Sidney Pretorius Email & Phone Number

Cape Town

There is no greater strength than the power of will. I was studying computers when a friend asked me: Why do you not become a lawyer? Why, was my response. His answer ‘because you will be a damn good one’. With more than 18 years post legal qualification, I can confirm that he was right.My earliest memory is me, age 4, lying under a broken gramophone, trying to fix it. The drive to fix, organise and solve has never left me. Now, through Legal Spectrum, I put legal, development and organisational skills to use by solving the business, contracts and technical challenges of clients.I had been fortunate to work on government contract processes, complex transactions and bus rapid transit systems. I revel in it. The complexities have re-enforced the importance of being organised, which is my key strength.Except for comedy, I do not daddle much with fiction. I’m a deep and critical thinker, with loads of self-designed life philosophies and theories. I possess an insatiable desire to learn. My interest stretches far and wide: from genetics to astrology; from geology to chemistry; from medicine to everything else.I am a knowledge dynamite. There is much more to me than what meets the cursory eye.All challenges have solutions. All we are required to do is to find it. After engaging with me, you will either have the answer or know how or where to find it.Outside of my professional life, there are few things I take seriously. I was born with natural motivational skills. I’m a stand-up comedian, mostly in my empty lounge. I play more than 10 instruments, but good at none. I enjoy swimming and watching cricket and rugby. I deliver on quality innovative legal and contract solutions. I live to exceed expectations, not meet it. I love life and wish I could have lived forever. Since I can’t, at least my legal and contract solutions will.Drop me a message if you have any interesting thought or idea.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

At the City of Cape Town, I honed my strong management skills. I started off with an under-resourced and understaffed branch with responsibilities that were critical to achieve the strategic public transport objective of the organization. When I left, the branch was restructured and resourced with competent staff.The duty to meet competing critical deadlines for bus rapid transit took my planning skills to the next level. My team and I achieved all the strategic business objectives of MyCiTi, services set for our branch. I enjoyed designing and implementing business improvement systems for bus rapid transit and Dial-A-Ride (specialised transport for persons with disabilities). Landing a project in spec, on time and within budget was a critical delivery. Though challenging at the beginning, I reveled in it. We ran several municipal regulatory framework and legislative processes. These included section 116 of the Municipal Finance Management Act (“MFMA”) processes, s33 MFMA processes, and oversee municipal asset transfer regulation processes.At the time I joined the City of Cape Town, contracts management was in its infancy. I’m proud that when I left, it was one of the key strategic objectives of the organization. With resource constraints, we had to manage complex operational and public transport objectives. By altering our service delivery model, we were able to achieve more with less. Developing and implementing standing operating procedures were critical enablers.We designed service level agreements and master template contracts. Our responsibilities included the development and implementation of high value strategic public transport contracts and stakeholder management plans. Our value preposition was: - recommending practical solutions to challenges to achieve business objectives;- draft and negotiate operational, systems and public transport contracts;- manage contracts dispute settlement processes; and- performance manages services providers.

Cape Town

• Drafting all types and wide range of agreements, including but not limited to sale agreements, indemnity agreements, confidentiality agreements, stakeholder relations, disclaimers, IT agreements, website terms and conditions, distribution agreements, memorandums of incorporation, lease agreements, outsource agreements, agency agreements, shareholder agreements, partnership agreements, sale of shares agreements, mandates, employment contracts, options, funding agreements, sponsorship agreements, undertakings, sale of business agreements, executive contracts, and many more;• researching and Drafting legal opinions;• Advising on various corporate legal transactions;• advising and project-managing management buy-outs;• advising and structuring various risk management strategies;• Advised and structured various M&A transactions; • Liaise with, maintain relationships with and implement corporate legal instructions of in-house legal counsel;• Drafting engagement letters;• reviewing and commenting on complex agreements and transactions; • advising on finance project works; and • licensing agreements

