We offer a wide range of legal services, ensuring that our team-based approach delivers innovative, practical and cost-effective solutions to our clients. With offices in Durban, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Pietermaritzburg and Richards Bay, we offer accessible and complete legal services to a diverse client base. Local and international affiliations further extend our representation throughout Southern Africa, Europe and North America.
Our leadership team comprised of Sifiso Msomi, Chairperson of the Board, and Joint Managing Partners, Samantha Davidson and Anton Lockem, underscores the firm’s depth of expertise and clear vision for the future while reinforcing a continued commitment to excellence, transformation and diversity within the legal profession.
The Competition Appeal Court issued a rare adverse costs order against the Competition Commission for acting ultra vires by issuing a divestiture directive against African Rainbow Capital (ARC) following the Fresh Produce Market Inquiry, and threatening that non-compliance with the directive could result in the Commission applying to the Competition Tribunal to make the divestiture directive an order.
South African businesses navigating merger applications and compliance frameworks are well-acquainted with the Competition Commission’s rigorous focus on transformation. This mandate is most visible in the merger space, where the Commission routinely requires merging parties to implement employee share ownership programmes (ESOPs) or transactions involving historically disadvantaged persons (HDPs) to promote a greater spread of ownership.
In a recent US case, United States v. Heppner (No. 1:25 cr 00503 JSR), decided in the New York District Court, the court was asked to deal with a very modern legal question: what happens when someone involved in a criminal investigation communicates with a publicly available AI platform? More specifically, are those communications protected by the attorney-client privilege?
In today’s interconnected global economy, South African businesses frequently transact with international related parties. While these cross-border arrangements are essential for market alignment and growth, they fall squarely under the oversight of the South African Revenue Service (“SARS”) in terms of Section 31 of the Income Tax Act.
Notice 7419 of 2026
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A Career at Shepstone & Wylie
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