property portfolio and development financing

State Restructuring

• Public private partnerships
• Assets
• Corporatisations

Shipping and International Trade

• Logistics management and outsourcing
• Maritime law
• Bulk storage, freight forwarding and handling
• International and local tax planning
• Purchase, sale and lease of ships and containers.
• Tariffs and anti-dumping

Taxation

• Objections and appeals
• Review of tax structures
• Secondary tax on companies
• Capital gains tax
• Income tax advice

Telecommunications, Media & Technology

• Standard provider terms and conditions, user policies and disclaimers
• Barter and airtime sponsorship agreements
• Media production including standard commissioning, distribution, license, barter deals and spin-off agreements
• Press freedom and mass media liability
• Promotional competitions, trade promotions and advertising regulation
• Publishing, printing and distribution, agreements
• E-Business transaction processing
• Strategic sourcing, including outsourcing, system implementation and integrator agreements
• Service level scoping and management
• And management
• Technology policy
• Broadcasting, telecommunications and convergence regulation
• Hardware supply procurement, leasing and management
• Hosting services
• Interconnection and facilities leasing
• Network development and consulting agreements
• Software licensing and management

Trusts & Estates

• Estate planning
• Administration of estates and trusts
• Formation of inter vivo and will trusts

Trade Marks and Copyright

• Passing-off and unlawful competition
• Trade mark registrations, maintenance and protection
• Copyright protection