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CONTENTS

Overview

Services

Our professional team

VanderMerwe & Robertson Group

Community projects

References

Contact us

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Established in 2004 by friends Roelf van der Merwe and George

Robertson, VanderMerwe & Robertson Incorporated prides itself

on providing excellent and professional services to its diverse and

growing client base.

Our attorneys are business-minded and focused on providing

pragmatic and innovative commercial solutions to business and

related legal issues.

VanderMerwe & Robertson’s head office is located in Durbanville in

Cape Town’s Northern Suburbs. Its Gauteng office is located in

Hyde Park, Johannesburg and their Cape Town Office is located

in Cape Town’s CBD, at 39 Adderly Street.

The firm has a nationwide client base that includes banks,

property developers, building contractors, insurance companies,

brokers, manufacturers, mining groups, corporate finance and

investment advisory houses, wealth management companies

and other corporate clients, as well as the Provincial and National

Government.

Over the past twelve years VanderMerwe & Robertson has

become a dynamic firm focusing on commercial matters and

is currently represented on the panels of the major financial

institutions, being Standard Bank, ABSA, FNB, Nedbank,

Nedbank Private Wealth and ABSA Private Banking for the

registration and cancellation of bonds.

VanderMerwe & Robertson has Level 4 BBB-EE status.

OVERVIEW

SERVICES

PROPERTY AND CONVEYANCING

Since the turn of the century, legislative change has rapidly

swept the property market, affecting land use, planning and

development, tenant debt, municipal services, transfer duties

and deeds registration, among others. Our practice provides

innovative property solutions whether from a legal, residential or

commercial perspective.

Our property services include:

• Drafting deeds of sale and preparing agreements relating

to property ownership e.g. joint ventures and partnerships

• Registration of transfers and including single title, sectional

title and estate transfers

• Subdivision of property and land consolidations

• General notarial services

• Opening of sectional title registers

• We provide a complete property law service to developers

and building contractors

• We are represented on the panels of the major financial

institutions throughout South Africa, namely ABSA Bank,

Standard Bank, Nedbank, First National Bank, Nedbank

Private Wealth and ABSA Private Banking, for the registration

and cancellation of bonds

• Registration of leasehold and servitudes

ESTATE AND TRUST PLANNING

We offer our clients dedicated estate and trust planning services.

Our services include:

• Establishment and registration of inter vivos trusts

• Drafting of Wills

• Administration of deceased estates

• Estate planning

• Masters office searches and attendance

• Advice on all aspects of the law of succession

SERVICES

INSURANCE LAW

VanderMerwe & Robertson Inc. specialises in providing advice

in relation to a range of complex commercial insurance matters.

We provide advice to national and international insurance

companies, underwriters, brokers and insureds.

We are experts in the following areas:

• Alternative risk transfer and risk management advice

• Construction and engineering

• Cyber insurance

• Director and officer liability

• Dispute resolution and litigation

• General liability, including motor accident

• Intermediary services

• Legislation and regulatory advice

• Medical malpractice

• Policy wording drafting and reviewing

• Product liability

• Professional indemnity

• Property insurance and business interruption

• Subrogated recoveries and defences

CIVIL LITIGATION

Our expertise and extensive knowledge of the legal system

allows us to advise our clients of their rights and to represent

them in a way that best serves their interests.

Should it become necessary to enforce your rights, our litigation

team will utilise their considerable skills to your benefit.

Our services in this area include:

• Commercial litigation including contractual, engineering and

building disputes in specialised forums

• Alternative dispute resolution

• Civil matters that require litigation in the High Court, Regional

Court or Magistrate’s Court

• Personal injury claims for losses and damages suffered

• Liquidations, insolvencies and business rescue matters

• Criminal law cases in the Regional and Magistrate’s Courts

• Construction and building disputes

• Disciplinary hearings and administrative law

related matters

COMMERCIAL AND CORPORATE LAW

Commercial law governs the areas of business, trade, commerce,

sales and consumer transactions. We pride ourselves on being

business-minded and our business acumen is of great value to

our clients.

We are experts on drafting, negotiating, furnishing legal opinions

and we advise on:

• General transactions

• Shareholders agreements (companies)

• Association agreements (close corporations)

• Partnership agreements

• Joint venture agreements and lease agreements

• Purchase and supply agreements

• MOI’s

• Franchise agreements

• Unlawful competition

• Trust purchase and sale of shares in a business,

transfer of interests in close corporations

• National Credit Act.

• Urgent applications and interdicts

• Mergers and acquisitions

FAMILY LAW

We regard ourselves as the custodians of our clients’ family legal

health. Our job is to support and protect every aspect of that life

from antenuptial contracts to wills. Our clients can always count

on us to take care of every family matter, no matter how fractious,

with tact, respect and complete confidentiality.


