02 — Matters
The evidence, rather than the claim.
Everything else on this site is something we say about ourselves. This is a list of work actually done, anonymised, with values where the client has agreed to them.
2026
Manufacturing
Acted for a Gauteng component manufacturer on a three-year supply agreement with a listed automotive customer, including the liability cap the customer had never previously conceded.
R240m
Professional services
Restructured the shareholding of a six-partner engineering practice, including a buy-sell mechanism funded by policy, after one partner gave notice.
Confidential
Technology
Rewrote the enterprise terms of a payments business after a bank procurement review returned eleven pages of objections. Nine were conceded on our first response.
Confidential
2025
Retail and franchising
Defended a franchisee against cancellation of a franchise agreement in the High Court; settled on terms permitting an orderly sale of the outlet.
R18m
Technology
Advised a software business on its Series A, including the IP assignment position left over from three years of contractor development.
R65m
Retail and franchising
Recovered arrear rental and rates from a national tenant across four retail centres, without terminating a lease the landlord wanted to keep.
R9.4m
Agriculture
Acted on the sale of a Free State grain farm held in a family trust, including the separate treatment of the water use entitlement the buyer had not asked about.
R41m
2024
Agriculture
Negotiated a ten-year offtake agreement for a citrus producer, including the force majeure clause that was tested two seasons later.
Confidential
Manufacturing
Defended an uncapped consequential loss claim brought by a customer under terms signed before we were instructed. Settled at under four per cent of the amount claimed.
R2.1m claim
Professional services
Enforced a restraint of trade against a departing director who had taken two clients and a price list. Interdict granted within eleven days.
Confidential
On this list
Three things worth saying about it.
Why they are anonymised
They are our clients’ matters, not ours. A commercial client does not want its supply terms, its shareholder fight or its claim discussed on an attorney’s website, and a firm that would publish yours will publish theirs.
Why the values are there
Because "acted on a significant transaction" means nothing. Where a client has agreed we give the figure; where they have not we say confidential rather than invent a range.
What is not on this list
The matters we lost, the ones that settled badly, and the ones where we were replaced. Ask us about those on the call. We will answer.
Ask us for a reference.
We will put you on the telephone to a client in your sector who has been through something close to what you are facing.