| Firm Name: | Werksmans Attorneys |
| Headquarters: | Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Num Offices: | 3 |
| Num Employees: | 410 |
| Practice Areas: | Corporate law Commercial law[1] |
| Key People: | David Hertz (Chairman)[2] Jeremy Botha (CEO) |
| Date Founded: | 1917 |
| Founder: | Nathan Werksman |
| Company Type: | Legal Practice |
| Homepage: | werksmans.com |
| Num Lawyers: | Over 200 |
Werksmans Attorneys is a South African law firm[3] [4] with offices in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Stellenbosch.[5] It was established in 1917. In 1993, Werksmans was one of the founding members of LEX Africa, currently the oldest and largest African network.
The firm has recently been considered as the latest a member of the "Big Five law firms" of leading South African law firms.
With a focus on corporate and commercial law, the firm's practice areas include banking and finance; business recovery, insolvency, and restructuring; competition law; labour law; environmental law; health, pharmaceutical, and life sciences; and mining, energy, and natural resources. It also provides legal advisory services for intellectual property, litigation and dispute resolution (and alternative dispute resolution in the form of mediation and arbitration), media and communications, mergers and acquisitions, property transactions, sports and entertainment, tax, and information technology.
In November 2019, the firm was representing celebrity Boity Thulo in her legal attempt to terminate her contract with her management agency.[6]
After an apparent issue with non-payment of fees, Werksmans severed ties with its client the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa in February 2020.[7]