BDK ATTORNEYS

About Commercial Contracts

We have extensive experience in drafting and negotiating various forms of commercial contracts, including:

• distribution;
• agency;
• sales and marketing​;
• sponsorship;
• terms and conditions of sale and purchase;
• joint ventures;
• supply;
• franchising;
• confidentiality.
• Sales Option agreements
• Service Level agreements
• Share Buyback agreements
• Share Option agreements
• Share Sale agreements
• Shareholders’ agreements
• Sale of Business Agreement
• Buy and Sell Agreement; and
• Lease Agreements

General Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution

Irrespective whether our client is the plaintiff, defendant, applicant, respondent we deem it to be imperative that you know what remedies or defences are available to you.

We represent clients in various spheres corporate and commercial litigation, as well as in other dispute such as insolvency disputes, property disputes, contractual disputes, and employment disputes only but to name a few.

In doing so, clients rely on our specialists to resolve disputes in the Magistrate’s Court, High Court, Supreme Court of Appeal, as well as in the Constitutional Court of South Africa.

We proud ourselves on providing professional and effective service whilst maintaining a strategy to support our clients.

Individual Employment

We work with corporates and individuals on various individual employment law matters, such as:

• assistance in drafting and negotiating employment contracts for executives, managers, permanent employees, employees for a fixed term, independent contractors and cross-border secondment arrangements;
• assistance with disciplinary proceedings;
• advice in relation to redundancies and restructurings;
• advice in respect of the employment aspects of liquidations and business rescue proceedings;
• advice in relation to unfair dismissals and unfair labour practices;
• advice in relation to discrimination law and disputes, including sexual harassment;
• advice relating to drafting and enforcing restraints of trade.

Family Law and Matrimonial Matters

We assist clients with a number of family and matrimonial related matters, including:​​

• Divorce disputes
• Children’s Court Application
• Domestic Violence Disputes
• Harassment Disputes
• Custody Applications
• Maintenance hearings
• Rule 43 applications
• Relocation Applications

Property Law

We assist clients with a number of property related matters, including:​​

• Rei Vindicatio Applications
• Spoliation Applications
• Interdicts
• Eviction Applications

CRIMINAL LAW

• Crimes Against Bodily Integrity
• Crimes Against Dignity and Reputation
• Crimes Against Life
• Crimes Against Property
• Crimes Against Public Welfare
• Crimes Against the Administration of Justice
• Crimes Against the State
• Sexual Crimes
• Statutory Offences