Practice Areas

Commercial and Property Transactions & Commercial Litigation Lawyers

Commercial Transactions

Litigation

Conveyancing and Property Law

Divorce, Custody and Cohabitation Matters

Labour Law and Contracts

Wills, Deceased Estates and Trusts

Brief Overview

Commercial Transactions

The firm’s exposure to litigation in a variety of fields is the basis of its grasp of the difficulties which businesses typically face. This background is brought into play when drafting commercial agreements. Contracts and business systems are customised for clients to anticipate legal problems that are typical in their industry or that have featured in the history of the business, and to proactively guard against them.

It is important to the firm that its clients are able to apply the terms of their contracts without necessarily having to take further legal advice. The approach in drafting is to “road map” transactions so that transactions can be easily implemented, and disputes can be avoided or resolved without need for referral to court or arbitration.

Warrick de Wet Redman Attorneys has negotiated and drafted agreements for implementation in the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Germany, Singapore, Mauritius, Ivory Coast, Mozambique and South Africa.

Typically, these contracts concern the sale of businesses, sale of shares in companies, shareholders’ agreements, company incorporation documents, joint ventures, partnerships, trusts, franchises, distribution agreements, financing agreements, service level agreements, standard terms and conditions of trade, leases, public event management, sponsorships, due diligence exercises and and include the associated legislative compliance filings.

Litigation

Warrick de Wet Redman Attorneys undertakes unique commercial litigation concerning the enforcement of rights and damages claims arising out of commercial transactions generally, but with substantial exposure to shareholder and partnership disputes and breach of restraint of trade matters.

The firm does not position itself as a collector of small debts on a large scale. It does however provide an effective and systematic approach to the collection of more substantial trading debts for the benefit of an array of commercial clients in various centres throughout South Africa.

Legal costs are managed and adjusted to ensure that on average the collection process is a sensible and viable one for the client. There are a number of billing and reporting structures which can be adapted to create a suitable and cost-effective system.

Conveyancing and Property Law

Warrick de Wet Redman Attorneys are able to assist with all commercial and residential property transfers, endorsements, sub-divisions, consolidations, bonds and other property transactions.

The firm has experienced attorneys who can also assist with sale and rental agreements, homeowners’ associations / sectional title schemes / body corporate matters, property related disputes and evictions.

Divorce, Custody and Cohabitation Matters

The family related law work undertaken by Warrick de Wet Redman Attorneys includes divorce, either by opposed litigation or mediation, custody and visitation disputes, maintenance claims, cohabitation agreements and relocation disputes.

The firm’s focus is to resolve these matters quickly but fairly, with the least amount of damage to parent / parent and parent / child relationships which must necessarily survive a divorce. The firm’s approach to marriage has spontaneously created a successful divorce mediation practise which serves to save couples the cost, time and trauma of protracted divorce litigation.

Labour Law and Contracts

Warrick de Wet Redman Attorneys handles the drafting of employment contracts, policy and procedure manuals and consensual termination agreements.

The firm assists employers with the retrenchment of staff, including the drafting of retrenchment notices, holding retrenchment interviews with staff members, selecting candidates for retrenchment and executing retrenchments.

It also represents parties at disciplinary enquiries, CCMA hearings and Labour Court reviews.

Wills, Deceased Estates and Trusts

Warrick de Wet Redman Attorneys assists clients with estate planning through the drafting of wills as well as drafting of trust deeds and attending to the registration of trusts.

The firm works in conjunction with specialists in the fields of financial planning and taxation in order to achieve the best result for our clients.

The firm has personnel dedicated to the winding up of deceased estates and engages expert tax consultants to ensure that this is a sensitive and efficient process.