Joining Attacq a month before its listing on the JSE Stock Exchange, South Africa, I was involved in the cleaning up of the company structure/organogram and assisting with the drafting of Attacq’s prospectus. • Leading legislation compliance and assisting the first line of defence compliance officers with drafting of policies• Encouraging employee development, training employees on relevant topics and facilitating external advisor training on more specialised legal topics• Implementing anti-corruption measures at Attacq, including:­ Annual policy update­ Drafting a code of ethics for our external stakeholders (in progress)­ Integrating the above into the day to day engagements by Attacq staff with external stakeholders• Ensuring that property disposals and acquisitions are structured best and efficient from a tax, commercial perspective• Drafting and executing agreements; providing general legal advice to the group; maintaining a database of agreements. This means not only drafting the agreements but drafting implementation schedules; discussing same with the various teams and by using Microsoft Planner to ensure timeous compliance of agreements• Liaising with outside legal advisors including drafting of briefs; maintaining relationships with legal advisors of business partners of Attacq• Heading up the legal team, consisting of myself, two other attorneys and a legal assistant• Completing contribution plans and personal development plans for the staff, as well as playing a mentoring role to them. In regular team meetings we agree on outcomes and timelines of projects necessary for Attacq.

• Leading company restructurings using the company re-organisation provisions in the Income Tax Act coupled with the new Companies Act, 2008. I managed training for clients on the provisions of the then new Companies Act, focusing on corporate governance and directors’ duties under the Act. I did bespoke memoranda of incorporation and shareholders’ agreements based on the new Companies Act substituting these for clients’ existing articles of association. I did company secretarial work for a number of clients• Once advising a client on corporate restructuring, I would draft the agreements myself. This would entail sales of goings concerns (including property sales), sale of shares agreements, shareholders’ agreements, partnership agreements etc. I would also draft implementation sheets for clients and would draft supporting documents to give effect to the agreements post implementation • I was involved in tax work with special focus on the implications of the newly introduced Tax Administration Act, 2011• I lectured as a sabbatical tax lecturer tax law for the LLB students at the University of the Witwatersrand. My duties entailed summarising the relevant tax provisions in the Income Tax Act, 1962 and VAT Act, 1991 as well as applicable tax judgments. I prepared lecture notes for the students and then lectured a very abstract field of law• As part of the tax advice, I continued to advise clients on local estate planning including drafting of trust deeds and amending same as and when the law involved through case law. I was involved in estate planning including drafting of wills and testamentary trusts. I also held office as independent trustee on a number of my clients’ personal trusts. • I expanded my practice to also undertake administration of deceased estates. From having the first interview with clients, collating documents, drafting and finalising liquidation and distribution accounts, finalising tax affairs and final pay-outs.

• Drafting of commercial contracts i.e. sale agreements (properties, going concerns, shares), shareholder agreements• Structuring of black economic empowerment transactions; implementing schemes of arrangement in terms of section 311 of the Old Companies Act; general company law and assisting clients with company secretarial work; • Tax law including advising clients on tax consequences of transactions; drafting of objections against assessments issued by SARS; liaising with SARS officials at Megawatt Park Regional Office and Head Office; seeing matters through to hearing at the Tax Court and on appeal. Henry Vorster appeared personally in the Tax Court as well as Supreme Court of Appeal and as such I assisted him with the drafting of heads of argument and general research. In undertaking tax law work, I gained extensive knowledge on constitutional law and its impact in the tax environment. My dissertation in partial compliance of my H.Dip Tax was headed “The Promotion of Administrative Justice Act and Constitution as watchdogs of the Commissioner’s powers under the Income Tax Act and the VAT Act”• Administering trusts, first in an advisory capacity, and later on as a trustee on a number of clients’ trusts. Assisting with clients’ estate planning including drafting of wills and testamentary trusts• Providing training on the duties of trustees• Assisting the legal practitioner involved with the administration of deceased estates in doing preliminary interviews with clients, collating information and placing of the required advertisements• Drafting simple liquidation and distributions accounts and assisted with general administration matters

• Involved in the founding of the LCC (a circuit court), responsible for drafting the practice manual of the LCC relating to the layout of judgments, and assisting Judge Gildenhuys in drafting of the court rules.• Managed legal cases until a Registrar was appointed and arranged pre-trial conferences, took minutes and acted as a translator from Afrikaans to English for two hearings .• During my Legal Researcher appointment, I was responsible for editing judgments prior to judgment finalisation, and preparing summaries prior to sending the judgements for publication.• Whilst the LCC is in circuit, as a judge’s registrar I was responsible for the logistical arrangements for a hearing, including the arrangement of recordings; pre-trials, flight bookings; the court files; collating of evidence etc.

• Started my career with Dr Gildenhuys and followed him to the Land Claims Court when he was appointed as a judge• As a Paralegal to Dr Gildenhuys (legal executive), I was responsible for typing through Dictaphone dictation; managing his diary; making travel arrangements; assisting with basic legal research; and managing his practice’s debt collections. • Dr Gildenhuys was chairperson of the National Peace Secretariat prior the South Africa’s first democratic elections and facilitated discussions between various political parties. I attended and minuted these discussions.