Commercial

As a business operating in today’s increasingly regulated markets, you need to manage your commercial risk while achieving your business objectives. Your success is built upon the effectiveness and robustness of your relationships with third parties, whether they are your customers, suppliers or intermediaries. Contractual arrangements attuned to the sectors and markets in which you operate are key.

Whether you require advice on supply arrangements, services agreements, technology or telecommunications contracts, manufacturing agreements, consumer arrangements, software licensing, outsourcing or any other bespoke commercial arrangement, our specialists can guide you towards the best business outcome for you.

We are market-leading practitioners and have shaped many of the landmark deals in the sectors which we serve.

This means that we do not simply counsel our clients on how to paper their transactions but work with them from the start to advise on structure, which is most effective for them, and leverage the vast experience our senior professionals have acquired through their years of operating in our dynamic industry across a variety of sectors, operations and markets.

Our commercial lawyers also benefit from the support of colleague experts in complementary legal areas including specialists in tax and exchange control, banking and finance arrangements, dispute resolution, corporate investigations, competition law and a variety of other areas.

We don't distinguish "legal points" and "commercial points". If an issue is relevant to the deal we are working on, then we will understand it and help our clients to resolve it. We also understand that contracts are important for our clients, and time pressured. Our clients don't need to explain to us that something is urgent or critical; we know already.

Our integrated corporate and commercial team is fully equipped and able to progress your commercial objectives and advise on a variety of issues including:

• Black Economic Empowerment 
• business trusts 
• capital markets 
• conducting legal due diligence investigations 
• corporate governance 
• corporate restructuring 
• equity capital markets 
• establishment of business entities 
• exchange control 
• general corporate and commercial issues 
• investment funds 
• mergers and acquisitions 
• private equity 
• take-overs 
• transaction structuring