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Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr

South Africa

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Key practice areas
General corporate tax
Tax
Tax controversy
Transfer pricing
Key Industries

The firm has dedicated sector teams composed of lawyers from across practice areas, bringing a wealth of experience to key industries, such as:

  • Aviation
  • Black economic empowerment
  • Construction and engineering
  • Convergence and new media
  • Employee benefits
  • Energy
  • Hospitality and leisure
  • Insolvency and restructuring
  • Insurance
  • M&A
  • Mining and minerals
  • Oil and gas
  • Outsourcing
  • PPPs
  • Private equity and more
Other offices

Namibia

Firm оverview

We are a full service law firm consisting of more than 330 lawyers and with a track record spanning over 171 years.

We provide experienced corporate and commercial legal support and authentic, knowledge-based and cost-effective legal services for clients looking to do business in key markets across Africa.

Our Africa practice brings together the resources and expertise of leading business law firms across the continent that have direct experience acting for governments, state agencies and multinational organisations. This combined experience across the continent produces an extensive African capability. We also partner with other professional disciplines such as audit, business consulting and corporate finance to provide a seamless and integrated solution for projects that have a multi-disciplinary dimension.

We focus on a number of key sectors which are active and thriving in Africa, including Mergers & Acquisitions; Agriculture, Aquaculture & Fishing; Commercial Real Estate; Consumer Goods, Services & Retail; Energy and Power; Oil & Gas; Financial Institutions, Services & Fintech; Business Rescue, Restructuring & Insolvency; Government & State-owned Entities; Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals; Hospitality & Leisure; Gambling & Regulatory Compliance; Industrials, Manufacturing & Trading; Infrastructure, Transport & Logistics; Mining & Minerals; Private Equity; and Technology & Communications.

Tel:+27 11 562 1000 Fax:+27 11 562 1111 Email:Contact Us Web Address:http://www.cliffedekkerhofmeyr.com
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Overview

The South African full-service law firm has a stand-alone tax practice offering tax advice on contentious and non-contentious tax matters. The comprehensive tax service coverage offers assistance on direct and indirect taxes, tax structuring, transactional tax, and more, for key players across various industries and sectors, such as financial services, real estate, energy and natural resources, mining, private equity, etc. With the leadership of tax partner and practice head Emil Brincker, the experienced tax team has seven dedicated tax partners, including Stephan Spamer, Gerhard Badenhorst, Ludwig Smith, Howmera Parak, Petr Erasmus, and Jerome Brink; each practitioner specialises in a specific tax domain. The Knowledge Management team is a separate support team focusing on legal technology developments to assimilate into the tax practice for enhancing and streamlining its tax services. This involves the use of AI, automation, and more, for quality and time efficiency.

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