Lawyers in South Africa

Kirsty Kilner

Partner

Webber Wentzel

Kirsty Simpson

DLA Piper

Kuda Chimedza

Kuda Chimedza is a Director in our Banking, Finance & Projects practice working in most areas of finance including project finance, corporate finance, debt restructuring, deal/investment structuring, and in corporate and commercial law.

Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr

Kyle Fyfe

Senior Associates

Werksmans Attorneys

Lana Stockton

Partner

Bowmans

Lance Abramson

Lance Abramson is a Patent Attorney and has BSc (Elec Eng) and BProc degrees. He is an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa. Lance has over two decades of experience, with a focus on domestic and international patent and design matters, including the preparation and prosecution of patent and design applications. He is an expert patent attorney, specialising in the filing of applications in the electrical, electronic, software and nanotechnology fields, and related litigation.

Spoor & Fisher

Lara Kahn

Partner

Webber Wentzel

Laura Alexander

Senior Associate

Werksmans Attorneys

Laura Kelly

Laura is a partner at Cox Yeats where she focuses on International Trade, Energy, Insurance and Business Law. Her practice includes litigious work, acting for entities in our lower and supreme courts, but is focused primarily on commercial and contractual work and the provision of general in-house legal counsel services. Laura provides professional support and advice to numerous large organisations operating within South Africa and abroad. Her International Trade Law practice consists primarily of assisting logistics companies with the drafting, negotiation, and interpretation of industry specific agreements, such as warehousing, supply, transport/carriage, stevedoring and general trading terms and conditions. Within the energy law field, she has a particular focus on petroleum law and has advised on numerous complex and high-value petroleum storage and handling contracts with most of South Africa’s oil majors as well as wholesalers. She also assists clients with their engagements with stakeholders and regulatory authorities such as Transnet, the National Energy Regulator of South Africa and the Department of Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs. Laura’s insurance practice focuses on general insurance work, where she assists and advises a number of insurers in respect of policy responses, policy defences and complex indemnity claims and recoveries. In 2021 she was nominated by Standard Bank and KZN Top Business as one of the Top 30 Businesswomen in Kwa-Zulu Natal and in 2022 Laura was ranked as a 'Recommended Lawyer' by the Legal 500.

Cox Yeats

Lavashnee Mandry

Lavashnee is a senior associate in the Property Department.

Adams & Adams

Leanne Mostert

Partner

Webber Wentzel

Lebo Ramokone

Of Counsel, Johannesburg

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Lebogang Makwela

Lebogang Makwela is a Director in our Dispute Resolution practice and in the Corporate & White-Collar Investigations sector. With over a decade long experience spanning auditing, forensic accounting, and public sector leadership, Lebogang has continuously demonstrated her ability to lead complex financial investigations with precision and integrity. Her career reflects a deep commitment to ethical leadership and governance.

Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr

Lebohang Mabidikane

Lebohang has extensive experience in evaluating the competitive and public interest effects of mergers, conducting investigations of cartel and abuse of dominance conduct, assessing exemption applications and leading search and seizure operations. She has also provided training and commentary to other African competition regulators and provided input on the legislative framework for, and enforcement of, competition law in several other African jurisdictions. Lebohang has a deep understanding of a broad range of sectors including agriculture, aviation, healthcare, logistics, petroleum, mining, fast moving consumer goods, banking and retail. She has handled a number of complex and high-profile matters for clients in both South Africa and other African jurisdictions. Lebohang also has experience in public and municipal financial management and has advised various South African state-owned entities and litigated on behalf of municipalities.

Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr

Leigh Lambrechts

Partner

Webber Wentzel

Lenee Green

Partner

Webber Wentzel

Lerato Lamola

Partner

Webber Wentzel

Lerato Thahane

Partner

Bowmans

Lerisha Naidu

Lerisha Naidu is the managing partner and head of Baker McKenzie's Antitrust & Competition Practice Group in Johannesburg. She acts on a diverse array of matters across various industries spanning several African jurisdictions. Lerisha advises and represents international and domestic clients in mergers and acquisitions, prohibited practices (including cartel-related matters), and compliance and risk mitigation. She has appeared before the Competition Tribunal of South Africa in merger proceedings, and has also worked on matters relating to clients involved in Tribunal proceedings. Lerisha has acted in several high-profile matters involving industry-wide and global cartels (eg. in the construction, aviation and gas industries), interim relief applications, contested mergers and dawn raids. She has also participated in a number of compliance initiatives, including training sessions for firms' employees related to competition risk mitigation. Lerisha was named Southern Africa Partner of the Year at the African Legal Awards in 2023 - cited for the legal excellence, innovation and leadership that embodies her work. She was also acknowledged on the 2019 list of 100 Most Influential Young South Africans as well as the Mail & Guardian list of Top 200 Young South Africans, and was commended in the Partner of the Year Private Practice category at the African Legal Awards in 2021. Lerisha also leads the Diversity and Inclusion portfolio in Johannesburg, as well as its pro bono and corporate social responsibility pillars.

Baker McKenzie Johannesburg

Leroux Odendaal

Partner

Webber Wentzel

Lesetja Morapi

Of Counsel, Johannesburg

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Leslie de Bruyn

Partner

Webber Wentzel

Letitia Field

Director

ENSafrica

Lilia Franca

Partner

Webber Wentzel