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our forensics offering

“Dedicated and sizeable practice with specialist experience in the fields of forensic investigations and allegations of corruption relating to noteworthy international corporations. – Chambers Global Guide”

Fraud and corruption are very real risks for businesses in Africa. The vulnerability inherent in this electronic age, the reputational damage, direct costs, and the down time associated with the risk of fraud and corruption, make it critically important to select the right team to investigate, gather the facts and support a company’s management team and the responsible parties. Moreover, anti-corruption training and ensuring compliance across all levels of a company are now vital business imperatives and are the only ways to prevent exposure and combat this type of threat.

ENSafrica’s forensics department is an accredited member of the following professional organisations:

Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (“ACFE”) South African Chapter (Number 91) South African Institute of Commercial Forensic Practitioners (“ICFP”)TRACE International

our services

The key anti-bribery compliance support/forensics services provided by the team include:

preparing and implementing anti-bribery policies and proceduresanti-bribery risk assessments/registersregulatory/statutory anti-bribery compliance advice (PCCA/FICA/POCA/FCPA/UKBA/PDA)anti-bribery compliance investigations, fraud investigations, corruption investigations, theft investigations, money laundering investigations and Iive investigations into the competition regulatory environment recovering stolen money/assets and misappropriated/mismanaged public funds forensic interviews and interrogationsexpert witness testimonysurveillance/counter surveillance (detection/prevention/electronic sweeps/searches)vendor and employee screeningasset tracingliaison with law enforcement agenciesdue diligencebespoke training to assist clients in, among others, investigations, recovering losses and securing convictions in disciplinary and criminal matters

ENSafrica’s forensics team has experience advising domestic and international companies throughout Africa. The team is experienced in commercial crime investigation (using sophisticated methods) and anti-corruption compliance, with expertise in forensics, law, accounting, information technology and loss recovery.

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who is ENSafrica? ENSafrica is Africa’s largest law firm with over 600 practitioners and was established over 100 years ago.

The firm has a significant breadth and depth of experience and specialist expertise that spans all commercial areas of law, tax, forensics and IP, and benchmarks itself according to international standards while retaining a uniquely African focus.

why choose ENSafrica?

ENSafrica is committed to providing clients with innovative, world-class service with a solution-driven focus to their business, complemented by fast turnaround times and a cost-effective offering, wherever they choose to do business across Africa.

The firm offers clients high-quality know-how that covers the: legal, IP and tax systems that relate to each country on the continentpractical in-country application of legislative provisionscountry and regional business investment, risk and economic profileslocal cultural and social customs across Africa

one firm | one team

ENSafrica’s key differentiator in the market is that it operates as a unified firm across Africa. The firm does not collaborate by means of a network, an alliance nor as a “Swiss Verein” across various countries; rather, all of its offices are fully integrated and work seamlessly as one team. This means that clients are assured of a consistent and high-quality offering.

At a practice level, the firm has specialised units, each consisting of a number of practitioners who dedicate themselves to building their expertise in a specific area of law, tax, forensics or IP across Africa. Irrespective of how many business areas a transaction spans, work is done at the right level, by the person most qualified to give the client the best advice.

strategic partner

To the extent that it is required in a transaction, the firm also has in-house English law capability, for Anglophone African countries, as well as practitioners who are qualified to practise French law (relevant in Francophone African countries) and OHADA law (the legal system used for business in 17 countries in West and Central Africa).

The firm’s Portuguese-speaking lawyers are able to assist clients doing business in Lusophone African countries such as Angola and Mozambique.

ENSafrica has a dedicated China practice group (with Mandarin and Cantonese-speaking practitioners) and a focused India practice group, which facilitate China’s and India’s entry and expansion strategy into Africa, respectively.

Through the financial services centre of Mauritius, ENSafrica offers a unique possibility to integrate all aspects of structuring a client’s investment in relation to all areas of law, tax, fiduciary, forensics and IP. Mauritius is ideally located for investment and development in Africa. It is also an important strategic partner for African-Asian-Indian trade and business development into, and out of, the continent.

our awards and business areas

• advertising/ASA • Anglophone Africa • anti-bribery compliance • anti-trust/competition • arbitration and mediation • asset finance • aviation • banking and finance • BBBEE • capital markets • China • collective investment schemes • constitutional • construction and engineering • copyright • corporate commercial • corporate finance • corporate governance • corporate tax • criminal matters • customs • designs • dispute resolution • domain names • due diligence • employee benefits • employee incentives • employee tax • employment • energy • entertainment • environment • estates/estate planning • exchange control • fiduciary • fishing/marine resources • forensics • franchising • Francophone Africa • gaming/gambling • global mobility • healthcare/pharmaceutical • hedge funds • human capital • immigration • India • indirect tax • infrastructure • insider trading • insolvency/business rescue/debt recovery • insurance • international tax • international trade • IP • IT law • licensing • listed property funds • litigation • management buy-outs/takeovers • maritime • media • mergers and acquisitions • mine health and safety • mining • municipal • natural resources • occupational health and safety • OHADA • oil and gas • patents • personal injury/delict • personal tax • plant breeders’ rights • preference share funding • private clients • private equity • pro bono • project development and project finance • public private partnerships • real estate/property • regulatory compliance: JSE/TRP/FSB • retail • retirement funds • shipping, ports and logistics • sports • structured finance • swaps and derivatives • tax • technology/media/telecommunications • trade marks • transfer pricing • transport/rail/logistics • trusts • VAT • wills

Pioneering full-service firm with a large African continental network.” … “Highly competent and extremely professional, with just the right degree of personal touch.

