LITIGATION & DISPUTE RESOLUTION

In an ideal world, disagreements would be resolved before flaring into fully-fledged conflicts. This is rare in the highly competitive global marketplace, which makes effective litigation or alternative dispute resolution key.

Werksmans is acknowledged for having one of South Africa's top commercial litigation teams  focussed on resolving matters in clients’ best interests, as quickly and efficiently as possible.

LITIGATION & DISPUTE RESOLUTION SERVICES

• All aspects of commercial litigation
• Alternative dispute resolution (mediation and arbitration)
• Insolvency practice
• Tax related litigation
• Intellectual property related litigation

LITIGATION & DISPUTE RESOLUTION SUCCESSES

Our litigation services area is both broad and deep, and our Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice is among the country’s largest and most experienced. Focusing on disputes that either reach the High Court or are resolved by arbitration, our lawyers are involved in many high-profile commercial litigation and arbitration matters in South Africa and internationally.
 
Geared for rapid response, the Litigation & Dispute Resolution team can be called upon at short notice to resolve large-scale and complex litigation matters. This includes urgent applications and discovery-driven trial and arbitration matters. Directors have also acted for clients in a number of international jurisdictions.
 
The team is well-represented at the International Bar Association. Our chairman, Des Williams, is a former co-chair of the Litigation Committee and is currently a member of Council of the Legal Practice Division of the International Bar Association. He is also a director of the Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa and was recently appointed as the sole South African member of the Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce.

Click here to read the South African chapter of Getting the Deal Through: Dispute Resolution 2011*.

Click here to read the South African chapter of the International Comparative Legal Guide to International Arbitration 2011 (published by Global Legal Group Ltd).

Read the South African chapter of Arbitration World 2010**.

Click here to read the South African chapter of Getting the Deal Through: Enforcement of Foreign Judgments 2012***.

*Reproduced with permission from Law Business Research Ltd. This article was first published in Getting the Deal Through – Dispute Resolution, June 2011; contributing editor: Simon Bushell.
See www.GettingTheDealThrough.com for more information.

**Reproduced with permission from Thomson Reuters.
See www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk for more information.

***Reproduced with permission from Law Business Research Ltd. This article was first published in Getting the Deal Through – Enforcement of Foreign Judgments 2012, (published in October 2011; contributing editors: Mark Moedritzer and Kay C Whittaker, Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP). See www.GettingTheDealThrough.com for more information.