Hendrik Kotze
Phone +27 21 910 9018
Email hkotze@werksmans.com
Location Stellenbosch
Name / Surname Hendrik Kotze

Hendrik Kotze

Director

Hendrik Kotze is a Director in the Real Estate practice area. Hendrik advises on all aspects relating to real estate law – particularly commercial, industrial and residential property development. Most notable developments are the V&A Waterfront Cape Town; the proposed large scale Oakland City mixed use development project in Philippi Cape Town. Other notable recent property developments are the Fairmont, the Odyssey, the Kings- and the Strand Beach sectional title schemes in Sea Point; and the large scale mixed use Somerset Lakes Lifestyle development in Somerset West. Hendrik is named as a recommended lawyer in Real Estate by the Legal500 (2014 – 2021) and as a recommended lawyer in real estate by Chambers Global (2017 – 2020).

PRACTICE AREAS

  • Real Estate

  • Conveyancing
    • Notarial bonds and deeds
    • Sectional title and cluster development
    • Transfer of ownership in properties
    • Registration of mortgage bonds and servitudes
    • Consolidations
    • Subdivisions
  • Property development
  • Environmental and heritage law
    • Township development, including golf course and lifestyle estates
    • Sectional title schemes
    • Fractional ownership
  • Property commercial law
    • Drafting of commercial agreements
    • Due diligence investigations

Hendrik advises on all aspects relating to real estate law - particularly commercial, industrial and residential property development.

  • BCom (University of the Free State)
  • LLB (University of South Africa)
  • LLM Property Law (University of the Witwatersrand)
  • HDip Tax Prac (Rand Afrikaans University)
  • 1988: Partner, Jan S. De Villiers
  • 2009: Director, Werksmans
  • Head of the Property & Real Estate practice area

  • Ranked lawyer (Band 3) by Chambers Global | 2024 | Real Estate
  • Ranked lawyer (Band 2) by Chambers Global | 2017 – 2022 | Real Estate ‒ Sources regard him as a "very approachable" lawyer with "a client-oriented approach."
  • Ranked lawyer by Legal 500 | 2014 – 2019 and 2021 | Real Estate
  • Editor of Conveyancing Bulletin
  • Member of South African Property Association (SAPOA)
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