Johan van Zyl

Firm:

Areas Of Practice:

Antenuptial Contracts, Appraiser / Valuer, Association Agreements, Bankruptcy Law, Black Empowerment, Business Law, Capital Gains Tax, Commercial, Commercial Drafting, Company Law, Company Registrations, Competition Law, Construction, Consumer Law, Contracts, Conveyancing, Copyright, Corporate, Credit Law, Cross Border Mergers & Acquisitions, Cryptocurrency Law, Cyber - Bullying / Defamation / Stalking, Deceased Estates, Designs and Copyrights, Due Diligence Audits, Employee Share Incentive Schemes, Employment Law, Estates, Exchange Control, Expropriation Law, Finance (Corporate), Finance (Project), Finance (Structured), Financial Markets, Financial Services Law, Franchising, General Practice, Government Housing Applications, High Court Practice, Immigration / Emigration, Industrial Law, Information Technology, Insolvency, Insurance Law, Intellectual Property, International trade laws & treaties, International Transactions , Internet Law / E-Commerce, Investment Funds, Joint Ventures and Acquisitions , Land Claims, Land Rights, Leases, Legislative Drafting, Licensing, Litigation (Commercial), Litigation (Corporate), Litigation (General), Litigation (Land Claims Court), Litigation (Tax), Media , Medical Negligence, Mergers and Acquisitions, Mineral Law/Rights, Mining, Municipal Law, Notary / Notaries Public, Partnership Agreements, Planning Law, Privatisations, Property Law, Sale of Business, Sectional Title, Servitudes, Shareholders Agreements, Social Media, Sports, Stock Exchange Practice, Taxation, Taxation (International), Town Planning, Township Establishment, Trade and Industry, Trademarks, Trusts, Wills

Phone Number:

0860 061 061

Cell Number:

0832283228

Docex:

41 Hatfield

Email address:

johan@wvz.co.za

Position:

Director

Years of Practice:

Address:

1st Floor Suite 6 @Lynnwood Law Chambers 474 Lynnwood Road Lynnwood Pretoria

Region:

Gauteng / Pretoria

Area:

Lynnwood

Postal Address:

P. O. Box 13311, Hatfield, 0028

Qualifications:

(B Proc UP, Adv Tax Cert UNISA)
Admitted as an Attorney in the High Court of South Africa
Admitted as a Conveyancer in the High Court of South Africa
Admitted as a Solicitor in the Senior Courts of the England and Wales

History:

Mr. van Zyl is an admitted attorney and conveyancer and is currently the Managing Director of Wessels + van Zyl Inc.

Mr. van Zyl studied at the University of Pretoria and obtained the B-Proc degree in 1995. He was admitted as an attorney and conveyancer to the High Court in 1996 and further obtained the post graduate Advance Taxation qualification at the University of South Africa in 1997. Mr. van Zyl started the attorney practice in 1998 and later, in 2008, sold his practice to Wessels + van Zyl Incorporated, the company under which he now serves as Managing Director.

During 2008 and 2009 Mr. van Zyl completed all the legal requirements to be admitted as a Solicitor in the Senior Courts of England and Wales and was admitted as such on 1 December 2009.

As a practising attorney Mr. van Zyl has distinguished himself as a commercial attorney specializing in property law, commercial law, company law, taxation law, mergers and acquisitions and trust law. As confirmation of the financial industry's trust in Mr. van Zyl, the firm was appointed as a panel attorney of Nedbank, Absa Bank, First National Bank and Standard Bank. His firm served on the preferred panels of Absa Private Bank, Standard Bank Wealth and Investment as well as First National Bank.

Mr. van Zyl has a broad client base comprising of multinational corporations, property developers, private equity companies, investors and BEE empowered companies. Mr van Zyl has been material in assisting his clients in various fields of commercial law, tax law, company law and trusts and estate law. His valuable legal knowledge of business and the above fields of expertise has distinguished him as a valuable asset to the firm.

Mr. van Zyl, in his capacity as South African attorney and UK solicitor has settled various international and cross border commercial agreements in the IT, mobile, mining, clothing and franchise industries.

Languages:

Afrikaans, English, Italian, Portuguese