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Christiaan Cronjé
Christiaan Cronjé is a Namibian
Attorney, Notary Public. He holds
degrees in both Accounting and Law from the University of Stellenbosch and a
postgraduate diploma in Drafting and Interpretation of Contracts from the
University of Johannesburg. Christiaan serves on the board of a number of prominent
Namibian institutions. Christiaan is a
member of the Law Society of Namibia, the Institute for Directors in Southern
Africa and the Society for Trust and Estate Practitioners.
Practice Areas:
Christiaan provides a service
that goes further than the mere drafting of contracts. He assists
clients in understanding the transaction, provides advice on all aspects of
commercial transactions, including structure, risk, tax and financing
relating to the transaction.
Christiaan is able to assist in
the negotiation of transactions, the conducting of due diligence exercises
and managing of competition law issues.
Christiaan represents a number of clients in the financial services
sector including Namibian commercial banks, insurance companies, pension
funds and unlisted investment fund managers.
Christiaan is regularly involved in the structuring and implementation
of listed and unlisted structures with regards to debt and equity
instruments.
Christiaan is one of a handful of Namibian
liquidators that regularly accepts appointments on insolvent estates. In an economy where clients are faced with
risks relating to insolvency risks from counterparties and with regards to
their own solvency, the practical experience that Christiaan holds with
regards to insolvency law has recently proven invaluable to clients.
Chambers and Partners in its 2021
Global Edition has ranked Christiaan as one of the leading lawyers in
Namibia and indicated that Christiaan has “broad transactional expertise
covering M&A and hostile takeovers, as well as tax planning and
restructuring. His impressive client roster features a range of listed
entities and private companies.”
Christiaan can be contacted by e-mail at cronje@cronjelaw.com.
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Helene Cronjé
Helene Cronjé is a Namibian
Attorney, Notary Public and Conveyancer. Helene holds BComm (Law) and LLB
degrees from the University of Stellenbosch.
Helene is a member of the Law Society of Namibia and the International Trade Mark
Association (INTA). Helene is further a registered agent
for the filing and prosecution of trade marks and patents with the African
Regional Intellectual Property Organization.
Practice Areas:
CONVEYANCING AND
PROPERTY LAW
Helene is the responsible
partner for the conveyancing department at the firm and is involved in a
number of residential and commercial property developments, property
transfers and bond registrations. Helene is a dedicated
conveyancer and is respected for her professionalism and her efficiency. Helene is well known for the personal
attention that she gives to her conveyancing matters.
INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
Helene further manages the
intellectual property law department to excellence. She is well regarded for her effectiveness
and precision, and acts as the Namibian correspondent for a number of
international clients from the United States of America, United Kingdom,
India, China, Mauritius, South Africa and most English-speaking African
nations, regarding intellectual property matters. Helene
currently assists various Namibian banks in the management of their
intellectual property portfolios.
Helene’s experience includes trade mark searches,
filing and prosecution of trade mark applications, trade mark litigation,
trade mark maintenance, assignments, renewals, and general management of
trade mark portfolios within Namibia and Africa.
Helene regularly attends
international conferences in order to ensure that she remains up to date with
the international developments in intellectual property law.
Helene
has built relationships and networks, over the years, throughout Africa and
the world, which qualifies her to serve our global client base throughout the
continent.
GOVERNANCE
Helene manages the firm’s company
secretarial department, ensuring due diligence and compliance. Our office
ensures quality and efficiency in the secretarial department by providing our
clients with shelf companies and close corporations available immediately. We
are able to efficiently assist our clients in the registration of Namibian
Companies, Close Corporations and Trusts. We have also been actively involved
in assisting various international entities with the commencement of their
business operations in Namibia.
Helene can be contacted by e-mail at helene@cronjelaw.com.
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Heinrich Jansen
van Vuuren
Heinrich Jansen van Vuuren is
both a Namibian Attorney and a Chartered Accountant. He is a member of
the Institute for Chartered Accountants and holds a BAcc LLB degree from the
University of Stellenbosch, a BCompt Hons as well as a Postgraduate Diploma
in Taxation from UNISA.
Heinrich is further a member
of the Council of the Law Society of Namibia and a member of the tax
committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.
Practice Areas:
Heinrich heads up the commercial department
in the firm.
He comes from a commercial background,
having completed his training contract with Grant Thornton Neuhaus before
being admitted as a Chartered Accountant in Namibia. Thereafter, he gained experience in the corporate business environment
during his employment as a financial manager in the financial services
industry. Heinrich obtained in depth knowledge of portfolio optimisation,
management of company assets, financial planning, -forecasting and
-reporting, personnel management, compliance, taxation and various other
aspects of the business environment.
