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Attention to detail has never been negotiable when it comes to servicing our clients.
Attention to detail has never been negotiable when it comes to servicing our clients.
Bouwer focuses on business rescue, insolvency, mining, labour, general commercial litigation, and administrative law related matters.
He has been the lead attorney representing the business rescue practitioners in some of the largest, most complex, and most litigious business rescues in South African corporate history in restructuring companies worth billions of Rands and represented liquidators in pursuing claims in the hundreds of millions of Rands.
In addition, Bouwer has advised on many large-scale retrenchments and restructures, and had has advised on multi-million Rand damages claims in mining related arbitrations, and in doing so has worked closely with some of the most renowned experts in this field in reducing claims by tens of millions of Rands.
Bouwer advises local and international clients, listed and private companies, registered credit providers, business rescue practitioners, affected persons of companies under supervision, liquidators, creditors in insolvent estates, trade unions, charity organisations and schools (pro bono), industrialists and property developers in (among others) the mining, banking, wealth management, logistics, manufacturing, fibre optic, property, advertising, security, cigarette and restaurant industries.
He regularly publishes articles in professional legal magazines and the mainstream media and is often invited to make television appearances and host webinars to discuss specific and everyday legal topics.
Bouwer has represented clients in the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court of Appeal, the High Courts, Parliament, the Competition Commission, the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE), private arbitrations and mediations, public and private insolvency enquiries, the Companies Tribunal, enquiries in terms of the Tax Administration Act, the Labour Courts, the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA), bargaining councils and tribunals, the Court of the Commissioner of Patents, the Specialised Commercial Crimes Court and the Magistrates’ Courts.