Johan Du Toit Sc Email & Phone Number

 In a career spanning more than 40 years Johan handled complex high profile cases in South Africa and England. Having practised both in England and South Africa and written on the law of both jurisdictions, he is uniquely equipped to apply an integrated practical and theoretical knowledge of South African and English Company Law in the UK, South Africa and many sub-Saharan African countries.This theoretical and practical experience found expression through several publications in respected law journals, but particularly by co-authoring the second edition of 'Shareholder Actions' (Bloomsbury Professional, December 2017) stating the law in England, Australia, Canada and South Africa as at 1 November 2017 – a seminal work on directors’ duties and liabilities and concomitant shareholder rights - see www.bloomsburyprofessional.com/uk/shareholder-actions-9781784518868.He acted on behalf of major organisations in various disciplines amongst which financial markets, resources/mining, agriculture, investment, insurance, education, local government, pharmaceutical and construction. He appeared in more than 50 South African reported judgments; more than 20 of them having been referred to in more than 18 textbooks and other works of reference; considerably more than 50 references were made to these in subsequent judgments.In England, between 2010-2013, he performed comprehensive preparatory work for a class action on behalf of the only group of Lloyds TSB shareholders in the UK and the USA pursuing claims for damages against the directors of Lloyds TSB on grounds of alleged misleading information provided in a prospectus and circular motivating shareholder approval for the takeover of HBOS in late 2008. It involved a wide range of complex company law and governance issues and establishing the facts. The matter has been recognised as one of the top 20 most high-profile cases heard in 2017 in the UK. Judgment pending.

Listed skills include Arbitration, Dispute, Legal Advice, Commercial Litigation, and 18 others.

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  Sentraal, Bloemfontein

  Banking, Corporate, Finance, And Securities Law