Legal, Governance, Risk and Compliance Services
Endorphin Global assists clients operating in increasingly complex legal, regulatory and digital environments through a multidisciplinary approach, combining integrated legal and commercial expertise. Our Legal Advisory Services include:
Endorphin Global provides clients with guidance on a broad range of issues arising from day-to-day operational activities. Our practitioners merge our local jurisdiction experience with our know-how in global coordination. Our Corporate Law services are tailored to each client’s needs.
Our Services Include
- Requests for legal advice regarding foreign investment matters in South Africa and USA
- The incorporation of corporations and companies in their various forms, including drafting constitutional documents
- The drafting of corporate agreements (sale of shares, sale of business, share buy-back, subscription and shareholders agreements)
- The drafting and negotiation of non-disclosure agreements, as well as confidentiality and settlement agreements
- The drafting of board minutes, proxies, and general or special powers-of-attorney
- The negotiation and drafting of negotiable instruments and credit transactions
- Corporate restructuring, conversion, deregistrations and advising on winding-up procedures
- Opening of subsidiaries, and representative and branch offices of foreign companies
- Company law advice and opinions in respect of financial assistance, distributions, share buy-backs, fundamental transactions, takeover regulations, board and shareholder matters, directors’ personal financial interests
A wide range of workforce issues can impact a company’s ability to attract and retain talent or can damage its reputation and market value in an instant, companies need trusted, globally scalable employment law solutions.
Our Services Include
- Restructuring advice as a consequence of a sale of business, merger or acquisition, including retrenchment and amendment of terms of employment
- Agreement drafting, review and interpretation, including restraints of trade, secondment, consultancy, executive employment and settlement agreements
- Advice, structuring and process management of pre-engagement and engagement, performance management, discipline and exit
- Advice on and interpretation of collective agreements and collective bargaining
- Conducting due diligence investigations on labour matters and compliance in contemplation of an acquisition or merger
- Advice on compliance with local laws and regulations, including best practice principles
- Employment policy recommendations, drafting and review, including human resource manuals, disciplinary and performance management policies, grievance and sexual harassment policies
Endorphin Global advises businesses throughout every stage of a transaction, from negotiation through to execution. We align with our tax and finance colleagues to cover risks from all angles.
Our Services Include
- Pre-deal matters (non-disclosure agreements, term sheets)
- Drafting of transaction documents
- Transaction management and implementation
- Closing and post-closing matters
- Drafting and negotiating sale and purchase agreements
- Group reorganisations and restructurings (drafting restructure documents, implementation of restructure, corporate consents and approvals, post-restructure matters)
- Advising on Johannesburg Stock Exchange listings requirements and the New York Stock Exchange
- Corporate actions (acquisitions/disposals, share issues, affected transactions, schemes of arrangement)
- Drafting of circulars
- General competition advice
- Legal due diligence investigations
Endorphin Global experienced practitioners bring a practical focus to commercial law solutions that help clients manage increasingly rigorous regulations and local enforcement.
Our Services Include
- Commercial Advisory
- Commercial Contracts
- Full-Scale Pre-Insolvency Solutions
- Transfer Pricing Documentation, Intra-Group Contracting
We align with our tax colleagues to provide integrated tax controversy solutions and assist individuals and corporates with all aspects of tax dispute resolution with the South African Revenue Service.
Our Services Include
- Responses to letters of audit findings and audit finalisation letters
- Requests for reasons
- Requests for remittance of penalties
- Objections
- Appeals
- Alternative dispute resolution
- Voluntary disclosure programme applications
Experience the future of law, today! The past decade has been a time of great change for in-house legal professionals. General Counsels face increasing pressure to address current and future business challenges and confront a complex and ever-changing regulatory landscape. The stakes grow and expectations increase, yet resources remain limited. Endorphin Global Legal services were developed by lawyers in collaboration with experts.
Drive efficiency via process improvements and technology adoption
- Improve service delivery and reduce bottlenecks
- Modernise risk-management protocols
- Reduce legal spend
- Enable the legal team to focus on critical and strategic initiatives
- Client contract management
- Supplier contract management
- Compliance protocols
- Corporate management
- Legislation changes
- Contract management
- Data privacy
- Endorphin Legal can help General Counsels and their teams choose and implement the technology that works for them and tuned to their people and their goals.
- Design and build a legal technology architecture that can deliver enterprise-wide value
Our governance, risk and compliance (GRC) services help clients tackle the broad issues of corporate governance, enterprise risk management, and effective corporate compliance, while offering specialized assistance in key areas such as financial reporting, tax, information technology, human capital, anti-fraud and dispute consulting, and financial advisory services. We can help organisations identify, remediate, monitor, exploit and manage enterprise risks in addition to coordinating the utilization of people, process and technology to improve GRC effectiveness and help manage costs. Whether you need help and guidance at the SME level, board, C-level, or enterprise risk and compliance level, our professionals have deep experience in every major industry, so we can provide guidance and insight that makes sense for your unique business. Our services encompass:
- Improve board effectiveness
- Set the right tone and make effective decisions
- Assess and implement ethics programs, training, change management, anti-fraud programs and monitoring/reporting
- Strategic risk management: creating and protecting value from strategic risks
- Design, implement and maintain a common risk infrastructure by leveraging people, process and technology transformation opportunities
- Establish organisation-wide consistency while simultaneously addressing different and unique functional needs
- Identify, measure, manage, monitor, review and report on risks
- Integrate activities to effectively manage risk and compliance-related activities
- Compliance program design and control testing
- Compliance monitoring, assessment, and effectiveness
- Regulatory consulting
- Specialized compliance services: FCPA, Anti-Money Laundering, Food and Product Safety, FDA Compliance, Direct and Indirect Tax Compliance, etc.
