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A firm is known by what it is prepared to put its name to. This is the map of how we solve.
Five solution areas, read as one practice. Each speaks to a principal who wants their rights protected and their value grown, whether you are an operator building at speed, or a founder protecting what you have already built and the wealth held inside the business. Choose where your matter sits, and go in.
The position
Over two decades in advanced corporate law, for businesses exposed to risk that sits above the contract. Held behind a legal licence: the privilege that protects what a client tells a lawyer, and the indemnity that stands behind the advice.
That is the difference between a consultant's opinion and counsel a business can rely on. EBi Law is a values-based firm built for disruption. The five areas below are the matters the firm is most often asked to take, set out so the principal they concern recognises the work.
The five areas
Five solution areas. One accountable hand.
Not a list of practice areas, a map of how the firm solves. Each area carries the same principle: empowerment is a market-opening instrument and not a compliance tax, governance is suspension and not brakes, and the object throughout is to protect your rights, secure your progress and grow the value you are building. Go into the one that fits your matter.
B-BBEE as a market-opening instrument
Done properly, empowerment ownership wins licences and contracts and rewards the shareholders who hold it. Done as a certificate, it costs the business more than it saves. For a family holding structure it is the lever that opens the market while keeping control where it belongs.
Open this areaGaming and gambling, done properly
Product legality, provincial licensing, genuine ownership and reputational risk are one matter, not four, while the industry is re-regulated. The operator who reads the field early protects what they are building rather than chasing the licence after the fact.
Open this areaGovernance that enables decisive owners
Good governance is suspension, not brakes. It should let a decisive owner act, not slow the business down. The test is whether the structure holds when a regulator, a bank or a buyer opens the file, and whether the institution stays intact when it is challenged.
Open this areaMonthly business legal support
An ongoing relationship with Eugene Botha for the ordinary legal work and decisions your business faces. A fixed monthly fee, without counting calls or documents, with substantial separate matters discussed before work begins.
Open this areaTrack record and approach
How the firm works, and the standard it holds itself to. Law read across four dimensions, the legal ground, the people, the downside and macro risk, with the elements put in the right order at the right moment to protect the client's rights and grow the value they are building.
Open this areaSpeak to us
If you move fast and are building something of value, bring it here.
Not sure which area your matter sits in? Bring it while your rights, your progress and your value can still be protected. Every approach is treated in confidence, and we will say plainly whether this is the right firm for the matter, or whether it belongs elsewhere.