Artificial Intelligence Law, Corporate & Commercial Law, Data Protection Law, M&A, Technology & Web3 Law, Transaction Support Services
Alex McCall
Admitted 2010 – South Africa
Alex McCall is a corporate and commercial lawyer advising founders, executives and boards, with a focus on transactions, contracts, governance, technology and data-related risk. His advice is commercially grounded and focused on helping clients identify the issues that matter, understand their options, and make clear decisions.
Previously at Webber Wentzel in Johannesburg and Ashurst in Sydney, Alex combines large-firm training with a practical, business-facing advisory style. His work is particularly relevant to founder-led, technology-enabled and growth-stage businesses that need senior legal input and pragmatic guidance.
Years' Experience
15+ Years
Primary Practice
Artificial Intelligence Law, Corporate & Commercial Law, Data Protection Law, M&A, Technology & Web3 Law, Transaction Support Services
Jurisdictions
South Africa
Previously At
Webber Wentzel, Ashurst
Expertise
Corporate Commercial, Technology & AI Governance Specialist
Alex advises on corporate commercial law, M&A, technology, data and AI governance. He works with founders, executives and boards that need senior legal support across corporate structuring, investment, governance, commercial contracting and technology-enabled operations.
His work is suited to businesses that need legal advice to move quickly and reliably. This includes fractional in-house counsel support, corporate transactions, capital raises, shareholder arrangements, commercial agreements, data privacy reviews, AI governance policies, and legal risk assessments for time-poor decision-makers.
Alex helps clients identify pragmatic solutions to modern business challenges: his advice is commercially-minded, focused and plain-spoken.
- Corporate & Commercial Law
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Technology Law
- Artificial Intelligence Law
- Data Protection Law
- Corporate Governance & Company Secretarial
- Commercial Agreements
- Shareholder Agreements
- Transaction Support
- Legal Drafting / Plain Language
Selected Expertise
Fractional Counsel · South Africa
Acts as fractional in-house counsel for businesses needing senior legal support without a full-time legal team, whether on retainer or per project. Advises founders, executives and boards on corporate-commercial issues, governance, risk allocation and implementation.
Fractional Counsel · Corporate Commercial Law · Governance & CoSec · South Africa
Corporate Transactions, Investment & Restructuring · South Africa
Advises on share, business and asset sales, going-concern transactions, founder and shareholder exits, capital raises, share subscriptions and investment rounds.
His work includes SAFEs, conversions, amendments to investment instruments, shareholder loans, loan-to-equity conversions, novations, debt restructuring, buybacks, repurchases, recapitalisations and cap table restructures.
Mergers & Acquisitions · Transaction Support · Corporate & Commercial Law · South Africa
Structured Equity & Incentive Arrangements · South Africa
Advises on preference share terms, structured equity, employee share schemes and option schemes, including the commercial and governance issues that arise when ownership, incentives and control need to be carefully balanced.
Shareholder Agreements · Corporate Structuring · Governance & CoSec · South Africa
Deal Implementation & Post-Deal Governance · South Africa
Supports clients with deal structuring, due diligence, data-room review, closing checklists and implementation. Also assists with post-deal governance clean-up, joint venture agreements and strategic co-operation agreements.
Mergers & Acquisitions · Due Diligence · Transaction Support · South Africa
Company Law, Governance & Records · South Africa
Drafts, reviews, amends and restates shareholders’ agreements and MOIs. Advises on company law, board governance, shareholder rights and actions, minutes and resolutions, board committees and board policies, beneficial ownership filings, share registers, share transfers, director changes, company registrations and conversions, company name changes and deregistrations.
Governance & CoSec · Corporate & Commercial Law · Shareholder Agreements · South Africa
Commercial Contracts · South Africa
Advises on agency arrangements, commercial leases, consultant and contractor terms, contract manufacturing and toll manufacturing arrangements, distribution agreements, framework agreements, guarantees and suretyships, heads of terms and MOUs, master services agreements, NDAs, reseller agreements, SLAs, SOWs, standard terms of business, subcontracting arrangements, supply and distribution agreements, teaming arrangements, warehousing and logistics agreements, website terms, and white-labelling, including cross-border arrangements
Commercial Law · Commercial Agreements · Cross-Border Legal Services · South Africa
Technology & Platform Agreements · South Africa
Advises on SaaS, platform and API agreements, website terms, privacy terms, acceptable-use terms and source-code escrow. Also advises on data processing and operator agreements (POPIA and EU/UK GDPR regimes), privacy policies and notices, cross-border data transfers, AI governance frameworks and policies, IP ownership and licensing, open-source licensing and technology commercialisation arrangements.
Technology Law · Commercial Agreements · Legal Drafting / Plain Language · South Africa
Term Sheets, Templates & Plain-Language Drafting · South Africa
Advises on term sheets, letters of intent, heads of terms, MOUs, mandate letters, guarantees, suretyships and indemnities. Develops contract templates, clause banks and playbooks, and redrafts complex agreements into clearer plain-language documents.
Legal Drafting / Plain Language · Commercial Law · Transaction Support · South Africa
Technology, Data & AI Governance · South Africa
Advises on POPIA and EU/UK GDPR-style privacy reviews, privacy policies and notices for technology-enabled businesses, data processing and operator agreements (DPAs), controller and operator role allocation, cross-border transfers, data protection impact assessments (DPIAs), and practical data posture reviews.
Data Protection Law · Technology Law · Regulatory & Compliance Law · South Africa
AI Governance & Responsible Use · South Africa
Advises on workplace AI acceptable-use policies, incident procedures, data classification frameworks and guardrails for tools such as ChatGPT, Claude and Copilot. Supports AI governance where use affects client data, confidentiality, IP, decision-making, accountability or regulatory exposure.
Artificial Intelligence Law · Data Protection Law · Governance & CoSec · South Africa
AI & Technology Policy for Education · South Africa
Advises schools and education bodies on AI and technology policies, including safeguarding, responsible use, data handling and practical governance around digital tools.
Artificial Intelligence Law · Education Law · Data Protection Law · South Africa
Intellectual Property & Commercialisation · South Africa
Advises on IP licensing, licence-and-manufacture arrangements, commercialisation agreements, IP assignments and transfers, and IP ownership and use provisions in services, software and collaboration contracts. His work includes protecting pre-existing tools, know-how and reusable materials, open-source software and hardware licensing strategy, copyright infringement and breach-of-licence assessments and correspondence, and source-code escrow arrangements.
Intellectual Property Law · Technology Law · Commercial Law · South Africa
Non-Profit & Mission-Led Organisations · South Africa
Advises on non-profit company (NPC) incorporations, MOIs, model constitutions and board support for NPCs, associations, churches, schools and community organisations. Also advises on public benefit organisation and PBO/tax-exemption structuring, and provides independent legal opinions on governance and compliance for donor-funded organisations.
Corporate & Commercial Law · Governance & CoSec · Regulatory & Compliance Law · South Africa
Education
Qualifications
LLB
Rhodes University
2007
BA Law
Rhodes University
2005
Work with Alex McCall
Available for ad hoc briefs, retainers, and secondments across South Africa and internationally.
Currently accepting new instructions
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Practice Areas
Artificial Intelligence Law, Corporate & Commercial Law, Data Protection Law, M&A, Technology & Web3 Law, Transaction Support Services
Jurisdictions
South Africa
Languages
English, Afrikaans, French
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