Heinrich is mostly engaged in the
structuring and negotiation of complex commercial transactions. He has an immaculate attention to detail
which allows him to add considerable value to clients. Heinrich has recently been engaged in a
number of listed and unlisted capital raising transactions.
Heinrich enjoys assisting clients and
consulting on the effective structuring and negotiation of complex commercial
transactions where he adds value with his working knowledge of business,
finance and taxation.
Heinrich has a reputation as an exceptional commercial attorney.
Heinrich can be contacted by email at heinrich@cronjelaw.com
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Suné de Klerk
Suné is an admitted Namibian Attorney
and Notary. She holds B-Juris and LLB
degrees from the University of Namibia and has been employed at the firm
since 2011.
During her studies she was the
recipient of the UNAM Vice
Chancellor’s Merit Award for the Law Faculty and in 2013 she was also awarded
as the best LLB student for 2013. In 2014, during her attachment, Suné
received an award as the Best Justice Training Centre (JTC) Student.
Practice Areas:
Suné heads up our litigation
department and is responsible for the litigation matters of the firm. Suné has a reputation as being a highly
efficient attorney.
Suné is currently engaged in a number
of high-profile commercial litigious matters.
She has a keen interest in insolvency law and completed the Advanced
Programme in Insolvency Litigation and Administration Practice course, presented
by the University of Pretoria, in 2020.
Suné is well regarded for her
exceptional client service.
Suné can be contacted by email at sune@cronjelaw.com.
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Stefan van Zijl
Stefan is an admitted Namibian
Attorney and member of the Law Society of Namibia. He holds LLB and LLM
degrees from the University of the Free State.
Stefan assists with research at
Mineral Law in Africa (MLiA) hosted at the University of Cape Town. The
overall aim of MiLA is the evaluation and re-conceptualisation of key legal
systems in Africa.
Practice areas
Stefan is employed in our commercial department. Stefan has experience in mining law,
competition law, tax related advice and litigation as well as general
corporate and commercial work. He enjoys assisting clients with structuring,
negotiating, and advising clients regarding the tax implications of various
commercial transactions.
Stefan focuses on assisting clients
with tax and commercial transactions and aims to provide feasible and
workable solutions to complex problems.
Stefan can be contacted by email at stefan@cronjelaw.com.
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Carmen Ribeiro
Carmen is an admitted Namibian
Attorney. She holds an LLB degree (cum laude) from the University of the Free State Carmen is currently
enrolled as a student at the Chartered Governance Institute of Southern
Africa
Carmen is a board member on one of Namibia’s most prominent charitable
organisations, the Church Alliance for Orphans.
Practice Areas:
Carmen is principally involved in our
commercial department and assists clients in the management of their Namibian
structures. This involves all aspects
from advice on Namibian law and the drafting of commercial agreements. Carmen is well regarded for the attention
to detail that she applies in the drafting or review of commercial
agreements.
Carmen has assisted a number of
clients in the establishment of intricate company structures in order to
optimise tax and operational efficiencies as well as attends to the
administration of existing client structures.
Carmen further regularly acts as external
company secretary to various
reputable Namibian institutions, where she provides a company
secretarial function at board and shareholder meetings and duly prepares the
relevant board packs.
Carmen can be contacted by email at carmen@cronjelaw.com.
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Katherine
Amakali
Katherine is an admitted Namibian
Attorney. Katherine holds an LLM in International Trade Law from the
University of Stellenbosch and an LLB from the University of Namibia. Katherine’s LLM thesis was on the “Effect of
the Promotion of Investment Act of 2016 on the Investment Environment in
Namibia: a legal perspective.”
Practice Areas
Katherine is employed in our
commercial department. Katherine
specialises in regulatory compliance.
Katherine assists clients in obtaining the required licenses, permits
and approvals to lawfully establish and
continue with their operations in Namibia and she further assist clients in ensuring that their regulatory
reporting is done in compliance with the relevant laws and regulations. Katherine further has in depth knowledge of
competition law and regularly assists clients in the preparation and filing
of merger notices.
Within the firm’s Secretarial
Department, Katherine is responsible to act as the outsourced company secretary for Paratus
Namibia and ensures that the full outsourced company secretarial.
Katherine can be contacted by email
at katherine@cronjelaw.com
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Heike Hecht
Qualifications:
Heike Hecht an admitted Namibian
attorney, a sworn translator and holds a BA Hons. degree and Higher Education
diploma from the University of Pretoria and BA Hons. and LLB degrees from the
University of South Africa.
