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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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The test for merger specificity restated and endorsed
As part of the merger notification process, merging parties must disclose whether the merger will or even has caused job [...]
Half-baked challenge by employees dismissed for testing positive for cannabis at work
In a 2018 judgement by the Constitutional Court, the highest Court in the land effectively decriminalised the private use, cultivation [...]
Triumph for liquidators: Courts setting aside and declaring specious transactions void
by Tandiwe Matshebela, Director, Tebello Mosoeu, Associate, and Zoë Austen, Candidate Attorney Added to the liquidators' responsibility and duty to [...]
Considering the competition law implication of crypto currency and regulation one ought to say – Competition Commission start running!
The cryptocurrency sector is innovative and fast-moving. Cryptocurrency and crypt exchanges are attracting a lot of focus also as Crypto [...]
Too good to be true? What about your privacy?
It is common cause that the tech-bug has bitten us all (almost), and the evolution of the mobile application ("mobile [...]
Should there be limits on the extent to which personal information of a company’s shareholders are available to the public?
Section 26(2) of the Companies Act 71 of 2008 ("Companies Act") provides that any person has the right to access [...]