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Jeremy Botha

Jeremy Botha was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Werksmans Attorneys in April 2006. His background was initially financial management and taxation at some of South [...]

By |April 7th, 2025|

David Hertz

David Hertz, Chairman of Werksmans, joined as a Candidate Attorney in 1989. He has been ranked as a leading lawyer in numerous independently-conducted ratings of [...]

By |April 7th, 2025|

Cari Cole-Morgan

Cari Cole-Morgan is a Director at Werksmans and Head of Knowledge Management. From 2000 – 2006 she was a Director, practising in Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions. [...]

By |April 10th, 2025|

Sarah o Brien

Experienced Human Resources Executive with a demonstrated history of working in the professional services industry. Skilled in all aspects of strategic HR including team management, [...]

By |April 10th, 2025|

Ahmore Burger-Smidt

Recognised as the data privacy lawyer of choice for multinational corporations, regulatory bodies, and industry leaders, Ahmore Burger-Smidt brings over 30 years of legal expertise with [...]

By |April 10th, 2025|

Bernard Hotz

Bernard Hotz is the Head of the Business Crimes & Investigations Practice Area. A highly experienced commercial litigator, he is also extremely versatile being active [...]

By |April 10th, 2025|

Bulelwa Mabasa

Bulelwa Mabasa is a Director and Head of the Land Reform Practice. Her expertise is spread across a number of key practice areas which includes the [...]

By |April 10th, 2025|

Candice de Bruin

Candice heads the firm’s business development function which is responsible for client retention, exploring new business opportunities, and developing brand strategies to ensure the firm [...]

By |April 10th, 2025|

Chris Stevens

Chris Stevens is a Director and Head of the Mining & Resources practice area. Chris is deeply skilled in matters relating to due diligence; opinion [...]

By |April 10th, 2025|

Corlett Manaka

Corlett Manaka is Head of Litigation & Dispute Resolution and a member of the Werksmans Inc. Executive Committee. He advises across the practice areas of Business [...]

By |April 10th, 2025|

Dakalo Singo

Dakalo Singo is a Director and Head of the Pro Bono practice. He specialises in constitutional, public interest and human rights law, general dispute resolution [...]

By |April 10th, 2025|

Chris Moraitis

Chris Moraitis is a Director and Head of the Infrastructure & Energy practice area, extending his expertise to Banking & Finance. Chris is a highly-skilled specialist [...]

By |April 10th, 2025|

Danny Andropoulos

Danny Andropoulos is a Director and Head of Werksmans’ Commercial Department. He advises in the Banking & Finance, Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions and Insolvency & Business [...]

By |April 10th, 2025|

Doelie Lessing

Doelie Lessing is a Director and Head of the Tax and Private Wealth practice areas with over 20 years of experience in tax law. She [...]

By |April 10th, 2025|

Elliott Wood

Elliott Wood is a Director and head of the Banking & Finance and Private Equity practice areas. He specialises in banking and finance matters (including acquisition [...]

By |April 10th, 2025|

Eric Levenstein

Eric Levenstein has been a Director of Werksmans Attorneys since 1993 and is the head of the firm’s Insolvency & Business Rescue Practice. He has a particular [...]

By |April 10th, 2025|

Hawa Moya

Focuses on messaging and relationships — both internal (within the company) and external (with the public, media, and stakeholders).

By |April 10th, 2025|

Janine Hollesen

Janine Hollesen is a Director and Head of the Intellectual Property (IP) practice area. She specialises in all aspects of IP law, including trade mark [...]

By |April 11th, 2025|

Jennifer Smit

Jennifer Smit is a Director and has significant experience in construction and engineering; administrative law; insolvency law; general contractual claims and recoveries of a general [...]

By |April 11th, 2025|

Johan Lubbe

Johan Lubbe is a Director and Head of Real Estate practice. He specialises in conveyancing; corporate real estate; due diligence investigations; notarial bonds and other [...]

By |April 11th, 2025|

Justin Truter

Justin Truter is a Director and Head of Environmental practice area. He also advises in the Mining & Resources, Construction & Engineering and Infrastructure & [...]

By |April 11th, 2025|

Natalie Scott

Natalie Scott is a Director in the Commercial Department and heads up the Sustainability practice area. She is a member of the Corporate Mergers & [...]

By |April 11th, 2025|

Neil Kirby

Neil Kirby is a Director and Head of Healthcare & Life Sciences and has been practicing in healthcare regulatory law for over 20 years. He [...]

By |April 11th, 2025|
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