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BCLR Step Ahead Newsletter No. 2/2010

Negligent investment advice: a bank tries to compel an employee to reimburse it for compensation paid to a bank client

The Insolvency Act allows certain dispositions of the insolvent to be set aside in order to prevent one creditor being preferred above another

The court has no sympathy for business people who fail to protect their interests by way of a contract

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2010 FIFA World Cup™ in South Africa - the Do's and mostly the Don'ts

Employment Opportunities for Candidate Attorneys

Series of articles for entrepreneurs entitled "Law & the Entrepreneur" published by BCLR in:


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Recent Awards & Ratings

Specific Awards
1 International Legal Alliance Summit: Silver Award 2010
 

On 3 June 2010, Brink Cohen le Roux received a Silver Award 2010 for a third successive year. The award was made to distinguished firms in the "Best South African Law Firm 2010" category by the International Legal Alliance Summit, consisting of general counsel and financial executives of Fortune 500 companies in 22 countries.


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2 PMR.africa Diamond Arrow Award 2010
 

In February 2010, BCLR received PMR.africa's Diamond Arrow Award 2010 as the highest rated law firm in South Africa in the medium sized law firm category in terms of Professional Management Review.africa (Pty) Ltd's annual independent survey of SA law firms conducted in 2009 in terms of a random national sample of 255 respondents comprising of in-house corporate legal advisors, MD's, CEO's, financial directors, company secretaries and senior managers. This was the second time that BCLR managed to obtain the highest overall mean score of all the rated large, medium and small firms in the country and the third time that the firm received the Diamond Arrow Award.

   
3 International Legal Alliance Summit : Silver Award 2009
 
On 18 June 2009, Brink Cohen le Roux was awarded the Silver Award 2009 for distinguished law firms in the Best South African Law Firm 2009 category by the International Legal Alliance Summit, consisting of general counsel and financial executives of Fortune 500 companies in 22 countries. The award was made on the basis of expertise in the M&A and corporate finance practice areas, as well as our firm's growth and strategy.
   
4 International Legal Alliance Summit : Silver Award 2008
 
On 12 June 2008, Brink Cohen le Roux was awarded the Silver Award 2008 for distinguished law firms in the Best South African Law Firm 2008 category by the International Legal Alliance Summit, consisting of general counsel and financial executives of Fortune 500 companies in 22 countries. The award was made on the basis of expertise in the M&A and corporate finance practice areas, as well as our firm's growth and strategy.
   
5 Professional Management Review : Diamond Arrow Award
 
During November 2007, Brink Cohen le Roux was awarded Professional Management Review's Diamond Arrow Award, by achieving the highest rating overall (countrywide) in the medium legal firm category. The survey was conducted during August and September 2007 amongst a random sample of 302 respondents comprising in-house corporate legal advisors, MD's, CEO's, financial directors, company secretaries and senior managers. BCLR's overall adjusted mean score of 4,53 (out of 5) exceeded the adjusted mean scores achieved by all rated large, medium and small law firms in the country.
   
International Listings and Rankings
1 International Who's Who of Business Lawyers
1.1 Individual Listings
1.1.1   Johan Olivier - Management, Labour and Employment
1.1.2   Johan Brink - Mergers and Acquisitions
1.1.3   Willem le Roux - Mining
 
2 IFLR 1000
2.1 Firm Listings
2.1.1   Capital Markets
2.1.2   Banking and Project Finance
2.1.3   Mergers and Acquisitions
2.2 Individual Listings
2.2.1   Johan Brink - Leading Lawyer
 
3 Chambers Global
3.1 Firm Listings
3.1.1   Banking and Finance
3.1.2   Corporate and M & A
3.2 Individual Listings
3.2.1   Johan Brink - Banking and Finance
3.2.2   Johan Brink - Corporate and M & A
3.2.3   Willem le Roux - Energy & Natural Resources: Mining
 
4 Legal 500
4.1 Firm Listings
4.1.1   Banking and Finance
4.1.2   Corporate and M&A
 
5 PLC Which Lawyer?
5.1 Firm Listings
5.1.1   Competition and Anti Trust - highly recommended
5.1.2   Banking and Finance - recommended
5.1.3   Corporate / M & A work - recommended
5.1.4   Environment - recommended
5.1.5   Labour and Employee Benefits - recommended
5.2 Individual Listings
5.2.1   Johan Brink - recommended for Banking and Finance and for Corporate/M & A work
5.2.2   Peter le Roux - highly recommended for Labour and Employee Benefits
5.2.3   Willem le Roux - recommended for Labour and Employee Benefits
 
6 Best Lawyers (The World's Premier Guide)
6.1 Johan Brink - Banking
6.2 Johan Brink - Capital Markets
6.3 Johan Brink - Corporate
6.4 Johan Brink - M & A
6.5 Willem le Roux - Employee Benefits
6.6 Willem le Roux - Litigation
6.7 Johan Olivier - Employee Benefits
6.8 Johan Olivier - Labour and Employment
 

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