Corporate and Commercial Services
As a corporate and commercial law firm, we focus strongly on the needs of businesses. We have built our reputation on the delivery of exceptional legal services and make it our business to understand
the full impact of our advice on all facets of our
client’s businesses.
Our success in both corporate and commercial law is built on a solid foundation of insightful and innovative deal structuring and legal advice; a keen ability to understand business and economic imperatives; and a strong focus on achieving the best legal outcome for clients. Major aspects of our services in the area include:
• Floatation and acquisition of Companies
• Mergers and de-mergers, acquisitions, disposals,
and management buyouts.
• Share Sales and Shareholder Arrangements
• Corporate Finance, structures and restructuring,
reorganizations of businesses and capital structures.
• Statutory and regulatory compliance
• Local and International Joint Ventures
• Distributorship, sale, purchase, agency and supply
agreements.
• Venture capital, seed capital and other forms of debt
and equity financing.
• Liquidation and Insolvency
• Licensing
• National and international trade transactions
• Duties of directors and corporate governance
• Partnership Agreements and Trust Deeds
• Company secretarial work including Board Matters
• Due diligence checks
• Employment and human resources
• Debt and corporate recovery
Legal and Policy Consultancy
GSM Law Chambers has a team dedicated not only to legal practice but legal and policy research as well. Our Consultancy and Research Department comprises of a team well versed in research and legal report writing. The expertise in this department extends to areas like:
• Legal and policy analysis
• International law and its domestic application
• Human rights, governance and democratization
• Public interest litigation
• Legal and policy consultancy.
Company & Secretarial Services
GSM Law Chambers provides the following services:
• Planning and administrative services in respect of trusts and estates.
• The formation of trusts
• GSM Law Chambers accepts appointments as independent trustee on our clients’ trusts
• Comprehensive company secretarial services to clients of GSM Law Chambers
• The formation and conversion of companies and close corporations
• Shelf companies are kept available in order to expedite our clients’ business developments
• The company secretarial implementation of shareholders’ and members’ agreements
• Submissions to and communication with the Masters of High Court, the Registrar of Companies and Close Corporations (CIPC).
Other Services
Construction Law
GSM Law Chambers have extensive experience pertaining to the following:
• NEC contracts
• Defective drawings or specifications
• Delays on the critical path
• Defects caused by other contractors
• Insufficient or unclear instructions
• Variation orders
• Payment Issues
• Extension of time claims
• Inability to obtain a completion certificate.
Criminal Law (Fraud Investigation)
Criminal Law is the name given to the branch of law that governs an individual’s relationship to the state. It includes the definitions of criminal offenses, which are usually established by Congress or state legislatures.
The term “criminal law” also encompasses the rights of an accused and the criminal process, including arrest, pleas, discovery, pre-trial hearings, trials, evidence, motions, and post-trial remedies. The main purpose of the criminal law is to set forth the punishment for criminal offenses.
In order to prove any crime, no matter how serious, the prosecutor must prove that the accused committed a criminal act with intent beyond a reasonable doubt.
Crimes are classified as misdemeanours, less serious offenses that are normally punishable by a fine like some traffic violations, petty theft or possession of a small amount of marijuana. And felonies-more serious offenses that warrant imprisonment of one of one or more years, such as rape, theft, assault with intent, assault with a deadly weapon, or homicide/murder. GSM Law Chambers can assist clients in the application for bail, defence and investigation of Criminal charges.
