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Lionel van Tonder

Director · Webber Wentzel

South AfricaForensic Services, Business Crime

About

Director at Webber Wentzel based in South Africa, specialising in business crimes investigations including financial crime, compliance, forensic data and analytics, digital forensics and eDiscovery. He has extensive experience prosecuting and investigating economic crime, money laundering and fraud, and was a signing partner on the Steinhoff investigation; prior roles include 25 years at PwC and a decade as a public prosecutor and state advocate.

Practice areas

Forensic ServicesBusiness CrimeFinancial Crime & ComplianceDigital ForensicseDiscoveryWhite-Collar CrimeAnti-Money LaunderingInvestigations

Office

Expertise

Financial crime investigationsForensic data analyticsDigital forensics & eDiscoveryEconomic crime prosecutionAnti-money laundering investigationsFraud and corruption investigations

Education

  • LLB, University of South Africa, 1990
  • B.Juris, University of the Free State, 1985

Admissions

  • Admitted Advocate of the High Court of South Africa