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SAFM Market Update: Cross Trainer Enters Business Rescue
Dr. Eric Levenstein, Director and Head of our Insolvency & Business Rescue practice area, had a discussion with Jimmy Moyaha of SAFM about the markets reaction to Cross Trainer going under business rescue and the current status of the business rescue mechanism in South Africa.
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Exchange control relaxations for Intellectual Property transactions
INTRODUCTION In the recent 2017 Budget Review, the National Treasury proposed the relaxation of the exchange control restrictions surrounding [...]
Merger thresholds in Swaziland and Tanzania – absence of a local Nexus?
It is standard practice for competition regulators, empowered by legislation to monitor and evaluate mergers, to set minimum financial or [...]
.africa domain is here
The long awaited .AFRICA domain name extension will be available as of 3 April 2017 and will be managed by [...]
The National Minimum Wage: a further update
On 8 February 2017, Cyril Ramaphosa, the Deputy President of South Africa, disclosed preliminary details regarding the implementation of a [...]
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all? Most favoured nation clauses from a Competition Law perspective.
Most favoured nation ("MFN") clauses, also known as price parity clauses or most favoured customer clauses, which appear in vertical [...]
Significant changes to government/parastatal procurement regulations promote Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment
New regulations in terms of the Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act ("PPPFA") have been published and will take effect from [...]
