SOUTH AFRICA RAISES THE BAR FOR MERGER NOTIFICATIONS
SOUTH AFRICA RAISES THE BAR FOR MERGER NOTIFICATIONS Introduction South Africa’s merger control landscape is set for a meaningful change following the publication of amendments by the Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition proposing revised merger notification...
NAVIGATING TRUST COMPLIANCE IN SOUTH AFRICA’S EVOLVING REGULATORY LANDSCAPE
Introduction Trusts have historically served as vital instruments within South Africa’s legal framework for estate planning, asset protection, and the preservation of wealth across generations. Historically, one of the defining features of a trust has been a degree of...
UPDATE: AMENDMENTS TO THE REGULATIONS AND DETERMINATION OF LOCKDOWN LEVELS
On the 7th of August 2020 the Minister of Health, Dr. Zweli Lawrence Mkhize, issued two new directives. The first directive, issued in terms of regulation 3(3) issued under section 27(2) of the Disaster Management Act No. 57 of 2002 (“Disaster Management Act”),...
SHAREHOLDING STRUCTURES: THE UTILISATION OF DIFFERENT CLASSES OF ORDINARY SHARES
R Jooste and J Yeats in the second edition of Contemporary Company Law states that a company has “almost unlimited freedom to create the capital structure it desires and in so doing to structure the rights of each of its various classes of shares in an almost infinite...