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.
Special Economic Zones (SEZs) exist for one reason: to encourage investment. By offering qualifying companies a reduced corporate income tax rate of 15%, South Africa sought to make designated manufacturing and industrial hubs more attractive to investors. Yet, like many tax incentives, the concession has always carried a concern—how do you encourage genuine investment without opening the door to artificial profit shifting?
Every business decision carries commercial risk and most businesspeople appreciate that obtaining a professional tax opinion before implementing a significant transaction is prudent. What is less well known is that competent tax advice may also protect a taxpayer against understatement penalties if SARS later proves that the advice was legally wrong.
South African regulatory authorities such as the South African Revenue Service (SARS), the Border Management Authority (BMA), including the State Vet, the National Consumer Commission (NCC), and the National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications (NRCS), are entrusted with extensive powers to enforce compliance with legislation.
Does the right to adequate housing include the right to be housed in a particular area? Two adjacent erven located in Sea Point, Cape Town, were at the core of a 10-year dispute involving this complex question.
Notice 4083 of 2026
Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla has returned to the Durban High Court for her trial
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