Our attorney authors are experienced practitioners in a broad range of antitrust matters-including competition law and trade regulation.
Executive at ENSafrica
Mansoor Parker is an Executive at ENSafrica in the Tax department and specialises in corporate tax, energy tax, sports tax and international tax.
Mansoor has advised clients on setting up new operations in South Africa, carrying out the necessary tax due diligence, acquiring competitors, developing tax compliant structures that optimise investment while ensuring smooth implementation and management, completing the tax-related post-deal activities, negotiating with tax authorities and devising employee compensation and retention plans.
Director at Werksmans Advisory
Ahmore is a director at Werksmans Advisory Services and the Head of the Data Protection & Privacy practice group. She extensively advises local and international clients on all aspects of regulatory compliance with specific focus on competition law and data privacy in various sectors. Ahmore advises clients throughout Africa and in particular the COMESA, CEMAC and WAEMU regions on a regular basis. She regularly undertakes compliance audits and oversees the implementation of compliance programmes and is the principle driver of the Werksmans risk assessment and e‑Learning tools as well as the co‑leader of the Werksmans Dawn Raid Team. Ahmore is a regular convenor, speaker and participant at local and international conferences and seminars on competition law and data privacy. Ahmore is a member of the International Association of Data Privacy Professionals and is currently reading towards her LLD (Data Protection). Ahmore is co-author of the textbook: A Commentary on the Protection of Personal Information Act, LexisNexis, 2018.
CEO & Chairperson of the Board, LexisNexis South Africa
Videsha is a corporate leader who stands at the forefront of the dynamic South African technology space. Prior to joining LexisNexis, she was the Data Centre Group Director for EMEA Territory and the GM for Intel. She was named the most influential Woman in Business and Government for ICT Africa. She was spotlighted by Forbes as a change maker in Africa. In 2017 Videsha was recognized as one of the 50 most inspiring women in South Africa by the Inspiring Fifty initiative. In 2019 Videsha was recognised as part of the ‘Africa 50’ - The 50 Leaders in Data Centers and Cloud, driving change in Africa.
Legal Outreach and Compliance Lead – Multichoice
Nonhlanhla has a career spanning over 20 years, working for some of the leading players in banking and broadcasting in South Africa and the rest of the African continent. During her career she acquired immense business, strategy development, stakeholder management and innovation skills. Most recently, she has been at the forefront of introducing corporate governance initiatives in the broadcasting industry, which have included the implementation of a contracts management forum and a legal compliance conference.
Head of Arbitration
Barry specialises in international arbitration and commercial litigation. He trained and practised at Jones Day before joining Pinsent Masons. At LexisNexis, Barry is Head of Arbitration and Head of the Lexis®PSL Dispute Resolution Group.
In practice, Barry’s work included commercial, aviation and technology arbitrations pursuant to international arbitral rules, involving UK and international clients. He also has a background in general commercial, civil fraud and IT litigation, including experience before the High Court. While in private practice, Barry worked with a broad range of clients from the private and public sectors.
At LexisNexis, when not focused on the strategic development and operational requirements of the Dispute Resolution Group, Barry’s content work focuses on the law and practice of international commercial arbitration and investment treaty arbitration. In addition to his work for Lexis®PSL, Barry contributes to the LexisNexis Dispute Resolution Blog and New Law Journal on litigation and arbitration matters
Expert in Traffic and Transport legislation
Alta Swanepoel is the contributing author to the Road Traffic & Road Transport Legislation Volumes I to IV published by Lexis Nexis. She was a member of the AA Technical Committee and has been a part-time lecturer at the University of Johannesburg at the Department of Transport Economics since 1992.
Alta specialises in road traffic and transport legislation and drafting of road traffic and transport legislation and has been involved in the development of AARTO legislation, e-toll legislation, the TCSP (technical committee for standards and procedures of traffic control and traffic control equipment), refresher course training for traffic officers and more.
Vice President, Law Society of South Africa
Mabaeng Lenyai is the Vice President of the Law Society of South Africa (LSSA) – the voluntary representative body of Attorneys in South Africa. Ms Lenyai is an attorney and director at Mabaeng Lenyai Inc in Pretoria. She holds the BProc and LLB degrees from the University of Limpopo and the University of KwaZulu-Natal respectively.
Lenyai was appointed as an acting judge at the Gauteng Division of the High Court (Superior), Pretoria. She was admitted as an attorney in 1998 and is a notary and conveyancer. She has been a council member of the LSSA since 2015 and the Chairperson of the Black Lawyers Association’s (BLA) Northwest branch for four years. Since 2018 she has been a member of the National Executive Council of the BLA, where she is the Secretary General. Lenyai as part of her social commitment, is a council member of the Community Education Training Centre in Mmakau and a legal adviser on Motsweding FM.
LexisNexis Account Manager and Corporate Software Specialist
George Findlay is a seasoned attorney, who has experience in notary and conveyancing. After practicing law for 10 years, George joined LexisNexis where he has worked closely with conveyancing and banking software platforms, building an impressive client list along the way. Since 2011 George has been able to leverage his insights from his practising days and has helped grow the Lexis Sign customer base, where he has become the thought leader regarding digital signatures
Director of Climate Legal
Olivia Rumble is a Director of Climate Legal with 10 years’ legal practice experience specialising in environmental law, energy law policy and governance, climate change (mitigation and adaptation), climate finance, carbon markets, and carbon tax. Olivia is admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa (Gauteng and Western Cape), and holds a PPE (Politics, Philosophy and Economics, University of Stellenbosch); an LLB (University of Cape Town); and an LLM in Environmental Law (University of Cape Town - with distinction). She has a strong background in water law as well as climate change law, and has acted for governments and regional institutions by pioneering legal reform initiatives in climate change and water law in South Africa and SADC. She regularly counsels clients on the legal considerations relevant to emerging opportunities in low carbon development and sustainable energy practices and has expertise in South Africa’s complex air quality and greenhouse gas legal regime.
