An NDA Is More Than a Contract
You’ve got a great idea, a promising investor meeting, a potential business partner, or a new contractor who needs to see how your product really works. The instinct is often…
Supplier Agreements – Keep Your Business Moving
If you’re running a small business in South Africa, chances are you rely on suppliers every day. Someone supplies your stock. Someone manufactures your products. Someone provides packaging, materials, equipment,…
Cease and Desist Letters Avoding the Crisis
Someone has copied your logo. A former supplier is using your confidential information. A competitor has reproduced your content. Someone is making damaging statements about your business online. Your first…
Hiring? The Decisions Before the Employment Contract
Hiring your first employee is a milestone. It’s also the moment your business takes on real legal exposure. A contract template can capture the outcome of that decision, but it…
Intellectual Property Protection for Small Businesses in SA
You’ve built something worth protecting — a name, a product, a way of doing things that customers recognise. But intellectual property protection for small business South Africa is one of…
Directors Resolution and Decisions in South Africa
Your bank asks for a “board resolution” before it will open your business account. A supplier wants written proof that your co-director can sign the contract. Suddenly you need a…
Independent Contractor Vs Employee in South Africa
Hiring someone to help grow your business shouldn’t come with a legal minefield attached. Yet the question of independent contractor vs employee status in South Africa trips up more entrepreneurs…
Company Registration Documents South Africa: What You Need
Getting a CIPC certificate feels like the finish line. It isn’t. Most founders discover, a few months in, that the certificate only proves your company exists. It says nothing about…
Master Legal Operations Skills for South African Law Firms
Search “legal operations skills” and you’ll find a mountain of content, almost all of it written for firms in New York, London or Toronto. South African attorneys are left to…
Do You Need a Lawyer to Start a Business in South Africa?
You’ve searched this question because you’re stuck between two extremes: pay an attorney thousands of rand before you’ve made a single sale, or skip legal help entirely and hope nothing…
