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Michael van Staden

Michael van Staden

Junior Counsel

Contacts
mvs@capebar.co.za
072-377-4670

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Year of Call
2019
Qualifications
  • LLB; LLM (Corporate and Commercial Law)
Areas of Practice

• Business rescue

Brief Curriculum Vitae

Michael is a member of the Cape Bar and Johannesburg Society of Advocates. He holds chambers in Cape Town and Johannesburg. He is a former practising attorney with four years of post-article experience in the commercial litigation department of a reputable medium-sized firm in Cape Town.

Michael’s practice consists mainly of insolvency-related work, company law, business rescue proceedings, commercial law, and financial services.

Michael is regularly briefed to represent the liquidators of insolvent companies and large Ponzi-type schemes, which include the liquidators appointed to some of the country’s largest Ponzi-type and multiplication schemes. He is also regularly briefed by liquidators, trustees, and creditors as the evidence leader of confidential commission of enquiries and public insolvency enquiries.

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