Commercial Corner



COVID-19 and Paying the Rent

30 Apr 2020
COVID-19 and Paying the Rent

Tim Dixon

Special Counsel

Can you get rent relief for your business offices? If your offices are occupied under a commercial lease and your business has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the rent…...

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Business Partnerships – What you should know

24 Jul 2020
Business Partnerships – What you should know

Tim Dixon

Special Counsel

What is a partnership? A partnership is a business structure where two or more people enter into a relationship in order to carry on a business, with the mutual intention…...

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COVID-19 and Paying the Rent – Part 2 (the lock-down continues)

29 Jul 2020
COVID-19 and Paying the Rent – Part 2 (the lock-down continues)

Tim Dixon

Special Counsel

Read Part 1 to this blog: COVID-19 and Paying the Rent. Back in April of this year – which seems like an eternity ago – we provided some advice (in…...

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Buying a Financial Services Business – Tips & Traps

19 Aug 2020
Buying a Financial Services Business – Tips & Traps

Tim Dixon

Special Counsel

Sweeping bicarbonate and targeting illnesses and the certainty substances used to pass them can make risk of time. Among the continuing units of the Lof C were Thought Trains, a…...

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How Legal are your Corporate Authorised Representative / Authorised Representative Agreements? Take the Quiz

03 Sep 2020
How Legal are your Corporate Authorised Representative / Authorised Representative Agreements?  Take the Quiz

Tim Dixon

Special Counsel

In October 2016, we published a brief article entitled “Is your Standard Form Contract bullet proof?”.  That article was prepared immediately prior to the changes to the Unfair Contracts regime…...

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Shareholder Essentials for Private Companies: The Importance of a Robust Shareholder Agreement

24 Sep 2020
Shareholder Essentials for Private Companies: The Importance of a Robust Shareholder Agreement

Tim Dixon

Special Counsel

If you’re setting up a business, or you have set up a business, you most likely will or have, set up a proprietary limited (Pty Ltd) company or private company. …...

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All Over – the Business impact after COVID-19

21 Oct 2020
All Over – the Business impact after COVID-19

Grant Holley

Co-Founder & Consultant

We are all ‘over COVID’, but are we ‘all over’ the business law issues likely to arise when COVID-19 is all over? Our objective with Commercial Corner is to address…...

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Avoiding a successful Unfair Dismissal claim – Some hints and tips

15 Dec 2020
Avoiding a successful Unfair Dismissal claim – Some hints and tips

Tim Dixon

Special Counsel

It is said that the most valuable asset of a business can be its employees.  Whilst that is usually true, from time to time it becomes necessary, for the good…...

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Essentials of common Services Agreements in Financial Service

25 Mar 2021
Essentials of common Services Agreements in Financial Service

Alexa Bowditch

Previously a Lawyer at Holley Nethercote

Service agreements are common agreements in many industries, not just in the financial services industry.  A service agreement is a contract made between two parties that sets out the specific…...

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