BRYANSTON ATTORNEY

Farhana Suder is a senior legal practitioner, practicing as an attorney for the past 24 years, with the right of appearance in the High Courts of South Africa. She is a seasoned legal advisor, general counsel, director and outsourced Company Secretary to several corporate entities. 

Farhana has been and is involved as Advisor in several high-level projects spanning both the public and private sectors. She boasts extensive experience in the government and the corporate and commercial sector, spanning negotiating and drafting of contracts and commercial agreements, development of policies and procedures, risk management, litigation and litigation management, transaction advisory, deal negotiations, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance implementation and monitoring. She has been and is currently a member of the project management teams and technical briefing committees of various public sector projects, heading the legal work streams. Her role included/includes providing general legal advisory services, project legal advisory services, transaction legal advisory services, review of organizational structures, review of job descriptions and development of revised job descriptions, review of contracts with service providers and recommendations on enhancing service level agreements, and project managing the legal work-stream. 

Her involvement in public sector projects involved engagement with senior management and senior stakeholders, being responsible for overseeing and monitoring the project management and implementation of critical projects. 

She has been integrally involved in cross-border projects in Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho and Congo. 

Her role as lead Advisor and general counsel for the legal function in the private sector entails legal budget management, monitoring and management of external service providers, litigation and litigation management, assessing legal risks of business strategy, mitigation of legal risks, human resource management and operational risk management. She has advised, negotiated and drafted contracts for project financing transactions. As an experienced attorney and project manager her experience has been diverse due to the diversity of the legal and consulting space in which she is a key role player. She is seasoned in the areas of, inter alia, corporate and commercial law, employment law, business rescue and insolvency law, IP law, family and child law, property law, administrative law, administration of deceased estates, governance and compliance, forensic investigations, litigation, debt collection, procurement law, municipal laws, competition law, consumer protection law, gambling and lottery laws, foreclosures and business law. She has played a key role in transactions involving various industry sectors and legal landscapes including, inter alia, media, transport, property, telecommunications, government, gambling and lotteries, liquidations, company and property acquisitions and disposals and procurement. 

Suder Attorneys is a South African woman-owned, Exempt Micro Enterprise with 100% B-BBEE status, operating as a legal and consulting practice from Johannesburg, South Africa.

We offer Legal|HR|Governance and project consulting services with fee options ranging from hourly rates, project fixed fee rates or a monthly retainer, depending on the requirements of the business or project. 

We possess the necessary expertise to deliver exceptional professional services, with access to a network of external resources with expertise in other industry sector disciplines, to supplement our service offering.

Being a small firm gives us the advantage of reduced overheads, allowing us to offer our services at competitive rates.

Our service offering includes, inter alia, the following:

1. Contract review and advice/redrafting

2. Contract negotiation and preparation

3. Contract management 

4. Project Management/Project Support

5. Development of policies and procedures 

6. Review and amendment of policies and procedures

7. Litigation assistance/support

8. Dispute Resolution 

9. Development and implementation of performance management systems 

10. Compliance and monitoring services

11. Forensic Investigations 

12. Transaction Advisory services

13. Business Process Re-engineering and Organizational redesign 

14. Compliance and Risk Management services

15. Company secretarial services

16. Minute-taking and Transcription services

17. HR support

18. Tender writing and compilation services

19. Paralegal support services to supplement internal capacity

20. Chairing of disciplinary hearings

21. Background screening

22. Board representation

We are interested in developing collaborative business relationships on the following basis:

1. Provide a support base within South Africa from which organisations can expand service offerings within South Africa, sub-Saharan African borders and internationally

2. Offer project-specific support/services within South Africa and on global projects in terms of our remote work model

3. Offer general legal (excluding litigation), HR, company secretarial, project management and contract support services in terms of our retainer fee and project fee model

4. Offer litigation assistance at competitive rates

We are available to engage with stakeholders in a manner which is convenient, to discuss our service offering and to explore opportunities for collaboration. We are available to schedule introductory meetings via Teams/Zoom/Google Meet

Reach out to us on the following email addresses:

farhana@suderattorneys.com

info@suderattorneys.com

tenders@suderattorneys.com

OR send a WhatsApp on 0845825272