SOLUTIONS
We want to help you to grow a resilient business in an increasingly complex and regulated working environment.
Some of the areas that we can assist with include:
Company incorporation and CIPC services
Commercial agreements terms, supply agreements, distribution agreements, JVs, NDAs, MOUs etc.
CPA compliance
Data privacy and data protection
Employment agreements, policy development and best practices
Guidance and advice
Funding – equity investments, preference share structures, etc.
Franchising
Mergers and acquisitions, term sheets, structure, negotiation, agreements
Marketing and media law, advertising material, promotions etc.
SMALL BUSINESS
In a working environment that is increasingly complex and regulated, it is often difficult for small business owners to drive growth while confidently managing risk.
Whipping the Cat helps small business owners to identify risks and put measures in place to mitigate and minimise risk.
Our legal support, agreements, policies etc are aimed to align with clients’ values and style so that our legal support underpins the business and integrates with it rather than being an out of whack bolt on. Private equity investors and business funders often comment on how the status of a company’s legal affairs and risk mitigation tools map to the overall success of the business. We can help drive that success.
Our small business services include:
- Drafting company founding agreements, MOIs/shareholders agreements
- Funding agreements
- Assisting with the registration of brand names and trademarks
- Drafting customer facing supply of goods/service agreements
- Drafting website T&Cs, privacy policies etc.
- Assistance with “hiring and firing” including employment agreements, company policies, assistance with performance management, retrenchments and other exits from the company
- License agreements, SaaS agreements, software development agreements etc.
- Sale of shares, sale of business and buy-sell agreements
MEDIUM BUSINESS
Mid-sized companies often find themselves facing increased legal complexity and spiralling legal costs. FDs, MDs and staff are drawn away from their day to day work to attend to mounting “legal matters”. Seldom is there anyone looking at the big picture legal landscape, legal risk and governance.
The WTC team can manage company-wide legal service needs. This could range from drafting selected commercial agreements, to managing specific areas of the business (for example in-bound procurement agreements) to our Multiplawyer®solution where our team operates as the company’s in-house legal service team on an outsourced basis.
Depending on specific needs, our outsourcing model can be structured for specific areas of the business, “eat as much as you like”, and dedicated “bum-on-seat”.
Our medium business services include:
- Governance structures and delegation of authority
- Share schemes
- Drafting/amending company MOIs/shareholders agreements
- Debt and equity funding agreements
- Assisting with the registration of brand names and trademarks
- Drafting customer facing supply of goods/service agreements
- Reviewing in-bound supply agreements
- Drafting website T&Cs, privacy policiesetc.
- Assistance with “hiring and firing” including employmenta greements, company policies, assistance with performance management, retrenchments and other exits from the company
- License agreements, SaaS agreements, software development agreements etc.
- Mergers and acquisitions – sale of shares, sale of business, funding arrangements
- Buy-sell agreements
- Document retention and contract management
LARGE BUSINESS
Large companies that do not have an in-house legal team can take advantage of our Multiplawyer®solution where our team operates as the company’s in-house legal service team on an outsourced basis. Where area expertise is required (for example litigation or competition law) we source and manage area experts.
The disaggregation of legal services has allowed in-house lawyers to source the appropriate type of legal work from the appropriate type of legal service provider at the right cost.
At Whipping the Cat this goes far beyond legal process outsourcing (LPO), with our team able to operate as a natural extension of the in-house team – the “one more lawyer” that so many GCs cry out for to take care of specific legal tasks or to free up company resources to be more strategic.
VALUE-ADDED SERVICES
Social Media Guidelines
Used responsibly and ethically, social media can deliver significant brand engagement. Used inappropriately, the benefits can be forever destroyed together with your brand and reputation.
POPI Guidelines
Knowing what you need to do to be POPI complaint is important. Knowing that data protection is much more than mere POPI compliance is even more important. Use our POPI guidelines to get a good understanding of the key considerations for POPI compliance.
Legally required workplace obligations
To comply with the legislation and to make sense of it all. Whipping the Cat has developed a plug-and-play ‘back to work’ toolkit for employers.
COVID-19 Regulations
This memo contains a summary of the regulations passed by the various government ministries in response to the declaration of the National State of Disaster and the “lock-down”.
COVID-19 Business Funding/Relief Guide
Many companies are feeling the financial impact of COVID-19 and lockdown being extended. This list sets out some of the departments and agencies that you may be able to turn to for financial relief.
COVID-19 OHS Memo
With the shift to Level 4 Lockdown on 1 May 2020, some businesses will be returning to workplace based operations. But as we have come to expect, there is a new “normal” and employees cannot return to work just as they would have done pre-COVID-19. The new directive for workplace health and safety (issued on 28 April 2020) sets out a raft of new requirements that employers will need to comply with as employees return to work. This memo sets out the “new normal” including details of the new requirements for social distancing, providing and wearing masks, dealing with the public etc.