About
Provided by Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr
CDH offers multi-disciplinary insurance law expertise, allowing a seamless and dedicated service to our clients. Our lawyers combine a detailed knowledge of the law with a commercial awareness of the insurance industry. We bring extensive insurance experience to the full range of disputes, commercial transactions and regulatory issues. Clients include the top five life offices, several large short-term insurers, brokers and various financial services providers in South Africa and abroad. These industry leaders call on our M&A team to successfully negotiate key strategic commercial transactions and provide high-level regulatory guidance. When dealing with disputes, our Dispute Resolution team work hard to resolve issues early on where possible, avoiding litigation to preserve valuable business multi-disciplinary relationships. Insurers send repeat mandates to our team, demonstrating their confidence in our ability to successfully lead them through complex legal issues arising in their environment. We have acted as counsel for leading insurers in several big-ticket commercial transactions and defended numerous actions across the full range of claims faced by leading insurers and brokers including policy based personal injury claims, fraud claims, professional indemnity claims, and all other delictual claims. We also assist insurers and brokers in contractual disputes relating claims, existence of cover and limits of cover.
Members
Provided by Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr
Charl Williams
Eugene Bester
Jaco Meyer
Rachel Kelly
Roxanna Valayathum
Roy Barendse
Susan Meyer
Tim Smit