With our expertise and friendly approach, we deal with every legal matter in an effective and efficient manner and ensure a pleasant experience for our clients. His experience further includes all aspects of regulatory work in the mining and petroleum (upstream) industries, for listed and unlisted senior, mid-tier and junior companies, as well as for financial institutions with regard to resource-finance projects.
Samantha's experience includes advising clients on various individual and collective labour law matters, including on large-scale retrenchments, unfair and automatically unfair dismissal and unfair labour practice claims, strikes, restraints of trade, as well as drafting pleadings and heads of argument in launching and defending proceedings in the South African Labour Court, the Labour Appeal Court, the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration and the Constitutional Court.
Since joining ENSafrica in 2008, HB has been involved in several high profile competition matters including complaints regarding alleged collusive practices and abuses of dominance, and has acted for a number of high-profile clients in merger transactions in South Africa, sub-Saharan Africa and the COMESA states.
Her experience includes advising on equity capital markets, private equity acquisitions and disposals, empowerment transactions, corporate governance, the South African Companies Act, 2008, IPOs, ECM and stock exchange transactions in multiple sectors, including mining, banking and financial services, and telecoms.
Faryn's experience includes advising local and international clients on a variety of employment-related issues such as unfair dismissals disputes, unfair labour practice disputes, drafting of employment contracts and company policy documents, as well as disputes relating to the enforcement of restraints of trade.
She also has experience in litigation, as well as regulatory knowledge of, and experience in terms of, property law, natural resources law (water, environment, minerals and energy), expropriation, shipping law, administrative law and constitutional law.
Stephan's experience also includes advising clients on corporate matters and drafting and negotiating various commercial documents, including company constitutional documents; services, supply, licensing and assignment agreements; trust deeds; exchange control applications; and company resolutions.
This despite wild and hysterical allegations made by a spokesperson for South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority, and unsurprisingly Discovery's puppet touting attorney Anthony Millar, by faithfully reporting on the captive publications and primarily in the Discovery controlled South African Jewish Report by Ant Katz, a relation to Discovery's Jeff Katz.
Pieter has successfully assisted a number of employers in conducting health and safety audits, as well as in the preparation and implementation of statutory appointment letters and in dealing with statutory enforcement measures (such as closure orders, prohibition notices, suspension of certificates of competency and recommendations for the imposition of administrative fines) in terms of the applicable South African mine and occupational health and safety legislation.
She specialises in finance transactions involving preference shares, structured finance transactions, capital markets, ISDA related transactions, debt financing, Personal Injury Lawyers collective investment schemes, pension fund liability matching transactions, short-term and long-term insurance related matters and regulatory work.
Steven's experience also includes anti-fraud and corruption matters and assisting clients to meet the anti-corruption compliance requirements in the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the UK Bribery Act, as well as the South African Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities Act.
Again one presumes that had the publishers of the Advocate's Journal or the editor thereof, been aware as at August 2011 of any South African Case Law holding common-law contingency fee agreements to be invalid or unlawful, the editor would have placed a note at the commencement of the article or at the end, indicating that since the learned Judge had presented his paper, there had been such a decision.