Commercial Law
Our broad expertise in most areas of corporate, commercial, and property law, enables us to render the highest quality commercial legal advice to a broad range of domestic and national clients. Our department, comprising experienced and open-minded attorneys, notaries, conveyancers in association with Charted Accountants, Auditors and Tax Practitioners, renders services including:
- Negotiating, drafting, implementing, and interpreting commercial agreements that are extremely varied in their nature to a commercial client base that reaches all areas of the commerce spectrum.
- Mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances, business reorganizations and restructurings, SMME business, commercial advice and structuring, corporate governance, and BEE transactions.
- Advice on, and professional assistance with, the incorporation of juristic entities, including all types of trusts, takeovers of existing entities and the personalization thereof, the preparation and registration of all corporate documentation, including, memorandum of incorporations, company resolutions, shareholders’ agreements, loan agreements, liquidation and sequestration applications, buy/sell agreements and share acquisition agreements.
- Tax advice from our registered tax practitioners on all transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, transactions involving offshore entities, corporate group restructurings, foreign loan approvals and exchange controls, the structuring and restructuring of corporate and shareholder’s loans, declaring of dividends, voluntary and compulsory sequestrations, and de-registrations.
- Cross-border advice to companies at a strategic level and managing the implementation of complex transactions both domestically and internationally.
- Corporate financial management, including the supervision of auditors/accounting officers/bookkeepers in the preparation of annual financial statements, conducting of audits and forensic audits, and the day-to-day financial management of corporations.
- Comprehensive statutory company secretarial services.
Contact Billy Meintjes or Director Khoza at e-mail: litigation@meintjieskhoza.co.za for assistance with any of these or other commercial law-related queries