Practice Areas:
Heike is responsible for estate planning and estate administration at
our firm. Heike has a reputation for
being a highly efficient estate administrator. Heike assists clients in the drafting of
wills and in the administration of deceased estates.
Heike further attends to the administration of insolvent estates and to the
administration of matters where our firm is appointed as curator bonis. Heike is well regarded for the care and empathy that she employs in matters.
Heike can be contacted by e-mail at
heike@cronjelaw.com.
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Richard
Steinbach
Richard holds a Bachelor of Commerce
degree from the University of South Africa and a postgraduate LLB degree from
the University of Stellenbosch. He comes from a commercial background,
completing his attachment at a boutique commercial law firm in Cape Town and
thereafter practicing as an associate at with one of the large law firms of
South Africa.
Richard is an admitted attorney in
the High Court of South Africa as well as an admitted legal practitioner in the High Court of
Namibia
Practice Areas:
Commercial Law
Richard has experience with drafting and advising on various commercial
matters and contracts including lease agreements, distribution agreements, loan and guarantee agreements, association
agreements, non-disclosure agreements, independent contractor agreements and
sale of shares/members’ interest agreements. He has a passion for assisting
clients with negotiating favourable terms for commercial contracts.
Litigation
Richard also has a thorough knowledge
of commercial litigation as well as experience with mediation and arbitration
procedures. Richard
is currently involved in various litigious matters relating to business
interruption resulting from Covid19 lockdown regulations.
Richard can be contacted by email at richard@cronjelaw.com.
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Jacques Oosthuizen
Jacques is an admitted Namibian attorney and holds an LLB Degree from the North West University in Potchefstroom.
Practice Area
Liquidations
Jacques is employed as an administrator in our Liquidation Department. In this regard he attends to
the administration of insolvent estates.
Jacques is one of a handful of Namibian attorneys that deals with
insolvencies on a daily basis. Jacques
further regularly advises clients on the practical implications of insolvency
law on their operations.
Trust Law
Jacques is further responsible to trust administration in our Secretarial Department.
In this regard Jacques attends to the establishment of trusts on
behalf of clients and further to the day to day administration of trust
structures.
Jacques can be contacted by email at jacques@cronjelaw.com.
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Jenaé Greeff
Jenaé holds both BA
(Law) and LLB degrees from the North West University in Potchefstroom. Jenaé is attached to our firm as a candidate attorney.
Practice Areas
Jenae currently assists with trade
mark searches, filing and prosecution of trade mark applications, trade mark
maintenance, assignments, renewals, and general management of trade mark
portfolios within Namibia. Furthermore, Jenaé assists with the management of
correspondence and administration of the internal database of trade marks at
the firm.
She is also responsible for
the drafting of wills, ante nuptial contracts, under the mentorship and
guidance of Helene Cronjé.
Jenae can be contacted by email at jenae@cronjelaw.com
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Michelle Van Schoor
Michelle completed her LLB degree at the North West University in
Potchefstroom in 2019 and joined the firm in January 2020 as a candidate
attorney.
Practice Areas
Michelle is employed in our litigation department Michelle has a keen interest in medical
negligence law.
Michelle can be contacted by email at:
michelle@cronjelaw.
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Adri Badenhorst
Adri Badenhorst
holds both BCom (Law) and LLB degrees from the North West University in
Potchefstroom. Adri is attached to our firm
as a candidate attorney.
Practice Areas:
Adri assists the
Commercial Department with the execution of secretarial work and general
administration of companies and in the closing of transactions.
Adri: can be contacted by
email at adri@cronjelaw.
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Anna Mart
Adriaanse
Qualifications:
Anna-Mart holds
a LLB from the North West University in Potchefstroom.
Practice
Areas:
Anna-Mart
currently assists Helene Cronjé with Intellectual Property, including trade
mark searches, filing and prosecution of trade mark applications, trade mark
maintenance, assignments, renewals and general management of trade mark
portfolios in Namibia.
Anna-Mart
further attends to the drafting of wills and antenuptial contracts under the
mentorship and guidance of Helene Cronjé.
Contact Anna-Mart at: annamart@cronjelaw.
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Andria Kruger
Andria holds a LLB degree from University of the Free State. Andria is attached to our firm as a candidate attorney.
Andria has experience in tax related was previously employed in the PwC tax department.
She has further completed a
course in VAT with the
University of South Africa.
Practice
Areas
Andria is employed in our commercial department with a special emphasis on
commercial transactions and in providing tax advice to clients.
Contact Andria at: andria@cronjelaw.com
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