Cape Town

• Drafting all types and wide range of agreements, including but not limited to sale agreements, indemnity agreements, confidentiality agreements, stakeholder relations, disclaimers, IT agreements, distribution agreements, memorandums of incorporation, lease agreements, shareholder agreements, partnership agreements, sale of shares agreements, mandates, undertakings, sale of business agreements, trust deeds, wills, executive contracts, and many more;• Principal: legal research and Drafter of legal opinions;• Negotiated and managed commercial disputes;• Advising on various large corporate legal transactions;• Advised led team on large complex banking and finance transactions;• Advised clients on compliance with consumer legislation;• Managed corporate trials);• Participated in and structured various risk management strategies;• Drafting sub-contracts, closure agreements, manufacturing agreements, cession and pledgte agreements, suretyships, loan agreements, etc.;• Participated in due diligences;• Advised and structured various M&A transactions; • Liaise, maintain relationships with and implement corporate legal instructions of in-house legal counsel;• Drafted master-templates for many clients and companies;• advising on and structuring complex commercial transactions; and • been involved with, structured, managed a wide range of service level agreements, banking and finance, employment related matters, outsourcing arrangements, sale transactions, manufacturing agreement and many more.

Cape Town

• Drafting all types and wide range of agreements, including but not limited to sale agreements, indemnity agreements, confidentiality agreements, stakeholder relations, disclaimers, IT agreements, distribution agreements, memorandums of incorporation, lease agreements, shareholder agreements, partnership agreements, sale of shares agreements, mandates, undertakings, sale of business agreements, trust deeds, wills, executive contracts, and many more;• Principal: legal research and Drafter of legal opinions;• Advised on complex commercial transactions;• Negotiated and managed commercial disputes;• Served as inhouse commercial legal counsel at leading firms;• Advising on various large corporate legal transactions;• Advised led team on large complex banking and finance transactions;• Drafted resolutions, mandates, power of attorneys, engagement letters and briefs;• Advised clients on compliance with consumer legislation;• Advised and represented companies in dispute with various industry regulators;• Managed corporate trials);• Participated in and structured various risk management strategies;• Drafting sub-contracts, closure agreements, manufacturing agreements, cession and pledgte agreements, suretyships, loan agreements, etc.;• Participated in due diligences;• Advised and structured various M&A transactions; • Liaise, maintain relationships with and implement corporate legal instructions of in-house legal counsel;• Drafted master-templates for many clients and companies;• been involved with, structured, managed a wide range of service level agreements, banking and finance, employment related matters, outsourcing arrangements, sale transactions, manufacturing agreement and many more.

Cape Town

• Drafting all types and wide range of agreements, including but not limited to sale agreements, indemnity agreements, confidentiality agreements, stakeholder relations, disclaimers, IT agreements, website terms and conditions, distribution agreements, memorandums of incorporation, lease agreements, outsource agreements, agency agreements, shareholder agreements, partnership agreements, sale of shares agreements, mandates, employment contracts, options, funding agreements, sponsorship agreements, undertakings, sale of business agreements, trust deeds, wills, executive contracts, and many more;• Principal: legal research and Drafter of legal opinions;• Advising on various corporate legal transactions;• Drafted resolutions, mandates, power of attorneys, engagement letters and briefs;• Drafted many sale of asset agreements;• Participated and advised on management buy-outs, stakeholder relations agreements and project management;• Managed corporate trials;• Participated in and structured various risk management strategies;• Advised many clients on business terms;• Drafting sub-contracts, closure agreements, manufacturing agreements, cession and pledge agreements, suretyships, loan agreements, etc.;• Conducted countless number of negotiations;• Advised on and implemented many BBBEE transactions;• Conducted many negotiations and drafted settlement agreements;• reviewing and commenting on proposed agreements; • drafted Royalty and licensing agreements,• been involved with in a wide range of and various other corporate legal advisory and transaction services.

Master'S Degree, Law

Activities and Societies: Cape Law Society

Dip: Business- Law, Securities Law

Cert: Insurance Law

Bachelor'S Degree, Law

Activities and Societies: Cape Law Society LLB

Cert: Switchboard Operating, Telephony

Cert: A-Plus - Computer Technician, It

Cert: Mous, It

Windows, Microsoft Office, Internet, Email

Cert: Introduction To Computers, It

DOS, Word Perfect

Cert: Business Management, Business

High School, High School, Xii