DISTINGUISHING SERVICES & EXPRIENCE

Service, results and cost-effectiveness are the core values of their approach to a particular matter.  This department offer services relating to business law and banking litigation.  The attorneys in this department offers professional services to the majority of South Africa’s leading banking and financial institutions as well as offering services in general litigation of a business perspective.  From a business perspective, our team is experienced in and offer services relating to the following areas of law.

BUSINESS LITIGATION

The department handles, on behalf of its clients, all forms of alternative dispute resolution, arbitration and mediation and actions and applications in the courts of South Africa or before other tribunals.

We have litigation experience in inter alia the following areas of law: contractual claims, product liability claims, defamation, professional negligence claims, unfair competition, unlawful trade practices and ownership protection.

The department prides itself on its practical and business-like approach to all issues and it guarantees a high level of professional service at reasonable rates. Service, results and cost effectiveness are the values at the core of our approach.

The members of this department believe in the formation and maintaining of long lasting relationships with their clients’ representatives as experience has shown that an open and honest relationship and a mutual understanding of needs, approaches and demands, cultivates the achievement of common goals.

This department offers a wide range of specialist banking and business related services.

From a banking perspective, it offers professional services to the majority of South Africa’s leading banking and financial institutions in the following fields:  Credit Law, Insurance Law, Pension Fund Law and Competition Law.

CREDIT LAW

The department has the practical knowledge and understanding to offer services relating to assessment and managing of risk, securing exposure, advising on and putting in place of compromises and arrangements, managing cash-strapped customers, dealing with delinquent accounts and assisting in and advising on the day to day challenges which cross the path of every credit manager. Our client base comprises a variety of industries, including the liquor, milling and baking, metal and steel, clothing and textile, building and construction, clearing and forwarding, commodity trading and building supplies industries as well as leading credit insurance companies.


INSURANCE LAW

This specialized division is geared to meet the needs of the highly developed South African insurance industry.  The firm offers its clients a wide range of services catering for all long and short term insurance needs, which include:

Insurance litigation, including all claims & disputes

Opinion & advice on insurance legislation
 
Policies on the assessment & management of risk

Fire, motor accident & general liability insurance

Long term insurance & Pension Fund Law


PENSION FUND LAW

We offer our clients the following services relating to the pension fund industry:

Drafting and offering of advice on Rules for Pension Funds

Assisting in the drafting of & finalisation of complaints before the Pension Funds Adjudicator

Dealing with the Financial Services Board in respect of Pension Fund Rules

Registration, amendments & attendance of Trustees


COMPETITION LAW

This division, headed by Musa Ntsibande, is actively involved in the growing field of Competition Law and are suitably equipped to deal with all aspects relating to prohibited practices, merger control and Competition Law litigation, including complaint procedures.