Corporate and commercial attorney specialising in mergers and acquisitions, all aspects of contracts, takeovers, structuring of transactions, trusts, commercial litigation and healthcare law.

Consulting specializing in legal, corporate, commercial, regulatory & healthcare.

My key performance areas of responsibility at the Clicks Group included:• Managing all commercial, litigation and corporate legal action• Drafting and/or perusing and initiating complex commercial and operational agreements and documents • Advising on appropriate transaction structures• Embedding within the business the standardization of contracts to ensure consistency of application across the range of commercial transactions• Managing group trademarks and other IP issues• Managing Group insurance issues and risks• Overseeing responsibility for the company secretarial and governance functions and the company secretarial department, taking responsibility for JSE compliance, liaising with corporate sponsors, attending board meetings and meetings of sub-committees of the board, inducting new directors, overseeing agenda preparation and minutes, ensuring effective maintenance of statutory records as is required by the Companies Act• Advising the Group Executive and the board on strategy and on pharmacy / healthcare law issues interacting with the Department of Health, the Medicines Control Council and the South African Pharmacy Council• Consulting with and offer professional advice and expertise to the Compliance Officer and Internal Audit Department regarding management of process and new or changed legislation• Coordinating and developing Group input in response to proposed legal or regulatory changes in order to minimise adverse impacts on Group• Communicating new and relevant legislation to the business and board, and managing the implementation of such changes within the organization • Ensuring that appropriate structures and processes are in place for the board and management in order to ensure good governance

During my five years at Routledge Modise inc Eversheds I advised on:• Commercial transactions (all aspects) / corporate (mergers and acquisitions) • Capital gains tax , acquisitions and disposals, tax structuring for acquisitions and disposals• Business rescues / turnarounds and re-organisation• Trusts and estate planning including trust restructuring (head of firm's trust's department)• Liquidations / schemes of arrangements, insolvency, bankruptcy • Shareholder disputes and contractual disputes• Commercial, company law and contract based litigation I also lectured to attorneys on trusts and business entities and contracting (at RM law school). I was also the Head of firm’s healthcare sector with responsibilities for establishing sector and local and international healthcare sector marketing.

During the 20 years I spent at Sloot Broido Attorneys I specialised in commercial law, agreements (special interests include: shareholders, sale of business (all entities),franchising, trading terms, licensing, leases, sale of shares, association, I.T., restraint of trade, suretyships, distributorships, constitutions, partnerships) franchising set-up, music industry law, film industry law, commercial litigation, wills, tax and trusts, trademarks, copyright disputes, passing-off, labour, structures, liquidations, insolvency, mergers and acquisitions, capital gains tax, computer law, labour arbitrations. specialised in year 2000 (Y2K) legal issues representing interests of multi-national companies.

Specialising in commercial law, commercial litigation and liquidations.