Commercial law

Our commercial law team can assist with the drafting of contracts, advice on implementation and termination of contracts, general legal advice and services in regard to specific facts, and issues involving commercial law, insolvency law, banking law, constitutional law and administrative law.

We also register companies and close corporations and conduct company and close corporation searches. We are well positioned in Pretoria to provide these services, being in daily contact with the Companies Office and being able to address any queries in person with the Registrar or the relevant Assistant Registrar.

Featured news Fulfillment of Contractual Terms: Exactly how much effort is required? An important term to a commercial contract which is often overlooked is the term relating to the level of effort required from a party in fulfilling its obligations under the contract. While good faith will always be implied in commercial contracts, the issue of whether sufficient “effort” was made by a party to fulfill an obligation arises when such party has failed to fulfill the obligation in question. The question is usually: how much effort was required? “best effort”? “reasonable effort”? “commercially reasonable effort”? “best endeavour”?, etc. Unless the relevant level of effort required is adequately defined in the relevant contract, it is usually difficult, under South African law, to ascertain with certainty what the parties intended.   Featured office: Angola Inquiry: angola@adamsadams.com   Featured person: Apostolidis, Alexis Partner: Patent Litigation - Head : Competition Law Group Patent Attorney Tel: +27 (0) 12 432 6202