Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs


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Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs

150 West Street Sandton
Johannesburg 2196
South Africa

Phone +27 11 269 7600

Law Firm Overview

ENS (Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs) is Africa’s largest law firm, with over 400 legal, forensic, tax and IP practitioners. ENS benchmarks itself according to international standards, but retains a uniquely African focus making it well-equipped to advise clients wherever they may choose to do business. The firm was established over 100 years ago and currently operates out of its Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and Stellenbosch offices in South Africa making it one of the oldest and most experienced full service law firms in Africa. ENS is proud to be a level 3 BBBEE contributor.

ENS has amassed numerous prestigious awards and world-wide recognition as a result of its innovative, world-class and solution driven approach. The firm was recently awarded Middle East & African Law Firm of the Year at the prestigious British Legal Awards 2010 and was voted Legal Adviser of the Year for Sub Saharan Africa at the Merger Market M&A Awards 2010 in London. ENS was voted Best Law Firm in South Africa by the jury at the International Legal Awards (ILA) in Paris, winning the Golden Award for 2010. The firm has won this prestigious award for the past 3 consecutive years. The firm has been widely recognised and praised for its excellent client service, being rated the Most Trusted Law Firm and Client Care Law Firm of the Year in Africa in the Acquisition Finance Global Awards 2010.

The key to the firm’s success and its differentiator is its ‘one-firm and teamwork’ approach. This means that instead of working across business areas, the firm has specialist teams comprising a number of practitioners who are dedicated to, and focused on, their specific area of law. Clients therefore receive the benefit of innovative solutions because of each practitioner’s in-depth experience and expertise in their respective area of specialisation, which is then supplemented by the knowledge of the practitioners in other specialist areas whenever the need arises – this ensures that the client always gets the best and most cost effective advice irrespective of what and how many different business areas a transaction may require.

Not only is ENS a full service firm offering Corporate Commercial and Litigation advice to clients but what sets it apart is the firm’s specialist departments which include Africa, Banking and Finance, Tax, Competition, Employment, Media and Telecommunications, IT and Technology, Immigration, Insolvency, Business Rescue and Debt Recovery, IP, Oil and Gas, Sport, Private Equity, Projects, Real Estate / Property, Environment, Public Sector, Private Client and Forensics, amongst others.

ENS is geared to offer its services anywhere on the African continent. Whether working closely with a client’s trusted advisor in cross-border matters, or assisting clients directly, ENS is ideally placed to ensure that all transactions involving South Africa and/or African countries can be optimised and managed from a local and geographic perspective, so as to ensure maximum return for the client.

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