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Jeffrey Bortz
Director

Branch: Johannesburg
Tel: +27 (0)11 535 8199
Fax: +27 (0)11 535 8699
Email: jbortz@werksmans.com

Main Practice Area

Mergers & Acquisitions

Specialises in:
  • trade finance and security documentation including:
    • factoring
    • confirming
    • import and export transactions
    • invoice agreements

  • construction and engineering contracts
  • pension and provident fund matters
  • agreements relating to credit transactions including National Credit Act related matters
  • due diligence investigations

Career:
BA LLB (Wits)

1990: Director, Werksmans

Highlights:
    • Examiner: Admission examinations of the Law Society of the Northern Provinces
    • Director of various public companies
    • Past Chairman and President of South African Board of Jewish Education

    Major Clients & Matters:

      • Advising a leading truck and bus manufacturer in South Africa and Europe
      • Advising in respect of many of the current major infrastructure projects in South Africa
      • Advising a leading bank in South Africa in regard to trade finance and security documentation matters and credit agreements under the National Credit Act
      • Advising a leading engineering and architectural consulting firm and advising on a variety of structural projects including public private partnerships