\>Corporate and commercial law_

Services

We help clients to register, manage, leverage and protect intellectual property assets, which includes advice in respect of patents, designs, trade marks, copyright, domain names and trade secrets.

Our services include work in the following areas:

  • Transactional work (e.g. advice, mergers, acquisitions, due diligence)
  • Corporate governance, structures, shareholder relationships (e.g. memorandum of incorporation, share classes, shareholders agreement, board rules)
  • Funding, private equity, venture capital (e.g. subscriptions, convertible loans, buy-backs)
  • Notarial work (e.g. notarial deeds, apostilles, authentications)
  • Exchange control
  • Company secretarial (e.g. incorporation, share issues and securities registers)

Recent work

Our recent engagements include:

  • Assisted multi-national AI share trading company to structure its affairs internationally
  • Assisted with the establishment and commercialisation of a high technology children's education business
  • Acted for machine learning company when large bank acquired stake
  • Assisted with the establishment of a specialised radar technology business with preference share terms for venture capital fund
  • Acted for mineral processing technology company to conclude foreign direct investment transactions to establish international distribution branches
  • Acted for private equity partner in the construction and commissioning of a new solar PV plant and power purchasing arrangements
  • Acted for a leading multi-national property technology company in a disinvestment transaction with a major listed shareholder
  • Acted for a payment platform technology business in coordinating a consolidation of the shareholding of various shareholders across the group of companies

Recent blog post

Beware of shareholders opting out when amending an MOI

The introduction of the appraisal remedy in section 164 of the Companies Act, 71 of 2008 (“Companies Act”) offers dissenting shareholders a right to exit a company at fair value in the event of certain fundamental transactions and corporate actions.  
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