· Solutions
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.
Building at speed, in regulated and gaming sectors. We protect your rights and grow the value you are creating, so your commercial position is defensible and stands when a regulator, a bank or a buyer opens the file.
Protecting what he has built: multi-generational wealth, the trust and the operating company, succession and the control of an estate held inside the business. Asset and reputation, protected as one file.
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 areaThe EBi Vanguard Retainer
One senior attorney, retained monthly, accountable for the operational legal work, the structuring strategy and the protection of the firm's name. The whole strategy held under one hand, from first instruction through to the order.
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.