Business rescue is a legal process aimed at facilitating the rehabilitation of a financially distressed company in South Africa. The process is governed by chapter 6 of the Companies Act, No. 71 of 2008.
Corporate and commercial legal work involves providing legal services to businesses and corporations. This can include a wide range of legal issues such as acquisitions, disposals, restructurings, banking and finance law, construction law and other commercial issues.
This involves a process where we change the organizational structure of a company as a way of limiting the financial distress and so improving the company overall.
This is an area of law that seeks to promote and protect competition within a market. To ensure that fair competition exists within a market and that conduct such as price fixing and collusion between competitors are eliminated.
This area of law concerns the roles, powers, and structures of different entities of the state. Further, it regulates the interpretation and application of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa.
Insolvency law is the legal framework that governs the status of diminished legal capacity imposed by the courts and/or law on persons and/or juristic entities and/or trusts who are unable to pay their debts or whose liabilities exceed their assets.
This area of law deals with the protection and enforcement of rights of the creators and owners of inventions, writing, music, designs and other works. There are various areas of intellectual property includes trade marks, patents, copyrights, etc.
Labour law in South Africa regulates the relationship between employers, employees and trade unions. It ensures fair working conditions, collective bargaining, and the elimination of forced and child labour.
This area of law concerns the legal rules which governs family matters such as marriage, divorce and inheritance, etc. This practice area includes amongst others civil unions, domestic partnerships, adoption, surrogacy, annulment, child abuse, divorce, property settlements, maintenance and parental responsibility.
It is an area of law that governs how advertisements and communication to the public is managed. It seeks to protect the public against advertisers that use false, misleading and deceptive advertisements to induce consumers into buying those goods or services.
This is an area of law that regulates and governs the development, manufacturing, registration, importation, exportation, sale, distribution, and use of medicine.
Tax law governs the laws that regulate the tax processes that individuals and entities need to comply with. We will assist clients with regards to the tax implications that they may or are experiencing in terms of concluded or future transactions.