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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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Asset for share transactions – beware of selling your shares within 18 months especially in the context of a share buy-back
To prevent tax considerations from discouraging the incorporation of a business, a specific form of ‘rollover relief’ is available when an asset [...]
A new era dawns – criminalisation of cartel conduct
On 22 April 2016, a Presidential Proclamation (“Proclamation”) appeared in the Government Gazette which confirmed that the provisions contained in [...]
The employer’s responsibility during the transfer of an employee
Senne and others v Fleet Africa [2016] ZALCJHB 48 ISSUE One of the automatic consequences of a transfer in [...]
Contracts of temporary employment services employees
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SCA judgments: Capstone & Kluh
In our November 2014 edition of Legalwerks, we discussed the decisions of the Full Bench of the High Court of [...]
Property buyers may be liable for historical debt
In a recent judgement handed down by the Supreme Court of Appeal, the court ruled that a hypothec created by [...]
