Dedicated to solving the legal challenges of businesses by providing personalised advice at a reasonable fee.
As a boutique law firm, we focus primarily on commercial and banking and finance services. We recognise that our clients have demands in other areas of law and for that reason we have built a reliable network to assist our clients in other areas of law.
Our Practice Areas
SUSTAINABILITY AND SOCIETAL IMPACT
We believe in the need for social upliftment and invest in social initiatives. One of our social responsibility projects includes the identification of NPOs with values aligned to ours which include empowerment through skills development and providing pro bono legal services. This encourages an ethos of paying forward within our organisation and making a meaningful difference in people’s lives.
In the words of Charles H. Bishop, 2000, we believe that ‘change occurs one person at a time’. In addition to supporting NPO’s we empower individuals by way of mentoring and sponsoring their higher education, creating lasting and meaningful change within family units which in turn uplifts their community.
Lawyers
With over 16 years post-admission experience, Zainobia Demarthe is a corporate and commercial lawyer, practicing in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, securitisation transactions, competition law and consumer protection law.
She was admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa in 2006 and started the firm Demarthe & Co. Inc. in early 2022, formerly having been a partner at an international law firm as well as a boutique commercial law firm.
She has developed strong finance competencies having advised both private and publicly-listed companies in the banking, finance, and investment banking sectors, and has negotiated and drafted the full suite of legal agreements and opinions in respect of a number of securitisation and funding transactions as well as obtaining the necessary regulatory approvals required for the implementation of these transactions from inter alia the Takeover Regulation Panel, the Competition Commission and the Prudential Authority (previously the Registrar of Banks).
She has also developed strong commercial competencies having conducted due diligence investigations, being part of a team that has submitted merger filings with the Competition Commission on various mergers and acquisitions and has delivered on each stage of the project life cycle (including CP fulfilment and drafting the full suite of legal agreements and opinions required).
DIRECTOR
EDUCATION
2015, Post Graduate Diploma (Tax Law), University of the Witwatersrand
2006, Diploma (Corporate Law), University of Johannesburg
2005, Certificate (Competition Law), University of the Witwatersrand
2003, LLB, Rand Afrikaans University
2001, B Comm, Rand Afrikaans University
EXPERTISE
Corporate/Commercial
Mergers & Acquisitions
Securitisation Transactions
Competition Law
Consumer Protection Law
Banking & Finance
MEMBERSHIP
Legal Practice council
- 084 221 8750
- zainobia@demarthe.co.za
- linkedin/zainobiademarthe
Why Choose Us
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We provide quality, personalised advice at a reasonable fee.
- Being client focussed, we deliver bespoke and strategic legal and business solutions to our clients.
- We provide specialised commercial services which enables us to be at the forefront of developments in these areas of law.