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Chanté Cockrill
practical experience
Chanté Cockrill is a Senior Associate at ENS in the Corporate Commercial practice.
Chanté specialises in corporate and commercial law.
She has experience in corporate work, including M&A (in relation to both listed and unlisted companies), the appointment and removal of directors, advising on corporate governance and compliance in relation to the Companies Act, JSE listings requirements and King IV and drafting constitutional documentation for companies (namely memoranda of incorporation and shareholders’ agreements) and trusts.
Chanté also has experience in advising on and drafting various transactional and commercial agreements, including share sale agreements, transportation & logistics agreements and poultry-related agreements (including in relation to the disposal of by-product and the supply of day-old chicks, broilers, hatching eggs and feed concentrate).
Chanté’s thesis for her Masters in Law (LLM) explores the scope of section 218(2) and investigates many related questions surrounding section 218(2), in light of directors‘ personal liability and shareholder protection.
qualifications
- LLB (Summa Cum Laude) (University of the Western Cape)
- LLM (Cum Laude) (University of the Western Cape)
- Admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa
