Lawyers in South Africa

Jerry Kaapu

Partner

Bowmans

Jesse Watson

Partner

Webber Wentzel

Jimmy Mkhabela

Partner

Webber Wentzel

Joanne van Harmelen

Partner

Adams & Adams

Joanne van Harmelen

Partner

Adams & Adams

Joe Whittle

Joe Whittle is a Director in our Dispute Resolution practice and a member of our Construction sector. Joe specialises in construction dispute resolution including mediation, adjudication, arbitration and litigation, and has experience in FIDIC, NEC 3, JBCC Series 2000, GCC and other forms of construction and engineering contracts, both in representing parties to disputes involving such contracts and in the negotiation of the terms thereof. Joe also has a wide range of experience in general commercial litigation, litigation pertaining to medical aid schemes and insolvencies.

Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr

Johan Botes

Johan Botes heads Baker McKenzie’s Employment & Compensation Practice Group in Johannesburg. Johan is experienced in employment law and labor relations, focusing on South African and sub-Saharan African employment law and employee relations. He regularly advises multinational clients on industrial relations, employment negotiations, labor dispute resolution, change management, and organizational restructuring. His team manages multijurisdictional employment and employee relations projects on behalf of various multinational clients.

Baker McKenzie Johannesburg

Johan De Lange

Johan de Lange is the Deputy Practice Head of our Banking, Finance & Projects practice. Johan is a banking and finance lawyer with years of experience in the domestic and international debt markets where he practiced as a leading transacting lawyer with preeminent commercial law firms in London and Johannesburg. His field of specialisation includes acquisition and leveraged finance, private equity fund financings, project and infrastructure finance, commercial real estate finance, asset and structured finance, general syndicated debt and capital restructure transactions where he has worked on several of market-leading transactions in these areas.

Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr

Johan Henning

Partner

Webber Wentzel

Johan Lubbe

Director

Werksmans Attorneys

Johan Olivier

Consultant

Webber Wentzel

Johan de Lange

Johan de Lange is the Deputy Practice Head of our Finance & Banking practice. He is also Director in Projects & Infrastructure and in the Corporate & Commercial practice. Johan is a banking and finance lawyer with years of experience in the domestic and international debt markets where he practiced as a leading transacting lawyer with preeminent commercial law firms in London and Johannesburg. His field of specialisation includes acquisition and leveraged finance, private equity fund financings, project and infrastructure finance, commercial real estate finance, asset and structured finance, general syndicated debt and capital restructure transactions where he has worked on several of market-leading transactions in these areas.

Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr

Johann Scholtz

Partner

Webber Wentzel

Johannes Gouws

DLA Piper

Johannes Smit

Partner

Webber Wentzel

John Bellew

Head of Private Equity

Bowmans

John Foster

John Foster is a Trade Mark Attorney with BCom (Law) and LLB degrees. He is an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa. John specialises in domestic and foreign trade mark prosecution and trade mark, copyright and unlawful competition litigation. This includes trade mark oppositions, trade mark and copyright infringement claims, domain name disputes and company name objections. John has a keen interest in advertising law and has been involved in numerous litigious matters before various advertising regulatory bodies, in South Africa and various African countries. He regularly provides advertising pre-clearance advice to a number of multinational companies. John also deals with commercial IP transactions, licensing arrangements and due diligence investigations.

Spoor & Fisher

John Gillmer

John is a Director in our Corporate & Commercial practice and Joint Sector Head for the Private Equity sector. He specialises in the formation of investment funds and structuring of financial products. John has advised and acted for local and international financial institutions, including banks, private equity and hedge fund managers, long term insurers and investors seeking to invest in various investment funds. His expertise in investment funds includes advising on fund and product structuring and related regulatory aspects including the Banks Act, the Collective Investment Schemes Control Act, the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act, the Pension Funds Act, the Long-Term Insurance Act, the Financial Markets Act and exchange control regulations.

Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr

John McKnight

Prof. John McKnight is a Patent Attorney with Spoor & Fisher. He has BSc (Hons) and LLB degrees and is an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa. He is also a Chartered Patent Attorney in the United Kingdom, a European Patent Attorney and a Solicitor of England & Wales (non-practising). With over three decades of experience in domestic and international patent and design matters, John specialises in the filing of applications in the chemical, biochemical and pharmaceutical fields, and related litigation. He is also proficient in commercial transactions involving IP, including confidentiality, joint development, supply, licensing and technology transfer agreements. As a former Deputy Head of Patents at Reckitt Benckiser in the UK, John has experience of both registered and unregistered IP rights in the Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) environment.

Spoor & Fisher

John Webber

John Webber is a Director of our Real Estate practice. He specialises in transactions related to commercial property, development of land and land use conversion, specifically from mining/agricultural to residential or industrial use, and all commercial transactions related thereto. Additionally, has a long and established commitment to the low cost and affordable housing sector.

Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr

Jon Forman

Partner

Webber Wentzel

Jonathan Barnes

Partner

Bowmans

Jonathan Behr

Director at Werksmans Attorneys

Werksmans Attorneys

Jonathan Ripley-Evans

Partner, Johannesburg

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP