Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr
www.cliffedekkerhofmeyr.com
Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr is one of the largest legal firms in South Africa, with some 130 directors (partners) and 300 lawyers at offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town. Through our exclusive alliance with DLA
Piper, one of the largest global legal services providers, we are able to provide international legal solutions for clients wherever they choose to do business. Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr is a member firm of the DLA Piper Africa Group. Through this exclusive network of firms across the African continent, we also offer our clients unparalleled pan-African support and advice that is enriched by genuine knowledge of both local and international considerations.
Full-service business solutions
We are business lawyers. We help companies to succeed by offering corporate and commercial expertise across the full range of legal services and industries, and providing practical and commercially focused solutions. We offer the advantage of one law firm with the depth of resources, capabilities and experience tailored to a client's day-to-day business needs and long-term strategy.
Our services
We offer the full complement of business legal services across our 10 core practice groups: corporate and commercial, including intellectual property; competition/antitrust; dispute resolution: litigation and arbitration; employment/labour; environmental; finance, projects and banking; real estate; tax; technology, media and telecommunications; and trusts and estates. We also have niche sector and service teams focusing on a variety of industries and business sectors, including aviation, black economic empowerment, energy, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, infrastructure, insolvency and restructuring, Islamic finance, mergers and acquisitions, mining, occupational health and safety, outsourcing, pensions, projects and public-private partnerships, public sector law and private equity. We are committed to providing pragmatic
and effective business solutions, and to ensuring an excellent service experience.
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Understanding our clients and their needs drives everything we do.
Recognition
At Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr, we are regularly ranked by clients and our industry peers as a first-rate firm in independent surveys and many of our lawyers are highly recommended in their respective fields.
No 1 M&A legal adviser: Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr
was ranked No 1 Legal Adviser in the Ernst & Young Review of M&A activity in 2009 and No 1 by Deal Flow for 2009 in the DealMakers M&A awards, with 70 deals valued at R31.5 billion. This gives us a market share of more than 23% of the total number of M&A transactions recorded by DealMakers in 2009. Our nearest rival had 46 deals for the year.
National awards: Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr has been rated in the top two large law firm rankings over the past seven years and ranked No 1 over four years in the independent PMR.Africa annual survey, in which clients rate the top legal firms across a range of service criteria.
International awards: Selected recent
accolades include being ranked by clients as Client Care Law Firm – Africa, Commercial Law Firm – Africa, TMT Law Firm – Africa (ACQ Global Awards 2010). Chambers Global 2010 has ranked our IT and telecommunications practice in Band 1 and our corporate/M&A, dispute resolution, competition and tax practices in Band 2. World Tax 2010 has ranked our tax practice as one of South Africa and the world's finest, claiming a Tier 2 ranking among the top five South African law firms with tax practices and the top four accounting firms.
The Legal 500 Europe, Middle East & Africa
Series, 2009 has ranked us in the top tier for corporate/M&A, dispute resolution, mining, and projects and infrastructure, and in tier 2 for banking and finance, and labour and employment. Our IP practice is also highly ranked.
Our clients
Our clients include leading national and
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