Managing Director at Kaleidocode Pivot
My name is Pebble Thabile Hlubi. I am the Managing Director at Kaleidocode Pivot, a company company I co-founded with Kaleidocode owners. We specialize in software testing, project management and software development. I am a Project Manager by profession with just over 10 years experience in the ICT industry managing network and infrastructure as well as software development projects.
I am very vested and passionate about driving forward women and youth empowerment. Given the time and opportunity I do motivational talks and mentoring is a newly added responsibility that I've undertaken this year.
I am extremely family oriented and love spending quality time with my family. On the odd energetic days I can be found running and exercising. I'm a Christian and love going to church
House of Constituent member of the Law Society of South Africa
Eunice Masipa is the Director of Masipa Attorneys based in Pretoria. She holds an LLB degree from the University of Limpopo and was admitted as an Attorney in 2015.
She is the National Projects and campaign coordinator of National Association of Democratic Lawyers and a House of Constituent member of the Law Society of South Africa. Ms Masipa is an activist of social justice and human rights for all, she believes in equality and African leadership.
Director
Director at The HR & IR Consultancy and was voted the HR director of the year in 2018 by the Futures Forum
Governance Risk and Compliance Consultant
Natasha Kistan is a Governance Risk and Compliance Consultant with LexisNexis South Africa.
She is responsible for advising and implementing LexisNexis bespoke GRC systems for clients and providing training as well as ongoing support.
Natasha has 16 years of experience in the financial services industry, holding various management and senior management positions.
Over the latter part of her career she has worked and gained knowledge and skill with respect to compliance risk analysis and risk management.
DIRECTOR, HEAD OF INSOLVENCY, BUSINESS RESCUE & RESTRUCTURING PRACTICE
Eric Levenstein has been a director of Werksmans Attorneys since 1993 and is the head of the firm’s Insolvency, Business Rescue & Restructuring practice. He specialises in litigation and dispute resolution with a particular focus on business rescue, insolvency and restructuring, banking and finance and corporate recovery of debt. His expertise extends to director liability issues. He regularly delivers seminars and writes for various publications on these topics among others. He is the Chairperson of the South African Restructuring & Insolvency Practitioners Association (SARIPA) and sits on the board of INSOL International, a worldwide group of insolvency practitioners. Eric has BCom and LLB degrees, Higher Diplomas in Company Law and Tax, a Diploma in Insolvency Law and a Doctorate of Laws in Business Rescue.
Responsible for the maintenance and development of a segment of legal content
Sumantha has been with LexisNexis for over 12 years and is responsible for the maintenance and development of a segment of our legal content, working to enhance customer experience and drive revenue growth. Her areas of specialty are Family Law, Criminal Law, Civil Procedure and Constitutional Law. Her focus is interacting with our customers to understand their needs and challenges so that we can help them become better practitioners, judicial officers and prosecutors as well as building and maintaining strong and effective relationships with authors. Sam has a BProc from the University of KwaZulu Natal and is a qualified attorney.
Author and independent consultant
Author and independent consultant: Terry Harrison is the only independent eDiscovery Consultant in South Africa and he advises law firms, corporations, and service providers. He is a regular speaker and writes an award-winning blog on the subject. Previously Terry spent 25 years as a litigation fee earner in law firms in the UK before moving into litigation technology where he was MD of a UK litigation technology provider in London for 15 years. He was one of the founders of eDiscovery in the UK, organising and speaking at the first ever UK eDiscovery seminar in 2003. In 2014 Terry moved to Cape Town with his South African wife intending to retire. Terry has single handedly pressurised the Dept of Justice to incorporate eDiscovery into the Uniform Rules of Civil Procedure and the Rules Board have now established a Task Force to deal with this, a move supported by the South African Law Reform Commission which mentions Terry in its discussion paper on legal fees.
Acting Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
Judge Kollapen is an acting Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from July 2017 and has served as a Judge of the High Court of South Africa, Gauteng Division, Pretoria, since 2011. He is also the Chairperson of the South African Law Reform Commission. Justice Kollapen has previously served as a lecturer at the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria. Moreover, he has served on the board of many civil society organisations, including the Legal Resources Centre, the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, IDASA, and the London based Article 19. For LexisNexis Judge Kollapen represents a breed of great legal minds who see technology as an enabler to advancing the Rule of Law.
Chartered Accountant (SA)
Yvonne Rossouw is a Chartered Accountant (SA) with 10 years’ experience in the auditing and accounting profession. She has been part of the ProBeta team since 2015, facilitating auditing and Probe courses as well as legislative and tax courses. She develops new courses and updates material with legislative changes each year. She is responsible for developing and presenting the Audit International course and works together with clients to develop this course to their specific needs. She also consults clients on compliance with FICA and POPIA as well as other legislative, accounting and auditing topics.
Yvonne volunteers on various committees and working groups within IRBA and SAICA to provide input and guidance in the development of the auditing and accounting profession.
She has a passion for working with people and transferring the knowledge she has obtained to others in order for them to progress in the profession