The Best Lawyers in South Africa™ Awards for 2024
For a landmark 15th edition, Best Lawyers® is honored to announce The Best Lawyers in South Africa™, highlighting the top legal talent in South Africa as voted on through a comprehensive Purely Peer Review™ process. The 15th edition of The Best Lawyers in South Africa awards 879 lawyers in 61 practice areas across four metropolitan areas. The metropolitan area with the most awarded lawyers is Johannesburg.
Best Lawyers has worked with many publications globally to highlight our awards, and for 2024, we are excited to partner with Business Day to announce The Best Lawyers in South Africa.
In addition to The Best Lawyers in South Africa awards, we also honored 46 lawyers with the esteemed “Lawyer of the Year” award. This award highlights one lawyer in each practice area and metropolitan area who receives the highest average of voter feedback from their peers. Firms with the most “Lawyer of the Year” recipients include Bowmans, ENSafrica, Norton Rose Fulbright South Africa and Webber Wentzel.
Among the 61 practice areas in which lawyers were awarded for the 15th edition, the top 10 with the most awards are Corporate Law, Litigation, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Intellectual Property Law, Labour and Employment Law, Banking and Finance Law, Construction Law, Competition / Antitrust Law, Real Estate Law and Arbitration and Mediation.
Those in South Africa who have sought legal counsel through the Best Lawyers website searched most frequently for lawyers practicing Corporate Law, Construction Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Real Estate Law, Litigation, Private Equity Law, Arbitration and Mediation, Competition / Antitrust Law and Labour and Employment Law.
A History of Excellence
Founded more than four decades ago, Best Lawyers was created with the primary goal of assisting those in need of legal counsel to find the right lawyer to meet their needs. Through the evaluation of their peers, these lawyers have been recognized as the top tier talent in their specialties.
Best Lawyers awards span 22 global markets currently, and we are honored to bring another year of awards to South Africa through our trusted Purely Peer Review process.
“Law Firm of the Year” Awards
Along with our individual awards for lawyers, Best Lawyers presents “Law Firm of the Year” awards to law firms who quality based on several factors, including lawyer feedback on ballots, how many recognized lawyers a firm has in a particular practice area, office locations, a historical look at a firm’s past “Law Firm of the Year” awards, materials submitted by the law firms and an overall look at the firm’s practice.
For 2024, Best Lawyers awarded 13 “Law Firm of the Year” awards to 11 law firms in South Africa. They include:
Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr
Real Estate Law
Clyde & Co
Insurance Law
ENSafrica
Banking and Finance Law
Tax Law
Fasken
Labour and Employment Law
Herbert Smith Freehills
Project Finance and Development Practice
Norton Rose Fulbright South Africa
Litigation
Nortons
Competition / Antitrust Law
Pinsent Masons
Construction Law
Spoor & Fisher
Intellectual Property Law
Webber Wentzel
Corporate Law
Mining Law
Werksmans Attorneys
Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Showcasing Your 2024 Best Lawyers Awards
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Please contact sales@bestlawyers.com to learn more about how you can highlight individual lawyer and firm awards through your website, social media channels, Best Lawyers Profile Suite packages and commemorative items.
Interested in seeing Best Lawyers honorees in South Africa? Use our Find a Lawyer tool to search by location and specialty. If you think a deserving lawyer is missing from this list, nominate them to be recognized in an upcoming edition.
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