Jackwell Feris

Practice Areas

Jackwell Feris is a Director in our Dispute Resolution Practice and the Sector Head: Industrials, Manufacturing & Trade.

Career

Jackwell has over 15 years' experience in the Oil & Gas, Mining & Minerals, Energy & Power, Infrastructure & Transport, Government & State-Owned Sectors having represented governments, state-owned entities and private commercial parties and investors in complex disputes providing dispute prevention, dispute avoidance and dispute resolution services and providing advisory work on projects and/or transactional matters. He has developed depth of skills and experience in oil and gas laws, energy laws, mining laws, constitutional and general public law matters, public procurement and public finance law, international arbitration law, public international law, international investment law, international trade law, climate change laws.

Jackwell as the Sector Head: Industrials, Manufacturing & Trade, works closely with several of CDH's leading professionals in consolidating CDH's services in, amongst others, heavy industries and future industries such as clean hydrogen, e-mobility, robotics & automation.

The Industrials, Manufacturing & Trade Sector of CDH was born from the need to provide our clients with a dedicated service to economic industries that, amongst others, require to decarbonise flowing from industries such as mining and minerals, energy and power, Oil & Gas and other natural resources industries that will be the catalyst for the industrialisation of Africa under the African Continental Free Trade Area.

Professional Memberships

Education:

LLB, North West University, Potchefstroom: 2005

Admitted as attorney and notary public: 2008

LLM in Corporate Law, University of the Witwatersrand: 2012

Certificate in Economics for Law, University of the Witwatersrand: 2015

Certificate in International Commercial Arbitration, Washington College of Law: 2017

Attended and completed the International Investment Treaties and Investor State Arbitration Seminar, International Law Institute: 2017

Memberships:

Director and Executive Member of the Underground Coal Gasification Association of South Africa

Member of the Fossil Fuel Foundation and South African Oil & Gas Alliance

Member of the African Arbitration Association