MRT Law offers a wide range of expert legal services in the areas of corporate and commercial laws and specializes in representing corporations with diverse business interests in South Africa. With the pool of lawyers, company secretaries and other professionals, the Firm is professionally equipped to handle small, medium and large sized and complex corporate transactions like Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Restructuring, Joint Ventures, Inbound & Outbound Investments, Private Equity and Venture Capital Investment Transactions, Real Estate Transactions, Infrastructure Projects, Project Finance, Power Projects, Non-Conventional Energy Projects, Highways & Road Projects, Corporate Taxation, etc.
Our Services
CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL
We assist in navigating compliance with the Companies Act, 2008 for your company and value generating corporate restructuring, structures, transactions, and drafting, negotiating commercial contracts tailored for your business. We discuss our fees upfront, are transparent with our costs and give you the most cost-effective solutions for your business.
We offer:
• Companies Act, 2008 and the King Reports on corporate governance
• Company and business sales/purchases, formations and structuring
• Drafting, negotiating, and reviewing all forms of commercial and business contracts
• Due diligence investigations (corporate and commercial)
• Business advisory/rescue, restructuring and insolvency
• Joint ventures, small and medium mergers, and acquisitions
• Share incentive scheme, BBBEE implementation and legal compliance
REGULATORY COMPLIANCE
We assist and guide your business with its legal compliance requirement and regulations that are industry specific, to ensure efficiency and growth for your business. Allow us to investigate, manage and mitigate the risk for your business and have the peace-of-mind that all your legal compliance and regulatory needs will be taken care of while you focus on your business.
We offer:
• Legal compliance
• Industry specific regulatory compliance
• Tailored Legal opinions
• Administrative and public law
• BBEEE compliance
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
We assist with filing and registration of your most valued ideas, brand, logos, and designs. Let us protect your intellectual property allowing you to have the peace of mind of having your most valuable and sensitive resources well protected.
We offer:
• Trademark registrations
• Patent registrations; and
• Design registrations.
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
We handle all commercial and corporate disputes for your business ranging from breach of contract, shareholder disputes, administrative and public law, corporate governance failures, liquidation etc. We guide you through every stage of the process. We assess your matter with careful consideration of all aspects before acting, in order to ensure that we adopt the right strategy to meet your expectations.
We offer:
• Advising and representation on alternative dispute resolution processes (High Court, Supreme Court of Appeal and Constitutional Court).
• Advise and represent clients in settlement negotiations.
• Assist and represent client with administrative appeals in relation to decisions by regulatory bodies.
BUSINESS RESCUE, RESTRUCTURING & INSOLVENCY
Our restructuring, business rescue and insolvency lawyers work closely with you and your team to implement the most effective strategies when restructuring your business; and can competently advise directors, stakeholders, employees and creditors during all stages of a restructure, business rescue process and/or liquidation.
We offer:
• Advising on all aspects of formal restructuring procedures such as business rescue, liquidations
• Advising on fiduciary duties during periods of financial distress and restructurings
• Advising on capital and cashflow recovery and debt collection procedures
• Advising on distressed merger and acquisition-related transactions
• Advising on the management of claims in the liquidation process
PROPERTY LAW
We deal with commercial transactions involving property portfolios, transfer of properties and property developments. We have conveyancers and property expert to advise and transfer your property seamlessly and with understanding of your needs in the transaction.
• Conveyancing and lease agreements;
• Commercial and residential property sale agreements;
• Commercial and residential property developments;
• Sales of shares agreements in property holding companies;
• Structuring and planning of property business acquisitions;
• Registration of land consolidations and subdivisions.
• Debt and equity financing options;
• Opening of sectional title registers;
DATA PROTECTION
The Protection of Personal Information Act (the POPI Act or POPIA) is now here and expert guidance will be needed by start-ups and corporates alike, in properly assimilating the details of the Act and all the implications contained therein. We guide your business through the ever-changing complexities of data protection in South Africa and beyond South African borders.
We offer:
• Development of security and privacy policies, best practices and procedures;
• Privacy policies for organizations and their websites;
• Data security, privacy and technology regulatory response and litigation;
• Cybersecurity and privacy contract development and negotiation;
• Ensuring data privacy and security during mergers and acquisitions.
LABOUR LAW DEPARTMENT
We offer a wide range of legal services in this specialised area of law. Our labour law expert has the expertise and experience to provide comprehensive legal advice on a variety of labour law matters. We are well equipped to provide services to both employers and employees.
We offer:
• Draft employment contracts
• Provide training to human resources staff on labour legislation
• Chair disciplinary hearings, advice and facilitate in restructuring and retrenchment proceedings
• Launch and defend disputes at the Labour Court and Labour Appeal Court
• Enforce restraint of trade agreements and draft workplace policies and procedures
• Launch and defend disputes (unfair dismissals, unfair labour practices and unilateral changes of employment conditions) at the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) and at the various Bargaining Councils
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