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Bridget Letsholo
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Bridget Letsholo

Head of Business Restructuring & Insolvency

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Bridget is a Director at CMS South Africa and the Head of Business Restructuring and Insolvency at CMS South Africa.

Bridget’s experience in litigation, informal and formal restructuring (insolvency and business rescue) and insurance litigation include professional indemnity claims and claims arising from trade credit and director and officer liability. She has vast experience in cross-border litigation, forensic investigations and fraud, disputes between parties, regulation and compliance laws, corporate recovery of debt and providing strategic direction on proposed rules. 

She also has vast experience in matters involving the fiduciary duties of directors’ and officers’ and has successfully pursued and defended matters relating to directors’ and officers’ liability. This includes matters relating to reckless and negligent trading, gross misconduct, and fraud. 
 

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    They go over and above to ensure that the client's interests are protected.
    Legal 500, South Africa, 2025

Relevant experience

  • Represented major credit insurers on all aspects of credit insurance, litigation, and recoveries. 
  • Representing creditors in business rescue proceedings insolvency, turnarounds and, business restructuring matters and safeguarding their rights and interests. This includes placing companies in rescue on behalf of affected persons. 
  • Acting for various clients in all aspects of insurance, litigation, and recoveries.
  • Representing parties in commercial litigation, debt recovery, business rescue, insolvency, turnarounds and restructuring matters across various industries including mining, construction, manufacturing, and aviation. This includes placing companies in rescue or liquidation and safeguarding the rights and interests of affected persons, as well as acting on behalf of business rescue and insolvency practitioners. 
  • Pursuing directors for claims resulting from breaches of fiduciary duties, reckless trading, negligence, and fraud, including the subsequent sequestration of these directors.
  • Perfection and enforcement of securities.

Memberships & Roles

  • Admitted Attorney, High Court of South Africa (2013)
  • Member of the Legal Practice Council, Gauteng office
     

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