Our services
Thomas Kouter Attorneys offers professional services and expertise, which are summarized as follows:
CORPORATE, COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL SERVICES
These services constitute a major part of our firm’s practice. Our professional team is academically qualified and practically experienced to handle a full range of commercial transactions:
- legal advisors
- conducting due diligence exercises
- negotiation and drafting of agreements
- shareholders share sale and business sale agreements
- furnishing opinions on various commercial aspects
- applications of business and related licenses and permits
- alternative dispute resolution
- structuring and negotiating commercial transactions and heads of agreements
- devising and forming new business entities in terms of the Companies Act after takeovers, mergers and acquisitions
- removal of persons from administration, TransUnion listing etc
- commissions of inquiry on human rights and other related issues
- deed of cession, pledge arrangements and inter-creditor agreements
- facilitations and drafting of specialised transportation agreements; including cross-border transactions and South Africa Exchange Control regulations
- appointments duration services area and services
- compliance with relevant legislation more especially the Municipal Finance Management Act and the Public Finance Management Act
- key performance areas
- compliance with Key Governance guidelines as determined by king code 11 and 111
- compliance with Treasury policies and risk assessments
- drawing of shareholders agreements
- advising on the new company law requirements and compliance
- occupational health and safety and compliance in the mining industry
- mining and environmental law
GENERAL LITIGATION
General litigation and alternative dispute resolution which includes amongst others:
- promotion of conciliation mediation and arbitration in terms of labour law
- litigation:
- Magistrate’s Court
- High Court
- Labour Court
- Supreme Court of Appeal
- Constitutional Court
PROPERTY AND CONVEYANCING
These include amongst other services:
- property transfers
- registration and cancellation of mortgage bonds
- sectional title registration
- township establishment
- applications of rezoning
- advise on property disposal and acquisition agreements
- registration of notarial bonds
- housing policy matters
Our firm has experience in the following field of conveyancing:
- transfers on behalf of the Land Claims Commissioner
- interacting with town planners surveyors in respect of land identification and registration
- transfer of sectional titles unit
- issuing of Conveyancer’s Certificate after registration
- attending to opening of township registers
Our firm has installed the following programmes to expedite and communicate with conveyancing clients:
- Legal Perfect which includes Regibond
- Ghost Convey
- Windeed for Deeds Office Search and Cipro information
- Debt Collection programme
PROCUREMENT
To mention but a few of a wide range of services:
- advise on tendering
- drafting regulations governing procurement
- facilitation of workshops on procurement
- drafting service level agreements
- due diligence on service level agreements
- SABS compliance
- advise on joint venture agreements
- advise on the Municipal Finance Management Act, Public Finance Management Act and Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act , etc