• Magistrate’s Court and High Court litigation

• Divorce matters

• Parental responsibilities

• Matrimonial property

• Rights and Maintenance disputes

• Antenuptial agreements

• Civil unions and cohabitation agreements

• Care and contact of minors

• Protection orders

• General family law advice

• Family law mediation

SERVICES

SERVICES

ARBITRATION AND MEDIATION OF COMMERCIAL DEPUTIES

Arbitration is a popular and widely used method of commercial

dispute resolution. We expect a new International Arbitration

Act will be enacted in 2016 and that the modernisation of our

arbitration law will stimulate the growth of South Africa as a major

arbitration centre for the region. Senior members of our team are

able to act as arbitrators in commercial arbitrations. We also

provide alternative dispute resolution services, in the form of

mediation of commercial disputes.

COMMERCIAL RECOVERIES

Our team includes attorneys experienced in high-level and complex

restructurings and turnarounds, informal and formal business rescue

and recovery proceedings. We assist with restructuring, in addition to

managing complex business rescue, insolvency and litigation proceedings.

Specific services include:

• Debt collections, including formal court processes and execution

• Credit agreements, repossessions, attachments and interdicts

• Magistrates court debt collections throughout South Africa, including

the appointment of tracing agents for missing debtors

• Financial investigations, acknowledgements of debt, attachment

and sale of goods

BROAD-BASED BLACK ECONOMICEMPOWERMENT

As transactional attorneys, we advise on complex B-BBEE

transactions. In addition to advice on the structuring of transactions

to derive maximum B-BBEE benefit, we also provide regulatory

and compliance advice on issues such as:

• Interaction between the B-BBEE Codes and various charters

which govern enterprises within specific sectors

• The interpretation of the B-BBEE Codes and score card,

calculation of an enterprise’s ‘points’ and the structuring of

an entity to improve its B-BBEE profile

SERVICES

CONSTITUTIONAL & ADMINISTRATIVE LAW

We advise both public and private sector clients on the institution

and defence of judicial review proceedings; requests for reasons

and access to information; regulatory law disputes; all issues

related to media freedom, including defamation and privacy

(both pre- and post-publication), data protection, constitutional

litigation and challenging or defending exercises of public power,

including legislation.

CONSTRUCTION & ENGINEERING

In recent years, the face of construction and engineering in South

Africa has changed exponentially. Projects have become bigger

and more complex from almost every perspective.

As lawyers we combine detailed legal knowledge with commercial

awareness and are able to understand the needs of all stake-

holders in the engineering and construction value chain.


• Dispute resolution and litigation

• Environmental and Water Law legislation

• Project finance

• Energy and infrastructure

• Procurement strategy advice

• Risk management to avoid disputes and delays

• Competition law as it pertains to the sectors

ROELF VAN DER MERWE(Director)

Roelf attended the University of Stellenbosch where he obtained

a B.Econ degree, majoring in Political Science and Economics,

and obtained his LLB. Degree through UNISA. Roelf specialises

in commercial work, insurance law and conveyancing and holds

a Certificate in Advanced Commercial Law from LSSA & ISLP.

Roelf acts as the co-principal of VanderMerwe & Robertson

Properties and is the chairman of both the Governing Body at

Durbanville Primary School and of the Durbanville Business

Chamber.

[email protected]

EUGENE GROENEWALD(Director)

Eugene obtained both BSc(Hons) and LLB degrees and

has completed programmes in insurance practice, advanced

insurance practice, and the International Certificate in Risk

Management through the Institute of Risk Management

in London, and is currently in the process of completing

the International Diploma in Risk Management through the same

Institute. He specialises in commercial work and more particularly

commercial law, insolvency law and insurance law. Eugene is a

member and past-president of the Rotary Club of Durbanville and

sits on the management committee of the Durbanville Athletics

Club.

[email protected]

GEORGE ROBERTSON(Director)

George obtained BSc and LLB degrees and a Post Graduate

Diploma in Tax Law from the University of Stellenbosch, as well

as a CFP (Certified Financial Planning) Diploma from the University

of the Free State. George is a Conveyancer and Notary, and

specialises in commercial work, conveyancing and trust law.

George is the Chief Executive Officer of Galileo Advisory Services,

a division of Galileo Capital.

[email protected]

CATHERINE LOUW(Consultant)

Catherine holds BA and LLB degrees from the University of

Stellenbosch. She was admitted as Advocate and joined the staff

of the Attorney General in Pietermaritzburg as a State Advocate.

She moved to Cape Town where she was admitted as an

attorney and conveyancer. Catherine specialises in conveyancing

and also serves on the panel of examiners for the Conveyancing

Practice Examinations for the Cape Law Society.

PROFESSIONAL TEAM

Supporting the professional team are:

MORNÉ ROETS CA(SA)

Morné is a Chartered Accountant and completed his SAICA articles at Baker Tilly Greenwoods. He obtained both his BCom and BCom Honours degree in Chartered Accounting at the North-West University Potchefstroom.

