Practice Areas

Business Rescue

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.

Commercial and Corporate Work

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.

Company Restructuring

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.

Competiton Law

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.

Constitutional law

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

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.

Intellectual property

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

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.

Matrimonial law

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.

Law of Advertising

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.

Pharmaceutical law

This is an area of law that regulates and governs the development, manufacturing, registration, importation, exportation, sale, distribution, and use of medicine.

Tax law

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.

Please note that Senekal Simmonds Inc does not offer services in the fields of:

Criminal

Personal Injury Claims

Third Party and Road Accident Fund Claims