Mr Lionel van Tonder > Webber Wentzel > Johannesburg, South Africa > Lawyer Profile

Mr Lionel van Tonder

+27 21 431 7382 [email protected]

Work Department

Forensic Services and Business Crimes

Position

Director

Career

Lionel specialises in all aspects of business crimes investigation, including financial crime and compliance, forensic data and analytics, digital forensics and eDiscovery and investigations. He also has extensive experience in investigating and prosecuting economic crime, money laundering, general fraud as well as a range of other fraud/corruption-related matters. Lionel was one of the signing partners on the Steinhoff investigation, which was marked as the biggest South African corporate collapse.

Prior to joining Webber Wentzel, Lionel was at PwC for 25 years. Lionel also worked for the Department of Justice as a Public Prosecutor, acting Magistrate, State Advocate and Senior State Advocate for 10 years. Lionel has also served in the Office for Serious Economic Offences as a Senior State Advocate where he investigated economic crime.

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