RENETTE MAIJ

Renette is the team leader of the conveyancing department, she obtained her LLB degree at UNISA and is currently finalising her admission as Attorney and Conveyancer.

MICHELLE RIDDLES

Michelle completed her National Diploma in Cost and Management Accounting at CPUT and has 7 years’ experience at one of the Big 4 firms in South Africa.

JEAN-CLAUDE WESSELS

Jean-Claude is a candidate attorney within our Commercial and Litigation department. He completed his LLB degree at the University of the Free State.

SUPPORTING STAFF

In addition we have a large back-room staff component includ-ing junior partners, administrative staff and senior executives.

PROFESSIONAL TEAM

THE GROUP

The VanderMerwe & Robertson Group consists of a number of private companies apart from attorneys VanderMerwe & Robertson Inc.

GALILEO ADVISORY SERVICES (Pty) Ltd

Galileo Advisory Services, a division of Galileo Capital, assists its

clients with a unique personal and/or family plan to protect and

preserve their wealth. It focuses on putting the necessary

structures in place to manage and protect its clients’ wealth.

Services include the drafting of wills, drafting and registration of

trusts, administration of estates and trust administration. Galileo

Advisory Services also specializes in accounting and tax

services. It has two Cape Town offices, in Durbanville and

Rondebosch, as well as an office in East London and in Hyde

Park, Johannesburg.

The directors of VanderMerwe & Robertson Inc. own 50% of the

shares in Galileo Advisory Services.

www.galileoadvise.co.za.

THE GROUP

VAN DER MERWE & ROBERTSON PROPERTIES

The agency team markets properties for sale and/or rent in Cape

Town and the Northern Suburbs. With offices in Durbanville, and

years of experience in this area, VanderMerwe & Robertson

Properties has established a strong track record. Roelf van der

Merwe is the Principal of the agency.


shares.

www.vrprop.co.za

THE VISUAL PROPERTY CLUB

The VanderMerwe & Robertson Group joined forces with Visual

International Holdings Ltd. to establish The Visual Property Club,

with the primary focus of facilitating the sales process of properties

to high net worth individuals in terms of Section 13 of the SA

Income Tax Act 58 of 1962, as amended.

The concept is registered at the Patent Office under RSA patent

number 2012/03640.


shares.

COMMUNITY PROJECTS

DURBANVILLE ATHLETICS CLUB

VanderMerwe & Robertson is actively involved in the communities in

which it serves. It is sole sponsor of the Durbanville Athletics Club

and has recently been honoured with the Durbanville Business

Chamber’s Business of the Year Award 2015/2016 in the medium

size business category.

CLIENT REFERENCES

Contact details for the above references are available on request:

C a p i t a lOPES

ABSA BANK Ms Bulie Nombombo

ARBOR CAPITAL Ms Michelle Krastanov

BROLINK INSURANCE ADMINISTRATORS Ms Anphia Davies

FIRST NATIONAL BANK Ms Maria Koen

GALILEO CAPITAL Mr Theo Vorster - Director & CEO

HOLLARD INSURANCE Mr Hayden Simpson

IHS (International Housing Solutions) Mr W Odendaal Director

CH & E PROJECTS Mr Charles H Robertson - Director

ASA RESOURCES formerly

Mwana Africa Holdings (Pty) Ltd

Ms Vanessa Yam

NEDBANK

Ms D Lesch

ONESURANCE Mr Ryneveldt van der Horst

PKF SOUTH AFRICA Mr Retief Rademeyer - Partner

STANDARD BANK Mr Johan van Wyk

Provincial Director, Western Cape

SANTAM INSURANCE COMPANYJHB Special Claims - Ms Ida D’Eramo

STAYSURE INSURANCE BROKERS

Mr C Knoetze

TERRAPLAN

Mr T Scott

VERSO WEALTH (PTY) LTD

Mr Wessel Oosthuizen

VISUAL INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS (PTY) LTD Mr Peter Grobbelaar - Director

OPES CAPITAL (PTY) LTD Mr Robert Van Zyl (Co-Founder)

CONTACT US

DURBANVILLE OFFICE

CAPE TOWN CBD OFFICE

JOHANNESBURG OFFICE

T: +27 21 976 4663

F: +27 21 976 4665

E: [email protected]

2nd Floor, 34 Oxford St, Durbanville, 7550

P.O. Box 1469, Durbanville, 7551

T: +27 21 469 9735

F: +27 86 527 7434


2nd Floor, Piazza Offices, 39 Adderley St, Cape Town, 8000

T: +27 11 502 8820

F: +27 11 447 6937


Fountain Grove Office Park, 5 Second Rd, Hyde Park

Johannesburg, 2197

www.vrincorporated.co.za

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