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Bernard Hotz

Director Bernard Hotz is Head of the Business Crimes & Investigations practice area. · Werksmans Attorneys

South AfricaBusiness Crime & Investigations, Litigation

About

Director at Werksmans Attorneys (appointed director in 2000) and Head of the Business Crimes & Investigations practice. He is a commercial litigator who specialises in corporate fraud/business crimes, banking and insurance litigation, stock-exchange and competition matters, intellectual property and media disputes, and is active in arbitration and Africa-related work; he also serves as a Commissioner of the Small Claims Court (appointed 2013).

Practice areas

Business Crime & InvestigationsLitigationArbitrationIntellectual PropertyCompetition/AntitrustBanking & FinanceInsuranceMedia & Entertainment

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Expertise

Corporate fraud / Business crimesBanking litigationInsurance litigationStock exchange-related litigationCompetition / Antitrust mattersIntellectual property litigation (trademark and copyright enforcement)Media law disputesAdministrative lawArbitrationAfrica practice

Education

  • BCom LLB, University of the Witwatersrand

Admissions

  • Member, Law Society of the Northern Provinces
  • Commissioner of the Small Claims Court (appointed 2013)