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Guidelines outlining how the competition authorities will calculate penalties for parties who implement notifiable transactions without approval have been published.

South Africa's Competition Commission has published a comprehensive impact study examining Employee Share Ownership Plans mandated as merger remedies, revealing that while all assessed ESOPs held shares with voting rights...

The Competition Commission recently published a notice designed to inform franchisors and franchisees about the impact of the Competition Act on their franchising arrangements.

In the calendar year 2012, the local private equity industry added 10.4% to its total funds under management, which closed at R126.4 billion.

"It is truly astonishing how often businessmen conduct their affairs, involving at times huge financial interests, on the strength of crude and vague agreements and then ‘rely on hope, good spirits...

Proprietors of liquor businesses should take heed of a recent decision of the Supreme Court of Appeal reported in the case of Hitler Adolf Klokow v Michael Boyton Sullivan.

In an era demanding greater corporate transparency, the concept of beneficial ownership has moved from a niche legal term to an essential compliance imperative for businesses operating in South Africa.

In most instances a company in business rescue will require post commencement financing.

It is almost considered a foregone conclusion: a written contract must be signed by the parties for it to be valid.

There are certain essential elements which must be present in a contractual arrangement for an agreement to be deemed valid.

It is not only the scores under these elements that may be affected.

On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic.

When the new South African Companies Act comes into force in the second half of 2010 there will be greater exposure to claims against directors and officers and greater scope for all-important risk management.

The DRC has now deposited its instruments of ratification in the OHADA depository state Senegal which will render the OHADA laws applicable in the DRC in September 2012.

The Expropriation Bill is set to be enacted soon. Under which circumstances may expropriation without compensation be permitted?