Sammy was admitted as an attorney in 1981, a notary in 1987 and as a conveyancer in 1989. He obtained a BA Law degree at the University of the Westville in 1975 and a LLB degree at the University of Witwatersrand in 1980.

Sammy has regularly acted as a judge of the High Court of South Africa, Gauteng Division, Pretoria since 2002, for many years served on the board of conveyancing examiners for the competency-based examinations and as a member of the evaluation committee for the appointment of regional Magistrates in Pretoria, is a member of the disciplinary committee of the Legal Practice Council as well as the investigating committee and review committee of the Legal Practice Council.

Sammy is an experienced conveyancer and his field of expertise includes all aspects of conveyancing, property law, wills and deceased estates and notarial contracts and the authentication of documents and apostille certificates.

Hannes was admitted as an attorney, notary and conveyancer on 25 October 1988. His academic qualifications include the B-Iuris and LLB degrees, as well as a LLM degree in Banking and Stock Exchange Law and various university certificates in inter alia accounting and economics from the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland.

He completed a course in Fintech: Disruption in Finance with the University of Cape Town in 2023, as well a course on Blockchain and Crypto Applications: From Decentralised Finance to Web 3 with the Sloan School of Management of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States in 2024. These courses really got his interest going in the evolving field of crypto assets, decentralised finance and the tokenization of assets.

He founded the firm on 1 August 1991 and expanded with the opening of the Johannesburg office in 2003 and the Cape Town office in 2024.

He served on the Property Law Committee of the Pretoria Attorneys Association for many years, as well as on the board of conveyancing examiners for the competency-based examinations for more than 20 years.

His field of expertise spans from the drafting of commercial agreements, mining law, the structuring of mining and prospecting transactions, to banking law, property law, property developments, all aspects of conveyancing and mortgage bond registrations, High Court litigation and notarial contracts and the authentication of documents and apostille certificates.

Celeste obtained the B.Iuris degree from the University of Pretoria in 1991 and the LLB degree from the University of South Africa in 2008.

She completed her articles and her attorneys’ admission examinations and conveyancing examinations in the 1990s and was admitted as an attorney and conveyancer in 2019. She joined our firm’s conveyancing department in 2001.

Celeste specialises in property law and all conveyancing related matters,  property developments, the drafting of agreements, wills and the administration of deceased estates and has more than 30 years’ experience in her field of expertise.

Lesego was admitted as an attorney in 2020.

She obtained an LLB degree in 2016 and joined our firm’s banking litigation department in 2022.

Lesego also gained experience in the regulatory compliance aspects of the Financial Intelligence Centre Act, is the firm’s FIC compliance officer and was involved in the compilation of the firm’s Risk Management Compliance Program.

Her areas of expertise include asset-backed litigation, family law and general litigation in both the High Court and Magistrates’ Court.

Leon obtained a LLB degree from the University of Pretoria in 2002 and was admitted as an attorney in 2004.

He joined the firm in December 2016 in our banking litigation department with a focus on asset-backed litigation and defended litigation and manages the Vehicle and Asset Finance book, some foreclosure matters as well as defended litigation.

Prior to joining the firm, he was a junior partner in the litigation department of a reputable law firm in Pretoria which specialises in banking litigation.

Leon gained valuable experience in dealing with various financial institutions and his field of expertise includes High Court and Magistrates’ Court litigation, asset based litigation, family and matrimonial matters, general litigation and collections for specifically homeowners’ associations and body corporates.

Mirinda was admitted as an attorney in 1999 and as a conveyancer and notary in 2006. Her academic qualifications include the B.Proc, LLB and BA.HSSS (applied psychology for professional contexts) degrees, as well as various university certificates.

Mirinda is a qualified arbitrator and obtained a Certificate in Arbitration from the Association of Arbitrators (Southern Africa) in 2011 and on invitation became a Fellow of the same institution in 2015.

Mirinda was previously a partner with a law firm in Johannesburg and had her own law firm in Knysna until 2011, when she decided to join the Cape Bar as an advocate in 2012.

She passed the Bar Association’s admission examination in 2012 and practiced as such until September 2020, when she joined Standard Bank as senior manager in the foreclosure department. She returned to private practice in January 2024 when she joined our firm.

Mirinda is also a Commissioner for the Small Claims Court in Cape Town.

Her field of expertise includes High Court banking and general litigation, property law, property developments, property and mortgage bond registrations, family law, mediation and arbitration matters and notarial work and notarial contracts and the authentication of documents and apostille certificates.

Cecilia is an admitted attorney (2008), notary (2011) and conveyancer (2016) and obtained the B-Com Law and LLB degrees from the University of Pretoria in 2005 and 2007 respectively. She joined our firm in 2015.

Cecilia’s experience spans a wide spectrum ranging from property developments, property law, conveyancing and mortgage bond registrations, High Court banking litigation, mining title registrations, the administration of deceased estates, notarial contracts and the authentication of documents and apostille certificates.

Allen was the Chief: Deeds Training with the Department of Justice from 1 July 1984 to 30 September 2014 and is presently a Property Law Consultant with our firm serving clients countrywide.

Allen joined our firm in August 2024.

He is the co-author of numerous books on conveyancing and has published more than one hundred articles in leading law journals. He also regularly posts articles on Ghost Digest.

Allen is also a lecturer extraordinaire at the University of Pretoria and a moderator and consultant of conveyancing subjects lectured at the University of South Africa.

He has presented courses for the LSSA (LEAD) since 1984 and has served on the following boards: Sectional Titles Regulation Board, Deeds Registries Regulation Board and Registrars’ Conferences, as well as numerous other related committees.

Allen was the editor of the South African Deeds Journal since its inception until September 2014. Allen West obtained his qualifications (NDRD) from Unisa and a certificate in land tenure from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in the United States.

He is the author of The Practitioners Guide to Conveyancing and Notarial Practice (3rd Edition) 2024 which is presently the leading book on Conveyancing and Notarial Practice in South Africa, and co-authored various other publications on conveyancing and notarial practice.