Webber Wentzel
Webber Wentzel is a leading South African law firm specialising in corporate and commercial law. The firm is headquartered in Johannesburg and maintains offices in Cape Town and internationally. It provides legal services across a broad range of practice areas including mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance, competition law, dispute resolution, tax, and regulatory matters. Webber Wentzel serves major corporations, financial institutions, government entities and international clients doing business in Africa. The firm is recognised as one of South Africa's top-tier legal practices and competes with other major firms such as Bowmans, Norton Rose Fulbright and Werksmans. It employs several hundred legal professionals including partners, associates and support staff. Webber Wentzel has advised on many of South Africa's largest and most complex transactions and has a strong reputation in infrastructure, energy, mining and financial services sectors. The firm has been involved in significant regulatory and public-sector work, including matters relating to broad-based black economic empowerment (B-BBEE) compliance and transformation. It was established in the early twentieth century and has grown to become one of the most prominent legal advisers in the South African market.
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VAT is a governance responsibility, not a compliance task
2nd November 2026 If VAT is not on your risk register, it should be. This is not simply because SARS is modernising VAT administration, audits are increasing or... →
A passport for lawyers? SADC edges toward mutual recognition
30th October 2026 Picture a regional merger and acquisitions deal spanning Gaborone, Sandton and Lusaka, or an arbitration seated in one Southern African Development... →
Making cents of public finance: Important proposed public and municipal finance reforms
29th October 2026 On 21 October 2026, National Treasury published the Draft Public Finance Management and Related Laws Amendment Bill, 2026 (the PFMA Amendment Bill)... →
Who gets to decide Africa's risk? A new rating agency enters the arena
28th October 2026 For as long as African states have borrowed on international markets, a handful of analysts sitting thousands of kilometres away have had an... →
Provisional tax changes: A higher threshold for the basic-amount alternative, but paying late could cost more
27th October 2026 The Tax Administration Laws Amendment Bill, 2026 (the Bill) tabled at Parliament proposes two changes to the underestimation penalty for... →
Cornucopia Trust – When does a finance charge become section 24J interest?
19th October 2026 The recent decision of the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) in CSARS v Cornucopia Trust [2026] ZASCA 116 (Cornucopia Trust) concerned the... →
South Africa's electricity market is being rewired at pace, and so are the rules of project finance
12th October 2026 The Department of Electricity and Energy has published the Electricity Sector Market Transformation Position Paper, 2026 (the Position Paper), the... →
The AI disclosure gap: Are insureds telling insurers enough?
12th October 2026 The pattern of commercial innovation in business is familiar: adopt new technology, discover its exposures, and then look to the insurance market... →
Africa’s next growth chapter starts with capital closer to home
9th October 2026 Africa enters the FT Africa Summit this year facing a familiar question in unfamiliar circumstances. How does the continent finance growth when... →
High Court overturns government's Black empowerment code for legal sector 
By: Reuters 8th October 2026 A South African court has overturned a Black economic empowerment code for the legal sector, ruling the government failed to properly exercise its... →
