Commercial and corporate

This service is for business owners, founders, directors, shareholders, executives, and operating companies that need practical legal support for commercial decisions, governance, operational agreements, restructuring, risk allocation, or business relationships.

1. Shareholder, director, founder, and governance arrangements.
2. Supplier, customer, reseller, vendor, distribution, and operational agreements.
3. Business sale, asset sale, restructuring, authority, and implementation support.
4. Board decisions, resolutions, undertakings, notices, and commercial correspondence.
5. Commercial risk review before signing or after a business relationship starts failing.

1. Commercial document review and drafting within the agreed scope.
2. Risk notes, negotiation comments, and implementation checklists.
3. Governance and authority support linked to the transaction.
4. Practical drafting of resolutions, undertakings, schedules, notices, and correspondence.

1. Tax, audit, accounting, exchange-control, B-BBEE, competition, or specialist regulatory advice unless separately briefed.
2. Financial modelling, valuation, due diligence beyond agreed legal scope, or business strategy consulting.
3. Advice to unrepresented counterparties or conflicted parties.
4. Guarantees that a counterparty will accept proposed terms.

1. Company details, ownership structure, directors, shareholders, and decision-makers.
2. Existing agreements, resolutions, policies, financial terms, and correspondence.
3. The business objective, negotiation posture, deadlines, and non-negotiable terms.
4. Known disputes, payment defaults, governance deadlocks, withheld performance, or relationship risks.
5. Draft transaction documents, term sheets, offer letters, board packs, or shareholder instructions.

1. Scope the transaction, parties, authority, and business objective.
2. Review current documents, factual assumptions, and risk allocation.
3. Confirm legal route, mandate, fee basis, and deliverables.
4. Draft, revise, or negotiate the necessary legal documents.
5. Support signing, implementation, and next-step controls.

Responsible attorney

Gerhard Human

Last reviewed

2026-05-22

Area of law

Commercial law, Corporate law

1. The instructing person may lack authority to bind the company.
2. Commercial terms may be uncertain, incomplete, or inconsistent with operational reality.
3. A counterparty may resist risk allocation, delay signature, or change commercial terms.
4. Tax, accounting, employment, exchange-control, or regulatory issues may need separate advice.
5. A document cannot fix a business model that the parties do not intend to follow.

No outcome is guaranteed. Advice depends on the documents, facts, timing, legal position, opponent conduct, and the scope accepted in writing.

This page is general legal information for South African context. It does not create an attorney-client relationship. Work begins after conflict checks, FICA where required, scope confirmation and written mandate acceptance.