Director:
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Consultant : Business Operations: Practice Area
 
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Pieter Steyn
Director

Branch: Johannesburg
Tel: +27 (0)11 535 8296
Fax: +27 (0)11 535 8696
Email: psteyn@werksmans.com

Main Practice Areas

Mergers & Acquisitions
Competition

Specialises in:
  • commercial and corporate law,including:
    • companies and close corporations
    • cross-border transactions
    • mergers, acquisitions and management buy-outs
    • privatisations
    • restructuring of corporate entities
    • share incentive schemes
    • private equity transactions
    • licence, distribution, manufacturing, procurement and supply agreements
    • joint ventures and partnerships
    • trusts
    • black economic empowerement
  • gaming law, including lotteries

Career:
BSc (LAB MED) LLB (Wits)
LLM (Competition, Patent & Trade law) (Unisa)

1996: Director, Werksmans

Chairperson of Lex Africa
Chairperson of the NEPAD Business Foundation (NBF) Legal Sector

Highlights:
  • Fluent in English, German, French and Afrikaans
  • Named as a leading lawyer in:
    • Antitrust by Best Lawyers International (2008 - 2010)
    • Competition by IFLR1000: The Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms (2011)
    • Competition by the International Who's Who Legal (2007 - 2011)
  • Named by PLC Which Lawyer as a:
    • highly recommended lawyer (2007); a recommended lawyer (2008 - 2009), a leading lawyer (2010) and an endorsed lawyer (2011) in Competition/Antitrust
    • highly recommended lawyer (2007), a recommended lawyer (2008 – 2010) and an endorsed lawyer (2011) in Corporate/M&A
    • highly recommended lawyer (2007) and a recommended lawyer in Private Equity/Venture Capital (2008 and 2009)
    • recognised lawyer in Corporate Governance (2007 and 2009)
    • recognised lawyer (2010) and an endorsed lawyer (2011) in Director’s Duties and Liabilities
  • Written several articles, and spoken and chaired panels at conferences and seminars on:
    • South African competition law
    • corporate governance
    • joint ventures and investment in Africa
  • Represents the firm at the:
    • French Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Southern Africa
    • German South African Chamber of Industry
  • Trustee of the Ten Toes Ten Fingers Trust (a trust for the benefit of persons with disabilities including landmine victims)
  • Member of the:
    • International Bar Association
    • Committee on Competition Law of the Law Society of the Northern Provinces
  • Secretary and Membership Officer for the IBA's Antitrust Committee, and the Committee's newsletter reporter for South Africa