Mota Africa provides the full spectrum of corporate and commercial law services across a diverse range of industries.

Our clients benefit not only from our technical excellence and local knowledge, but also from the commercial mindedness and agility of our lawyers. We pride ourselves on understanding our clients’ businesses and aligning our advice with their commercial goals. Discover the best corporate and commercial law services in South Africa with us.

Corporate & Commercial Law

Employment & Labour Law

Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Administrative & Constitutional Law

Data Privacy

Forensics

Competition Law

Corporate & Commercial Law Services

At Mota Africa, we understand the value of expert legal counsel and pride ourselves on providing commercially smart legal advice. We aim to simplify the often complex nature of corporate and commercial matters and take the time to get to know our clients’ businesses to understand their challenges, needs and goals.

Backed by years of experience, our lawyers are able to advise individuals and businesses across various sectors on mergers and acquisitions, as well as on complex transactions and contractual disputes.

Our Corporate and Commercial law services

Mergers and Acquisitions
Banking and Finance
Private Equity Transactions
Joint Ventures
Commercial Contracts
Black Economic Transactions
Corporate Governance
Exchange Control
Investments and Divestitures
Public-Private Partnerships
Due Diligence Investigations

Employment & Labour Law

Complying with labour law and employment legislation can be particularly challenging without reliable legal advice, and can end up costing employers a lot of money. It is essential for business owners to have access to legal experts to help minimise non-compliance risks that can lead to needless complications in the future.

We aim to provide clients with peace of mind knowing that they have a partner to assist with industrial relations issues, so they can focus on growing their business. Our broad range of labour law and industrial relations consulting and training services is designed to cater to the needs of both employers and employees.

Our Employment & Labour Law services

Workplace and Industrial Relations Disputes
Collective Bargaining
Employment Aspects of Commercial Transactions, including disposals, transfers, outsourcing and liquidations
Employment and Services Agreements
Employee Benefits
Employment policies and procedures
HR Handbooks
Workplace Investigations
Suspensions
Retrenchments (Redundancies) and Dismissals
Executive Remuneration

Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Resolving business disputes through court litigation can be a very stressful, costly, time-consuming affair. Our litigation team both prevent and resolve disputes, by combining in-depth knowledge and experience gained from the various dispute matters they have conducted on behalf of our clients. Our experience includes a wide range of commercial dispute resolution and litigation matters, ranging from relatively simple negotiation, mediation and arbitration matters to more complex Supreme Court and Constitutional Court litigation.

Our litigation and dispute resolution services

High Court
Supreme Court and Constitutional Court Litigation
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Arbitration
Settlement Negotiations
Legal Opinions
Ombud and Regulatory Tribunals Hearing

Forensics

Businesses already face many economic and regulatory challenges. Financial misconduct such as fraud, bribery and corruption are serious threats to any business’ stability. Mota Africa offers an array of forensic law services for businesses in the private and public sectors. Our forensic services benefit our clients in investigating and detecting financial crimes, as well as in developing safeguards to mitigate future risks.

Our forensic law services

Asset Tracing
Anti-bribery and Compliance Audits
Forensic Account Analyses
Fraud investigations
IT and Data Analysis
Anti-Corruption Policies
Employment Related Forensic Matters
Due Diligence Investigations
Fraud and Risk Management Strategies.
Financial Crime Detection
Financial Crime Prevention

Administrative & Constitutional Law

Administrative and constitutional law are the foundational pillars of any system. This area of law has a direct bearing on the ability of both individual and corporate citizens of any country to enjoy their legal rights and to access justice.

At Mota Africa, we are consistently called upon by a variety of clients to advise them on and litigate on their behalf on administrative and constitutional law matters.

Our Administrative & Constitutional law services

Public Contracting and Procurement
Advising clients (public and private) on the lawfulness of decision making by state actors
Judicial review

Data Privacy

Our team of data privacy experts advises on all aspects of data privacy, including data protection, data privacy, private data leaks, and private data management.

Our Data Privacy services

Cyber security breaches
Data protection
Transfers of personal data
Privacy Policies
Data breach responses and strategies
Records Retention and Destruction
Direct Marketing and Privacy

Antitrust & Competition Law

Non-compliance with competition laws can have a devastating effect on a business because it may attract significant (even exorbitant) fines from competition authorities.

We help our clients manage the complexities of competition law in a variety of respects, including in the context of commercial transactions (such as mergers and acquisitions), contracting and strategy. Additionally, we are often called upon by our clients to represent them in disputes with and investigations by competition authorities.

Our Antitrust and Competition law services