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Walking the Tightrope of Financial Distress – Challenges for directors of financially distressed companies in a COVID-19 World The COVID-19 is a human tragedy of enormous [...]

CLICK HERE TO RSVP We are currently undergoing a proposed paradigm shift in the provision of healthcare services in South Africa in the face of the [...]

The President has announced that POPIA will commence on 1 July 2020. This means all affected organisations must comply with the Act within 12 months or [...]

Join Director Michael Honiball and other speakers for a webinar, discussing South African and Israeli tax, financial and wealth planning opportunities. South Africans immigrating to Israel [...]

With the ongoing ravages of Covid-19, the leisure industry continues to take a pounding in the South African market, with many businesses having had no option [...]

With the ongoing ravages of Covid-19, the leisure industry continues to take a pounding in the South African market. Dr. Eric Levenstein, Head of our Insolvency, [...]

Unpacking Key Legislation Land Reform & Mining in South Africa Wednesday 24 November 2021 | 9:00am  Land reform and mining continues to evolve and dominate as [...]

Healthcare & Life Sciences Recent developments in the healthcare and life sciences sector Thursday, 17 February 2022 | 8:30am We unpack a recent judgement concerning a [...]

The Interplay Between Cultural Heritage, Land, and the Environment The past two years of the pandemic have exposed some of South Africa's dire legislative and socio-economic [...]

Navigating the legal crosswinds affecting the construction industry The challenges facing the construction industry started long before the pandemic-induced sector slump which hampered operations across the [...]

Navigating the legal crosswinds affecting the construction industry The challenges facing the construction industry started long before the pandemic-induced sector slump which hampered operations across the [...]

Is privacy a debate worth having? 1 June 2023 |  Please RSVP by 29 May 2023 Globally, we've seen an exponential increase in data breaches followed by [...]

Healthcare & Life Sciences Seminar Invitation | 8 June 2023 Please join us for a seminar where our panel of experts will explore the prevailing trends [...]

We are pleased to invite you to our upcoming employment seminar. RSVP HERE With the constantly changing employment laws and regulations, it can be challenging for [...]

South Africa and the world face economic fallout. COVID-19 has imposed extremely difficult trading conditions on South African companies like never before. These unprecedented events will [...]

SEMINAR INVITATION | CLICK HERE TO RSVP As the world rapidly shifts towards sustainable practices and cleaner energy solutions in response to increasing concerns around climate [...]

IS YOUR E-COMMERCE BUSINESS COMPLIANT? In a very competitive economic climate, with alternatives just a convenient click away, companies can hardly afford not to be online [...]

The exponential increase in data breaches globally highlights the threat to both company and customer data. Understanding compliance and best practice data management, incident preparedness and [...]

Despite data indicating an upward trend, the construction industry remains under scrutiny and in the headlines for all the wrong reasons – most notably the finalisation [...]

Werksmans Attorneys is pleased to invite you to join our annual investment funds law seminar where we will be delving into the recently announced Conduct of [...]

Environmental law is a morass of regulations, laws, statutes, by-laws, guidelines and directives. However, environmental law remains an important part of business operations in so far [...]

BUSINESS RESCUE - PREDICT, PREPARE AND PRESERVE Business rescue has become commonplace in South Africa and remains a robust and highly creative procedure for rescuing financially [...]

On September 18, Werksmans and guest speaker Advocate Anton Myburgh SC presented a labour seminar which looked at the year 2014 in the context of protracted [...]

We welcome 2019 with fundamental shifts and changes in regulation governing healthcare and life sciences law in South Africa. Please join us for a seminar where [...]

Werksmans Attorneys has for the past two decades, been at the centre and cusp of the Land Question, having successfully represented large-scale landowners, funders, investors, claimant [...]