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Nicholas Smith

Global 2026

 Nicholas Smith Attorneys

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Environment

South Africa

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Environment - South Africa

Band 3
Individual Editorial

Nicholas Smith is an accomplished environmental lawyer with a strong standing in the market. In addition to providing compliance advice to his clients, he is a skilled advocate with notable experience before the country's courts. Based in Cape Town, his expertise covers pollution, waste and energy-related mandates.

Strengths

Nicholas Smith is very helpful and knowledgeable in the field he is briefed on. He is very much pragmatic in trying to get to a solution and we really enjoy working with him; he's an excellent lawyer.

Nicholas Smith has an impressive understanding of case law in South Africa, which is very complex in this particular field.

Nicholas Smith has a clear understanding of our broader vision and consistently structures agreements to help us realise it. His legal advice is sound and strategic, always focused on the end goal.

Nicholas has an incredible way cutting through it all and seeing what needs to be done at a point in time.

He really invests his time and energy with the client and he makes you feel like you are the only client he is dealing with. He offers good service and a wealth of experience.

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