PROFESSIONAL STAFF
CAREL LE ROUX
Partner
Qualifications:
B Iuris (UOFS); LLB (UNISA)
Email:
carel@mlv.co.za
Carel heads up the Commercial Litigation, Contract and Aviation Department.
Carel is a partner in the firm.
Carel was admitted as an attorney in 1992. He was the founder and director of Le Roux Meyer Assenmacher Inc., the predecessor of LVA.
Carel specialises in property law, interpretation, negotiating and drafting of commercial contracts, commercial law and litigation, arbitration and the law of landlord and tenant.
Carel’s practice includes, but is not limited to:
- Arbitrations;
- Arbitrations relating to building contracts;
- Arbitrations relating to joint ventures;
- Aviation law;
- Banking law;
- Building and engineering disputes;
- Claims relating to confidential information;
- Commercial litigation;
- Competition Commission complaints;
- Commercial fraud;
- Competition law;
- Compliance with the National Credit Act, Consumer Protection Act and New Companies Act;
- Construction/development disputes;
- Debt collecting;
- Development agreements;
- Directors’ duties;
- Drafting of leases (commercial and residential);
- Drafting and updating of Memoranda of Incorporation;
- Enforcement of commercial contracts;
- Foreclosures on leases;
- Inter-company loan agreements;
- Interpretation agreements;
- Interpretation and drafting of insurance policies;
- Mining agreements and applications;
- Product liability disputes;
- Purchase and sale of land agreements;
- Restraint of trade disputes;
- Shareholders agreements;
- Company acquisitions and take-overs;
- Wills and trusts – inter vivos and mortis causa.
CHARLOTTE LE ROUX
Partner, Notary and Conveyancer
Qualifications:
B Proc (UNISA)
Email:
charlotte@mlv.co.za
Charlotte heads up the Conveyancing and Property Department.
Charlotte is a partner in the firm and heads up the conveyancing department.
Charlotte was admitted as an attorney in 1998. She was admitted as a Conveyancer during 2001 and admitted as a Notary during 2008.
Charlotte specialises in property law and all aspects of conveyancing related matters.
We are on a leading bank’s panel for conveyancing related services.
In particular, Charlotte attends to the following conveyancing related matters:
- Notarial Tie Agreements – registration and cancellations;
- Antenuptial contracts;
- Authentication of documents for use outside RSA;
- Deceased estate transfers;
- Insolvent estate transfers;
- Donation transfers;
- Transfers ito the Prevention of Organised Crime Act;
- Interdicts;
- Servitudes – registrations, changes and cancellations;
- Usufructs – registrations and cancellations;
- Registration and cancellation of title conditions;
- Opening and registration of Townships and sectional title schemes;
- Foreclosure transfers (sale in execution) (bank panel attorney);
- Bond cancellations – Legal, Pre-legal, Deceased and Special (bank panel attorney);
- Bond registrations (bank panel attorney);
- Easysell transfers, cancellations and bonds (bank panel attorney).
JOHAN JACOBS
Partner and Conveyancer
Qualifications:
B Proc
Email:
johan@mlv.co.za
For the past 35 years Johan Jacobs has been the lead attorney and conveyancer for approximately 75 cluster and sectional title developments in Sandton, Midrand, Rosebank and Randburg, South Africa. He focuses on commercial, sectional title, industrial and conventional real estate development.
Johan has been recommended in Legal 500 as “a seasoned figure in township development and real estate developments in the Sandton area”. He has also been recommended in the South African edition of “The best lawyers in South Africa Real Estate division” and as Real Estate practitioner in the international edition of “Chambers and Partners.”
Since 2002, his practice has been mainly advising clients on the legal requirements of high volume developments in the Northern Suburbs of Johannesburg.
Johan is currently running the satellite office of our firm in George in the Western Cape.
RANEESHA NAICKER
Conveyancer
Qualifications:
LLB (UKZN)
Email:
raneesha@mlv.co.za
Raneesha was admitted as an attorney in 2009 and a Conveyancer in 2014. She specialises in Property Law and all aspects of conveyancing related matters.
She holds a LLB degree from the University of the KwaZulu-Natal and a Certificate in Practice Management.
She joined the practice in 2016 as an associate of the firm.
Raneesha’s experience includes property related work as well as conducting real estate due diligence investigations, drafting and advising on property related agreements.
Raneesha focuses on:-
- Transfers for both commercial and residential properties;
- Deceased estate transfers;
- Insolvent estate transfers;
- Donation transfers;
- Registration and cancellation of title conditions;
- Transfers in respect of sale in executions;
- Bond registration;
- Bond cancellation;
- Easysell transfers;
- Upliftment of interdicts.
FRASER STOCKLEY
Associate
Qualifications:
BCom Law (UJ); LLB (UJ)
Email:
fraser@mlv.co.za
Fraser is an associate at the firm after successfully obtaining his BCom Law and postgraduate LLB degree, both from the University of Johannesburg. Fraser completed his articles at LVA and has, since admission, taken on, and added to, a large portfolio consisting of debt collection, commercial and private landlord and tenant disputes, trust law, commercial law, the drawing up of contracts, family law and general disputes of their own nature.
SHARON HONIBALL
Sharon is a Candidate Attorney currently completing her Articles at LVA.