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Trade Law Chambers is rated as the leading international trade law firm in South Africa. We specialise in international trade, corporate, commercial and investment law as well as dispute resolution related to these fields. Through our association with Geldenhuys Joubert Attorneys we deliver unparalleled legal advice on international and domestic legal issues.
Our professionals at Trade Law Chambers are admitted South African attorneys with Geldenhuys Joubert Attorneys as well as solicitors of England and Wales. Trade Law Chambers provides the medium through which our attorneys provide legal advice to our clients in the international market whilst our attorneys provide domestic legal advice through Geldenhuys Joubert Attorneys.
Our clients include local, foreign and multinational businesses, non-governmental stakeholders, business associations as well as domestic and foreign government departments and agencies and regional organisations. We have years of experience in the agricultural, financial services, energy, food, beverage, tobacco, manufacturing, mining, private equity, technology and services industries.
Our lawyers' extensive experience in their specialisations will ensure that we provide you with the best support for your business endeavours. Our experience within Africa is unmatched.
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Trade Law Chambers is rated as the leading international trade law firm in South Africa. We specialise in international trade, corporate, commercial and investment law as well as dispute resolution related to these fields. Through our association with Geldenhuys Joubert Attorneys we deliver unparalleled legal advice on international and domestic legal issues.
Our professionals at Trade Law Chambers are admitted attorneys with Geldenhuys Joubert Attorneys. Trade Law Chambers provides the medium through which our attorneys provide legal advice to our clients in the international market whilst our attorneys provide domestic legal advice through Geldenhuys Joubert Attorneys.
Our clients include local, foreign and multinational businesses, non-governmental stakeholders, business associations as well as domestic and foreign government departments and agencies and regional organisations.
Our lawyers' extensive experience in their specialisations will ensure that we provide you with the best support for your business endeavours. Our experience within Africa is unmatched.
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Rian Geldenhuys
Rian Geldenhuys is an international trade, investment and commercial attorney and a director of Trade Law Chambers and the commercial law firm Geldenhuys Joubert Inc.
Rian has completed his BA LLB, LLM (International Trade Law) and MBA degrees at the University of Stellenbosch. He is an admitted and practicing attorney of the High Court of South Africa and is an admitted and practising solicitor of England and Wales . He completed his legal training with the law firm Cliffe Dekker in Cape Town. Prior to this he contributed to the establishment of trade law expertise in Southern Africa while engaged in international economic law research for the Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa (tralac).
Expertise
Rian has extensive experience in corporate and commercial law, international trade law, financial services & banking law. Rian has advised on numerous trade law issues including free trade agreements, customs issues, trade remedies (anti-dumping duties, subsidies and safeguards), trade in services (especially the establishment of businesses in foreign jurisdictions), foreign investment, a wide range of commercial, corporate and private equity transactions, competition law, business regulation (both local and foreign), intellectual property rights, information and communication technology and the commercial aspects of cross-border trade. His clients include mulitnational corporations, governments and international organisations.
Rian has advised on numerous matters throughout South Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, Australasia and the Americas. His country and region specific experience includes:
- Australia
- Argentina
- Canada
- China
- COMESA
- Bangladesh
- Brazil
- Botswana
- EAC
- EU
- Germany
- Ghana
- Hong Kong
- India
- Indonesia
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Mauritius
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- New Zealand
- Pakistan
- SADC
- South Africa
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Uganda
- United Kingdom
- United States of America
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Contributions to his field of expertise
For a decade Rian taught international trade law on the University of Stellenbosch Business School's MBA programmes. He has also lectured international trade law on the University of the Western Cape and the University of Pretoria's joint LLM in International Trade and Investment Law and is a regular contributor to conferences on international trade law. He also contributes to various business magazines and is a regular presenter at conferences on commercial law and international trade law.
He is a member of BUSA's (Business Unity South Africa) Trade Policy Committee which represents organised business in the tripartite NEDLAC configuration where government consults organised business, labour and society on economic issues. He is also a member of the Young International Arbitration Group (part of the London Court of International Arbitration), the Cape Law Society and serves on the Law Society of South Africa's GATS Committee.
Accolades
Named as among the world's leading Trade and Customs Lawyers by:
Who's Who Legal: Trade and Customs 2016 - 2023.
Best Lawyers: 2020 - 2024.
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Niel Joubert
Niel Joubert is an international trade and commercial attorney with experience in the fields of corporate and commercial law, international dispute settlement, trade remedies, regional trade agreements, intellectual property and all commercial legal aspects of international business.
Niel completed his legal training with commercial law firm Bowman Gilfillan, where he worked in their Corporate and Commercial, Tax, Competition, Commercial Litigation and Maritime and Transport departments. Niel previously served with the Legal Affairs Division of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva, as a Legal Affairs Officer. In particular he gained first-hand experience in WTO dispute settlement working on the US - Internet Gambling and the Chile - Price Band System disputes. Niel also has extensive experience in international trade law capacity building having spent three and a half years with the Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa (tralac), where he worked on various projects throughout Eastern and Southern Africa involving trade negotiations, WTO trade remedies, regional trade arrangements, trade policy and legal training.
Niel holds BCom Law, LLB and LLM in International Trade Law degrees from the University of Stellenbosch, as well as a Masters degree in International Law and Economics (MILE) from Switzerland's World Trade Institute. He also participated in an exchange programme with the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam where he studied European Union Law, Government Regulation of Business and Public International Law.
Niel is a regular visiting lecturer on international trade law at various universities in the region, having taught on graduate and masters programmes at the University of Stellenbosch, the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS), the WITS Business School, the University of the Western Cape and the Eduardo Mondlane University in Mozambique. Niel also regularly presents on commercial and international trade law topics at workshops and conferences, Niel is a member of the Cape Law Society and serves on the Executive Committee of the Exporters Club of the Western Cape.
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