Transaction Support Lawyers | south africa

We assist with deal structuring, due diligence, share purchase agreements (SPAs), board resolutions, CP fulfilment, and post-closing compliance.

Businesses undergoing mergers, acquisitions, or restructurings, including startups, scale-ups, corporates, and investors managing complex or cross-border deals.

Without experienced legal oversight, deals can face delays, compliance risks, or disputes. Our team ensures transactions are structured, negotiated, and executed clearly and confidently.

Yes, we manage legal tasks related to CP, coordinating with stakeholders to avoid last-minute roadblocks and ensure smooth closings.

We review contracts, governance, compliance, liabilities, and more—highlighting risks early so informed decisions can be made before signing.

Absolutely. We help businesses navigate multi-jurisdictional issues, including competition filings, regulatory approvals, and foreign investment compliance.

We offer agile, on-demand legal support—combining top-tier expertise with flexible resourcing, so clients only pay for what they need when needed.

An ad hoc brief engages a Caveat lawyer for a specific, defined piece of work – drafting an agreement, advising on a discrete question, running a due diligence exercise – with a clear start and end point. A secondment places a Caveat lawyer inside your business for a defined period, working as part of your team on an ongoing basis, typically used where you need sustained legal capacity through a busy period, a fundraise, or while a permanent hire is being recruited. Both routes give you specialist legal capacity without a permanent headcount commitment.

On a live transaction, a seconded lawyer typically works embedded within the fund or business’s team – attending internal meetings, managing the deal’s legal workstream day to day, and coordinating with any external advisers on specialist matters – giving the client dedicated, in-house-style capacity for the duration of the deal without the overhead of a permanent hire. This is particularly valuable for funds without an internal legal team managing a fundraise, an investment, or a disposal process.

Because Caveat’s model is virtual and streamlined, without the overhead structure of a traditional large firm, transaction support is typically priced more competitively and more transparently – often on a fixed fee or clearly scoped rate basis, agreed upfront, rather than open-ended hourly billing. Fee and credential transparency is a core commitment for Caveat: you’ll know what you’re paying for, and who’s doing the work, before the engagement begins.

During a fundraise, a fund typically needs support with fund formation and structuring, drafting and negotiating investor documentation (subscription agreements, side letters), and regulatory compliance under CISCA and FAIS. During an investment, exit or disposal, needs shift toward transaction structuring, due diligence, warranty and indemnity negotiation, and closing mechanics. Because these needs are intensive but temporary, transaction support – through an ad hoc brief or a secondment – is often a better fit than either stretching internal capacity or engaging a large firm for the full mandate.