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• Managing the company's litigation portfolio for the South Africa market; • Drafting and reviewing a diverse array of commercial agreements; • Advising and ensuring compliance with the Financial Intelligence Sector Act and/or the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act; • Providing strategic legal opinions; • Conducting due diligence proceedings for three M&A transactions worth ZAR25 Million; • Facilitating closing and post-closing proceedings; • Drafting NDA agreements (local and international); • Advising on the Protection of Personal Information Act, no.4 0f 2013; and • Assisting with drafting a power solution agreement to regulate poor grid and loadshedding on company sites.

• Completed my articles and was retained (Commercial Litigation Department); • Represented clients in both criminal (on special instance and request) and civil trials; • Managed my own caseload; • Sourced my own clients and maintained relationships; • Oversaw the day-to-day operations of the correspondent department, ensuring efficient management of support staff and candidate attorneys to promptly address all instructions, including trial appearances on behalf of correspondent attorneys; • Advised a platinum mine on, among other matters, a loadshedding exemption application; • Instituted multiple proceedings on behalf of the largest financial and credit provider in the country; and • Actively contributed to the firm's training committee.