Overview
Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr is one of South Africa's largest full service corporate and commercial law firms. We have significant national capability in Johannesburg and Cape Town, giving us sizeable influence in the country's key financial centres.
Through our exclusive alliance with DLA Piper, a global law firm, we are able to meet the needs of our clients wherever in the world they do business. Learn more about our Global Alliance.
We offer a full range of business legal services through our core practice areas:
- Corporate and Commercial
- Competition
- Dispute Resolution: Litigation, Arbitration and Mediation
- Employment
- Environmental
- Finance and Banking
- Intellectual Property
- Pro Bono and Human Rights
- Projects and Infrastructure
- Real Estate
- Tax
- Technology, Media and Telecommunications
- Trusts and Estates
Our lawyers specialise in their particular fields of law. We draw on the expertise of our lawyers from across practice groups to provide a fully integrated service in specialised fields and we have sector-led teams with a wealth of experience in a wide range of industries.
Our clients include local, national and international companies across a broad range of sectors, ranging from emerging businesses to multinationals, as well as all levels of government.
As a truly South African firm, we have faced the challenges of empowerment and transformation head on. We aspire to be a firm that cherishes diversity and equal opportunity, and actively contributes to attaining the objectives of Black Economic Empowerment. Learn more about our Transformation Policy.