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‘ENSafrica has always provided us with a very professional and prompt service of the highest standard,’ says one client. Others praise the ‘very good work’ of the team overall.

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The ‘practical’ team at ENSafrica is well placed to advise clients on investments into Africa, leveraging its strong network of offices across the continent.

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top tier firm

• ranked in the highest tier by top legal rankings agencies, Chambers and Partners, the Legal 500 and

IFLR1000 • named African Law Firm of the Year at The Lawyer European Awards 2016 • ranked an Elite Law Firm by the Global

Competition Review 100 (16th ed) • named Commercial Law Firm of the Year, Africa at the Acquisition International Legal Awards 2015 • named

Overall Law Firm of the Year, South Africa at the ACQ5 Law Awards 2016 • named Best International Law Firm, Mauritius at the Acquisition International Legal

Awards 2015 • named Energy and Infrastructure Law Firm of the Year, Uganda at the Corporate INTL Global Awards 2016 • ranked in the Top Tier for Leading Tax Law Firms, South Africa in the Legal 500 Tax Directors Handbook 2016 • ranked Silver for Intellectual Property, South Africa by the World Trademark Review 2016 • named Commercial Law Firm of the Year, South Africa at the African Corporate Excellence Awards 2015 • named Oil and

Gas Law Firm of the Year, Uganda at the Corporate INTL Global Awards 2016 • named Corporate Law Firm of the Year, South Africa at the Wealth and Finance International Finance Awards 2015 • Editor’s Choice winner of the Corporate Law Firm of the Year, Mauritius at the Corporate INTL Legal Awards 2015 • named a Top Foreign Law Firm for India-related work 2015 by the India Business Law Journal •

voted Employment Law Team of the Year at the African Legal Awards 2015 • voted South Africa Tax Firm of the Year and South Africa Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year at the International Tax Review European Tax Awards

2015 • received a Top Employers South Africa 2016 certification • ranked Silver for Intellectual Property, South Africa by the IAM Patent 1000 2015 • voted Best Tax Firm, South Africa at the World Finance Legal

Awards 2015 • named Litigation and Dispute Resolution Law Firm of the Year, South Africa at the InterContinental Finance and Law Magazine’s Law Awards 2015 • named

Tax Law Firm of the Year, South Africa at the ACQ5 Law Awards 2016 • named Best in Project Finance, South Africa at the Wealth

and Finance International Finance Awards 2015 • named Best in Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Law, South

Africa at the Acquisition International Legal Awards 2015 • awarded International Tax Firm of the Year,

South Africa at the Finance Monthly Tax Awards 2015 • named Best Employment Law Firm, South Africa at the 2016 InterContinental Finance and Law Magazine’s Country Awards • named Indirect Tax Firm of the Year, South

Africa at the LegalComprehensive Law Awards 2016 • named Recognised Leader in Corporate

Governance, South Africa at the Wealth and Finance International Finance Awards

2015 • named Best in Tax Law, South Africa at the Wealth and Finance International Finance Awards 2015 • named Best Employment Law Firm, South Africa at the DealMakers Country Awards 2016 • named Real Estate Law Firm of the Year, South Africa at the Corporate INTL Global Awards 2016

• Absa Bank • Agence Française de Développement • Alexander Forbes • Allan Gray • Altech • Alteo • Anglo American • AngloGold Ashanti • Anglo Mauritius • Areva • Bank One • Barclays • Barloworld • BHP Billiton • Bidvest • BP • British Airways • British American Tobacco • Caterpillar • Chamber of Mines of South Africa • China Construction Bank • China-Africa Development Fund • Ciel Group • Cipla Medpro • Citigroup • City of Johannesburg • Coca-Cola • Crédit Suisse • Deutsche Bank • Discovery • Distell • Edcon Group • Engen • ENL • Eskom • First Global Fund • FirstRand • Glencore Xstrata • Gold Fields • Gold One International • Gold Reef Resorts • Grindrod • HCI • Hitachi • Hollard • HSBC • ICICI Bank • Impala Platinum • Industrial Development Corporation • Innowind • International Finance Corporation • Investec • Itochu • JP Morgan • Jinchuan Group • Lafarge • Lagardère • Land Bank • Liberty International • Macquarie Bank • Massmart • Mauritius Commercial Bank • Mitsubishi Corporation • Morgan Stanley • MTN • National Bank of Commerce (Tanzania) • Nedbank • Neotel • Nestlé • PetroSA • Peugeot Citroën • Primedia • Proparco • Roche • Royal Bank of Scotland • SAA • Samancor • Sanlam • Sanofi Aventis • Santam • Sasfin • Sasol • Shangdong Qixing Iron Tower Co. • Shanghai Zendai Property • Shell • Siemens • Social Security Commission of Namibia • Standard Bank • Statoil • Star Communication Network Technology Co. • State Bank of India • Sun International • Sun Resorts • Swan Group • Tanzania Breweries • Tata • Telkom SA • The Namibian Association of Medical Aid Funds • The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy • Tiger Brands • Tongaat Hulett • Total • Toyota • Unilever • Visa • Vitol SA • Vodacom • Woolworths • Xerox • Zijin Mining Group Co.

some of our clients

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