Legal updates and opinions

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 [...]

Land reform, restitution and redistribution have received elevated impetus and focus in South Africa. In September 2018, President Ramaphosa announced the appointment of a ten-member expert [...]

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

Land reform, restitution and redistribution have received elevated impetus and focus in South Africa. In September 2018, President Ramaphosa announced the appointment of a ten-member expert [...]

Please join us as we discuss recent developments in B-BBEE and the impact on your business when applying the B-BBEE Act and Codes of Good Practice. [...]

On Friday August 29, directors Pieter Steyn, Dylan Cunard and Irma-Dalene Gouws presented a BEE seminar entitled: Unpacking the significant implications for business of the latest amendments [...]

On 29 June 2017 the Minister of Health published the final White Paper containing the proposals for the construction of a national health insurance scheme entitled [...]

Like many other industries in the world and in South Africa, the construction and engineering sectors are facing challenges in the current economic climate. With new [...]

DISSECTING FACTS FROM FICTION With only three months left before the all-important ANC Policy Conference, issues of policy stability and certainty remain the focal point to [...]

Please join us for a discussion around the latest developments in fund regulation in South Africa and major international fund jurisdictions. Topics include: The Financial Sector [...]

The environmental impacts, and associated risks and liabilities, arising from contaminated land present one of the most complex scientific and legal challenges of our time and [...]

Werksmans will be hosting our upcoming labour seminar where we will be considering implications of recent amendments within the dynamic field of labour law for employers [...]

Thami has been the Deputy Head of the Commission on Restitution of Land Rights since 2011. Prior to that he was the Head of Legal Support [...]

Doing business in Africa is associated with diverse challenges and risks and must accordingly be founded on a strong legal base. Werksmans is a founding member [...]

Werksmans Attorneys held a seminar on Wednesday, April 9 2014, entitled Unlocking the why, the how and the who of POPI. The seminar looked at the Protection of [...]

Werksmans will be hosting our upcoming labour seminar where we will be considering implications of recent amendments within the dynamic field of labour law for employers [...]

"The Land Question" continues to be the subject of intensive debate in South Africa. Land reform, one of governments’ main transformatory programmes, has itself been transformed [...]