Webber Wentzel

Webber Wentzel is a leading South African law firm specialising in corporate and commercial law. The firm is headquartered in Johannesburg and maintains offices in Cape Town and internationally. It provides legal services across a broad range of practice areas including mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance, competition law, dispute resolution, tax, and regulatory matters. Webber Wentzel serves major corporations, financial institutions, government entities and international clients doing business in Africa. The firm is recognised as one of South Africa's top-tier legal practices and competes with other major firms such as Bowmans, Norton Rose Fulbright and Werksmans. It employs several hundred legal professionals including partners, associates and support staff. Webber Wentzel has advised on many of South Africa's largest and most complex transactions and has a strong reputation in infrastructure, energy, mining and financial services sectors. The firm has been involved in significant regulatory and public-sector work, including matters relating to broad-based black economic empowerment (B-BBEE) compliance and transformation. It was established in the early twentieth century and has grown to become one of the most prominent legal advisers in the South African market.