Nsapato & Co. Advocates

Dispute resolution is often marred by uncertainty. Uncertainty in the cost of prosecuting or defending the action, uncertainty in the outcome of the matter. Whether litigation or arbitration, it makes planning at both business and individual level absolutely difficult.

Our robust team of experts and consultants have redefined the basic rules. With intimate anatomy of your case, our team ensures that you fully understand every step of the way and work tirelessly to safeguard your interests.

1. International and domestic commercial arbitration
2. Construction arbitration
3. Commercial and corporate disputes
4. Banking financial disputes
5. Distribution agreement disputes
6. Restraint of trade
7. Insurance and reinsurance actions
8. Mining Litigation
9. Tort claims
10. Enforcement of foreign judgments and multijurisdictional conflicts
11. Employment disputes

Buying or selling property is a big decision. Whether the property is commercial, residential or farm land, you must satisfy yourself that the seller truly owns the property and that the title is ‘clean’.

Conversely, the seller desires to complete the sell expeditiously and ensure that the buyer has the means to meet the obligations on completion. If this is your decision, then our team is best suited to execute your decision. Our dedicated team in the Conveyancing and Real Estate Department will secure your interest, close the deal and get your title in record time. Contact us now!

1. Property conveyance (commercial, residential and farm land)
2. Real property due diligence
3. Gated community planning and titling
4. Real estate planning and compliance
5. Deeds of moiety, severance and partition

Our team, monitors every changing legislation and scrutinizes every court decision that redefine employment relations, to meet your needs. For employment claims, redundancy and restructuring, retrenchments and all employment related matters, contact our team.

1. General labour law advisory
2. Employment contract review and attestation
3. Collective bargaining agreements
4. Redundancy and retrenchment
5. Restructuring
6. Foreign employment related procedures and advisory

Your corporate advisory team requires not just a command of corporate legalities but an intimate knowledge of your business, your business strategy and the compliance space of your business. We offer exactly this package.

We take time to study your business and offer a legal strategy for your step by step corporate actions. With profound patience to assist startups navigate the inevitable world of regulation and compliance, we offer great value to corporations with a big balance sheet to support their growth and outperform their competition.

1. Pre-acquisition review and advisory
2. Negotiation
3. Roadmap, strategy and tactic
4. Capital restructuring advisory
5. Business sector compliance(Banking, Mining, Insurance, Construction)
6. Tax advisory
7. Commercial and corporate agreements review and advisory

Protecting your business interests demands ability and agility. We have both, in addition to the strategy and tactic to ensure that your intellectual property rights are not only solidly safeguarded but also viciously defended. Our IP desk will manage your IP rights including regional filings, renewals of trademarks, patents, designs and copyrights.

Further, we provide thorough advise and a checklist to ensure that your business operates within the competition rules. We will also defend you when confronted by your competitors or the authority. Our exposure to US and EU competition law gives us an edge in the analysis of local competition rules.

1. General IP advisory
2. Domestic and Regional IP filing – trade marks, patents and registered designs
3. Copyright enforcement
4. IP audit and due diligence
5. IP litigation – Defence and enforcement
6. Trade secrets – Advisory and protection
7. Competition law advisory -domestic and regional
8. Competition Commission filings – mergers and acquisition
9. Competition law Enforcement and Defence- Before the Tribunal and courts