We offer in-depth experience across a range of sectors, combining legal expertise, corporate governance skills and market knowledge and with a thorough understanding of our clients’ business and personal needs.

We are skilled in areas such as:

• Partnership Agreements,
• Trade Agreements,
• Movable Lease Transactions,
• Franchising Agreements,
• Sale Agreements
• Cross-Border Trading
• Joint Venture Agreements
• Sale of Business Agreements, etc.
• Standard Terms and Conditions
• Selling your company or shareholding in your company – how to structure the sale, how to prepare your company for sale, negotiating terms and implementing the sale.
• Buying companies and shareholding in companies.
• Agency and Distribution agreements
• Procurement and Supply agreements
• Licensing agreements, Copyright and Trademark assignments, Franchise agreements, and Technology agreements.
• IT and software agreements
• Confidentiality agreements
• Business trusts, partnerships, and joint ventures
• Private equity transactions, acquisitions, disposals and restructurings, public offers.
• Intellectual property.

We provide expert advice and assistance on all aspects of corporate law, including:

• Corporate transactions such as the issue of transfer of shares, rights issues, share buybacks and similar transactions.
• Filings to amend and update details of companies and close corporations, and deregistration.
• Public-private partnerships.
• Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment transactions, charters, and codes of good practice.
• Private Equity.
• Corporate restructuring.
• Drafting and reviewing of shareholders’ agreements and assisting in the negotiation thereof.
• Duties and responsibilities of directors and company officers.
• Compliance and regulatory requirements.
• Mergers, Acquisitions and Disposals.
• Structuring of business entities.
• Management buy-outs and buy-ins.
• Reconstructions and reorganizations.
• Share issues

The K&B Attorneys team comprises highly experienced contractual and conveyancing attorneys.  Our conveyancer has more than 20 years of experience in property transfers, bond registrations, and bond cancellations. Henry was involved with firms that served on the residential and commercial attorney panels of all four major banks in South Africa. Our client base includes banks, corporations, estate agencies, property developers and private homeowners.

We provide specialised legal advice in all aspects of commercial and residential property transactions.

This includes:

• Property sales,
• Property developments,
• Property finance,
• Leases agreements,
• Drafting and executing all types of Notarial Contracts.
• Transfers of all types of immovable property in all the Deeds Offices in South Africa.
• Registration of Private Bonds over immovable property in all the Deeds Offices in South Africa.
• Registration of Long-Term Lease agreements over immovable property in all the Deeds Offices in South Africa.
• Registration of Predial and Personal Servitudes over immovable property in all the Deeds Offices in South Africa.
• Opening of Sectional Title Register and the transfer of the Units
• Township establishment and development
• Subdivision and Consolidation of immovable property in all the Deeds Offices in South Africa.

K&B Attorneys has a dedicated Insolvency Law and Business Rescue department.

We assist individuals and small to medium enterprises who are struggling to meet their financial obligations, as and when they become due, in finding a tailor-made solution that best suits their needs.

Our experience within this sector also includes working with creditors that need their interests protected where debtors are in an insolvent position.

We offer the following services:

• Voluntary Surrenders
• Business Rescue
• Sequestrations
• Liquidations
• Rehabilitations

Estate Planning is integral to a family’s well-being, and the implications of not planning before death could affect the financial security of dependents and other family members after death.

K&B ATTORNEYS has highly trained and experienced lawyers and paralegals who are specialists in this area. In addition to estate planning, we also handle the;

• Drawing up a Will.
• Administration of Deceased Estates, and
• Trust Creation and administration of trusts (testamentary or inter vivos).

Our litigating department works together with clients to identify and execute the most advantageous business-oriented solutions, either by pursuing or defending:

• Conciliation and Mediation of commercial disputes.
• Representing clients in litigation in all courts, tribunals and other statutory bodies across South Africa and other foreign jurisdictions.
• Alternative dispute resolution services, including private facilitation, mediation, and arbitration.

Our lawyers operate in many spheres, which include, but are not limited to:

• Contractual Disputes;
• Partnership Disputes,
• Construction Disputes,
• Property Disputes,
• Evictions
• Building Disputes, and
• Estates Late Disputes.