Lawyers – The Services Offered

We represent the following professional, industry and legal areas within the United Kingdom, Wales and worldwide and many more:

Aviation

• Aircraft insurance and claims
• Aircraft Purchase, Leasing and Financing
• Charter arrangements

Banking, Finance and Securities

• Banking and financial product development
• Electronic banking
• Listing of securities and financial instruments on the relevant exchanges
• Corporate Housing schemes
• Equipment and asset financing including leasing, leverage leasing, installment sales and credit sales
• Project and structured financing
• Debt and equity financing of acquisitions, take-overs and mergers
• Exchange control
• Securities, futures and commodity trading
• Derivatives and derivative products
• General banking operations
• Securities lending
• Domestic and international trade and export credit financing
• Inter-bank development
• Securitisation Syndicated lending and finance

Building and Construction

• Building and engineering contracts
• Construction and engineering claims, disputes and alternative dispute resolution
• Professional engagement contracts
• International and local housing projects
• Project development, finance and management contracts
• Guarantees, including performance and retention guarantees

Commercial

• General commercial agreements
• Partnerships and joint venture agreements
• Supply and manufacturing agreements
• Franchising, licensing, distribution and agency agreements
• Sale and lease agreements for movable and immovable property
• International Business Law
• Corporate Lawyers
• Business Contract Law
• Elder Law Attorneys

Competition/ anti-trust

• Competion law and compliance investigations
• Exemption applications
• Instituting and defending complaints
• Merger notifications

Constitutional Law

• Advisory and upholding constitutional rights

Corporate

• Corporate finance agreements
• Registration of external companies
• Share buy-backs
• Corporate governance
• Formation of all forms of corporate entities, including companies, close corporations business trusts
• Rights offers, debenture issues and scrip dividends
• Stock Exchange listings, public offerings, private placing and underwriting
• Formation of share incentive schemes and trusts
• JSE and SRP compliance
• Schemes of arrangement
• Section companies, incorporated and unincorporated clubs and societies
• International Business Law
• Corporate Lawyers
• Business Contract Law
• Elder Law Attorneys

Employment

• Employee disputes
• Employee incentive schemes
• Employment contracts
• Employment equity compliance
• Employment law implications of mergers and acquisitions
• Health and safety regulations and compliance
• Restraints of trade
• Termination of employment, retrenchment and redundancy
• Unfair dismissals

Entertainment

• Chain of title
• Financing, production and location agreements
• Artists’ agreements, employment agreements and work permit applications
• Sport and event sponsorships

Environmental Law

• Environmental legal assessments and audits
• Compliance with environmental legislation

Healthcare

• Pharmaceutical and medical legislation
• Medical claims and schemes

Insolvency

• Judicial management
• Restructuring and refinancing of companies
• Schemes of arrangement and offers of compromise

Insurance

• Establishment of captive insurance companies
• Insurance claims and disputes
• Screening of brokers.
• Shipping and marine insurance Taxation of insurance companies
• Acquisition, disposal and restructuring of insurance companies
• Advising on policy documents

Litigation / Arbitration / ADR

• Provision of arbitrators and mediators for commercial, building, engineering and information technology disputes
• Arbitration, mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution
• Defamation
• International Business Law
• Corporate Lawyers
• Business Contract Law
• Elder Law Attorneys

Mergers and Acquisitions

• Structuring of mergers and acquisitions
• Unbundling transactions
• Corporate restructuring and reorganisation
• Due diligence investigations and audits
• Management and leveraged buy-outs
• Schemes of arrangement

Mining and Minerals

• Oil and gas contracts Refining and processing contracts
• Maintenance of mineral rights, prospecting rights, mining rights, prospecting permits, mining authorisations
• Environmental and rehabilitation issues

Property Law

• Property trusts
• Residential, commercial and industrial property transactions
• Township proclamation and development
• Acquisitions and disposals
• Expropriations
• Housing schemes, including low cost housing, retirement development, sectional title, share-block
• Property portfolio and development financing

State Restructuring

• Public private partnerships
• Assets
• Corporatizations

Shipping and International Trade

• Logistics management and outsourcing
• Maritime law
• Bulk storage, freight forwarding and handling
• International and local tax planning
• Purchase, sale and lease of ships and containers Tariffs and anti-dumping

Taxation

• Objections and appeals
• Review of tax structures
• Secondary tax on companies
• Capital gains tax
• Income tax advice

Telecommunications, Media & Technology

• Standard provider terms and conditions, user policies and disclaimers
• Barter and airtime sponsorship agreements
• Media production, including standard commissioning, distribution, license, barter deals and spin-off agreements
• Press freedom and mass media liability
• Promotional competitions, trade promotions and advertising regulation
• Publishing, printing and distribution agreements
• E-business transaction processing
• Strategic sourcing, including outsourcing, system implementation and integrator agreements
• Service level scoping and management
• Technology policy
• Broadcasting, telecommunications and convergence regulation
• Hardware supply, procurement, leasing and management
• Hosting services
• Interconnection and facilities leasing
• Network development and consulting agreements
• Software licensing and management

Trusts & Estates

• Estate planning
• Wills
• Administration of estates and trusts
• Formation of inter vivos and will trusts

Trade Marks and Copyright

• Passing-off and unlawful competition
• Trade mark registrations, maintenance and protection
• Copyright protection

YOUR ADVANTAGES

Trust needs to be earned

Legal advice is a matter of trust. We don’t simply ask our clients to trust in the quality of the service and the integrity of the staff and the partners. But we invite you to gain this trust through successfully implemented projects and transactions. Test us!
We are fully aware that you as the client have to be able to rely on your lawyers’ advice and competence at all times. Our partners’ actions are guided by this: we ensure the quality of our service through regular quality reviews and the four-eyes principle which applies to all partners and senior partners.

Entrepreneurial approach by conviction

Our lawyers always advise you pro-actively. We respond flexibly and fast. Naturally, we don’t only point out risks, but we offer clear instructions on how to act.
Our advice is tailored to your individual goals and your definitions of success. You may always expect that our lawyers know and understand your business.

Internationality and stability

Thanks to the interdisciplinary cooperation with the international offices of Europlaw we have a wealth of experience both at the national and the international level.

Especially if your business spans more than one country, you will find the right partner in us. You will benefit from the local presence and our international connections.

The personal contact with our clients is very important to us. Short and direct means of communication can be decisive for a quick and efficient implementation of a project. In order to ensure this, a personal contact will always be available to you.