Our Expertise
Corporate restructuring is a risk mitigation tool. It allows companies to eliminate business practices that hinder the profitability of the company. These may include restructuring of debts, optimization of organizational structures and procedures to ultimately make the company viable again, either through restructuring of existing companies or the set-up of new companies. Our attorneys are uniquely positioned to advise on a full range of issues that may arise throughout a corporate restructuring process. These include Business Rescue, Liquidation, Restructuring, Acquisitions, and tax relief.
Our services include:
SGA Law Africa is part of the World Law Alliance Restructuring Group. WLA Restructuring Group operates worldwide as one practice to provide seamless service to restructuring clients facing complicated global issues with experience across multiple sectors. WLA members have unique, widespread experience in all forms of complex financial and operational restructurings and insolvency proceedings, including representing debtors, distressed investors, and creditors in all restructuring efforts.
In collaboration with our World Law Alliance partners, SGA Law Africa represents public and private companies and equity investors to negotiate and close highly sophisticated transactions. Our offering covers the full spectrum of corporate transactions important to businesses in today’s global marketplace. Being an alliance of cross functional and cross discipline practices, we have acquired a broad vision of the issues that confront business organizations and an aptitude for developing creative and constructive solutions.
In the cycle of a transaction, we offer the following services:
Effective corporate governance must be at the center of any successful business enterprise whether big or small. The governing body of any organization has a responsibility to determine and understand the needs of the customers and the stakeholders of the company over and above the minimum standards laid down by parliament and other regulatory agencies. The governing body must improve the quality of an organization management and decision-making abilities, develop standards of governance that enable an organization to manage risks confidently as they arise. The governing body must improve the quality of an organization’s management and decision-making abilities, develop standards of governance that enable an organization to manage risks confidently as they arise.
SGA Law Africa’s corporate governance services include:
Dispute Resolution and Litigation
When the commercial and reputational interests are at stake, SGA Law Africa’s Dispute Resolution Team is your best defence. The practical experience, technical strength and strategic insight of our dispute practice is unmatched. In collaboration with our World Law Alliance firms, WLA Litigation and Dispute Resolution Group is one of the most sophisticated integrated groups of professionals with a die-hard approach and proven track record for taking cases to conclusion, settlements, and a verdict. Our approach is that companies should spend time maximizing commercial opportunities rather than engaged in protracted legal and often adversarial disputes. Our objective is to assist clients in mediating a dispute to reach an amicable solution without compromising our client’s rights and should this not be feasible or attempts to resolve matters amicably prove unsuccessful, we have the capacity to assist clients with referring matters to arbitration or instituting actions in court.
Global Arbitration and Mediation
When the commercial and reputational interests are at stake, SGA Law Africa’s Dispute Resolution Team is your best defence. The practical experience, technical strength and strategic insight of our dispute practice is unmatched. In collaboration with our World Law Alliance firms, WLA Litigation and Dispute Resolution Group is one of the most sophisticated integrated groups of professionals with a die-hard approach and proven track record for taking cases to conclusion, settlements, and a verdict. Our approach is that companies should spend time maximizing commercial opportunities rather than engaged in protracted legal and often adversarial disputes. Our objective is to assist clients in mediating a dispute to reach an amicable solution without compromising our client’s rights and should this not be feasible or attempts to resolve matters amicably prove unsuccessful, we have the capacity to assist clients with referring matters to arbitration or instituting actions in court.
Intellectual Property Law
SGA Law Africa is part of the World Law Alliance Global IP Practice. The World Law Alliance IP Practice is a Global IP Practice, serving a diverse roster of clients across industries and business sectors around the world.
From the beginning of a business concept and throughout its entire life and while expanding your business globally, you face a lot of challenges securing your intellectual property. You need a trusted partner capable of protecting your intellectual property (trademarks, designs, and patents) rights, help you navigate through legal rigmarole, save your time, and offer all these IP Services at an affordable price.
IP Protection, Enforcement and Commercialization should be intertwined.
SGA Law Africa is experienced in a wide range of international trade law services.
Our service offering includes:
Labour Law and Employment
We provide a wide range of labor law services to employees, labor unions, employers and employer organizations. Our social partner message you in my is an independent part time commissioner at the CCMA and various other industry bargaining councils.
Our expertise includes providing legal advice, initiating and running hearings on clients behalf, brand new various applications and making representations at the CCMA, establishment of blogging councils, representation in the Labor Court and handling of Labor court and labor appeal court in relation to litigation.
Some of our areas of service include advising on the following legislation and employment practice issues:
As part of the world law alliance, we offer our clients cross-border law employment solutions. Cross-border labor and employment matters arise in many different business contexts and are often intertwined with issues of compliance, global mobility, data protection, immigration, compensation and benefits and corporate transactions. Today’s diverse, mobile workforce is creating unprecedented challenges and opportunities for business leaders around the world. With lawyers in member law firms across the globe, WLA Global Labor & Employment Law Group has cultivated a varied and diverse blend of expertise, experience, and local knowledge to help your company almost everywhere it does business.
Recruitment and hiring, drafting, and negotiating employment contracts, agency and contractor arrangements, secondments, employee relations, works councils and unions, flexible working, diversity and equality, hours and pay, corporate governance, boardroom and senior executive issues, grievance handling, whistle-blowing and disciplinary issues.
Employee share and incentive plans, innovative remuneration structures, pensions and employee tax, ERISA, share plans and stock options.
Transactional
Business immigration advice in key jurisdictions.
Tax
Whether you are going through a major transition, merger, or acquisition, working on a high-stakes deal, or starting a new venture, tax issues are one important element to address.
SGA Law Africa is part of the World Law Alliance Tax Group. As trusted tax advisors, the WLA Tax Group helps navigate the complex tax issues to proactively manage your matter. Our transactional tax lawyers’ structure and negotiate domestic and cross-border M&A, finance, securities, and securitization transactions as well as advise on restructurings, private investment funds and real estate investments. Faced with increasingly complex and shifting tax regimes, together with the need to remain competitive, you can rely on the WONE Tax team for effective tax advice, innovative planning, efficient tax structures and comprehensive risk assessments.
We work with you to provide tax solutions that help you achieve your strategic objectives. By acting as one agile, integrated, and collaborative team, across sectors, services and geographies, our clients benefit from both our local roots and the global perspective.