Gerhard Rudolph

Managing Partner

Johannesburg

Gerhard Rudolph is head of the Litigation & Investigations department in our Johannesburg office and is a member of the firm’s International Arbitration group. He has extensive experience in representing and advising both domestic and multinational corporate clients in a broad range of contentious matters in South Africa, across the African continent and beyond.

He has a truly international practice, with numerous cross-border mandates in the following key focus areas: large disputes in the energy, mining and infrastructure sectors; complex transactional and regulatory disputes involving financial institutions, including regulatory and compliance investigations, asset tracing, global recovery processes and judicial commissions of enquiry; and contentious restructuring and insolvency disputes for a number of local and multinational corporates.

Gerhard has been ranked as a leading dispute resolution lawyer in legal directories for more than a decade. He is also regarded as one of the leading construction law specialists in South Africa.

Expertise

Practices

Litigation, Arbitration and Investigations

Sanctions, International Trade and Investment Compliance

Corporate Governance and Compliance

Public Law

Projects

International Arbitration

Litigation

Investigations, Enforcement and Business Crime

Sectors

Communications and Media

Mining and Metals

Infrastructure and Transport

Industrial and Manufacturing

Energy

Office

Johannesburg

6th Floor, 90 Grayston, 90 Grayston Drive, Sandton
Johannesburg
2196

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Qualifications

Professional

Attorney, South Africa, 1995

Academic

LLB, University of Pretoria, 1992

BLC, University of Pretoria, 1990

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