At some point, every business will need a commercial lawyer for their business. Whether you are hiring new staff, negotiating business contracts or selling a portion of your company, you need an experienced legal expert to advise you, prepare your legal documents and protect your legal rights. Avoiding the potential consequences of a bad contract and getting more favourable terms for your business starts with having access to a legal specialist.

Our services include:

We deal with both spheres of law pertaining to law suits based on the application procedure as well as law suits based on the action procedure, the latter, which primarily proceeds to trial should the settlement process not be forthcoming. Our civil litigation department ensures that it assists and guides our clients through the entire civil litigation process which essentially entails pursuing the non-criminal route. Once all reasonable endeavors have been pursued and exhausted, and settlement negotiations no longer remain a viable option, we ensure that we speedily and effectively comply with all the necessary steps to bring the entire legal process to finality. We assist our clients with the initiation of legal processes. Alternatively, in the carrying forth of viable defenses or oppositions depending on whether a High Court or Magistrate Court action or application process is followed. We ensure that we provide the utmost quality of service to ensure that our client’s claims, alternatively, defences are upheld.

As experienced Family Law Attorneys, our team regularly helps people and families who need legal guidance in terms of maintenance and divorce proceedings.

A divorce action is instituted by the issuing of a summons. You can divorce in either the Regional Court that have jurisdiction in your area or in the High Court. To start the divorce process, you need to serve a Summons. A divorce summons is unique in that it must be served personally on the defendant by the sheriff of the court. In the Republic of South Africa, the marital regime of the parties determines how the assets will be divided upon dissolution of the marriage, the assets being those at the time of the divorce.

There are many aspects of Family Law of which we assist which include:

• Maintenance;
• Divorces;
• Parental responsibilities and rights;
• Foster Care;
• Universal partnerships; and
• Domestic Violence – protection orders.

We have an expert team who is concerned with your best interests and well-being. We will do our best to understand and treat your matter with the utmost diligence and sensitivity as each case is different and we value all clients.

In ensuring that the passage of law is maintained and the protection of both employer and employee rights upheld, our team strives to provide our utmost in the provision of excellent services in the Labour & Employment Law sphere. We host a dedicated panel of attorneys that specializes in providing assistance and advice in both the public and private labour law sector.

We provide comprehensive services in the accommodation of our client’s needs in wills, trusts and estates. In the providing of these services we consider it vital to enlighten our clients on the principles as well as the importance of being in possession of a valid and up-to-date will and a sound and financially planned estate and trust.

Companies and Close Corporations who fail to pass the Insolvency and Liquidity test, or are temporally financial distressed, or who’s liabilities exceed its assets (insolvent) can be either placed in Business Rescue under the supervision of a Business Rescue Practitioner, or be Liquidated depending upon the circumstances.

In the event of Business Rescue a moratorium is created which prohibits creditors to pursue with legal action and entitle the Company or Close Corporation some breathing space to get its finances in order with the assistance of a Business Rescue Practitioner, and within the ambit of the Companies Act. Liquidation means that the Company or Close Corporation will cease to exist and a liquidator is appointed to distribute the assets and liabilities.

We also assist clients who wish to become sequestrated or where applications are brought against such clients to sequestrate the estates.

Legal compliance, which can narrowly be defined to mean the process by which an organization ensures that it observes and complies with the external statutory laws and regulations. It entails three components namely:

• Legal governance;
• Legal risk management; and
• Legal compliance.

Each business is unique and has its own set of compliance requirements to adhere to based on the relevant industry in which they operate. Companies need an overview of their legal compliance position against any Act, standard or practices. To ensure compliance, companies must be kept up to date with the changes in legislation to avoid referring to outdated legislation.

Construction Law is a permutation of various fields of the law including commercial, contract and labour law. We advise clients on all construction agreements including GCC, NEC, JBCC and FIDIC, MBSA. Furthermore, we assist with the drafting of contractor and sub-contractor agreements, arbitration proceedings and high court litigation in respect of construction law.

Mining Law is a permutation of contract law, law of delict and the common law. We deal with the legal necessities that effect mining whilst taking into consideration all relevant legislation governing the Mining Sector.

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