Leading international legal practice, Norton Rose, is proud to announce the promotion of six South African associates to directorship.

New directors Christina Pretorius and Ismail Laher joined the Johannesburg office in 2007 as candidate attorneys.  Following their appointment as associates in 2009, the pair has worked on major commercial transactions across a wide variety of industries including aviation, auditing, banking, medicine, mining and retail.  Ismail also specialises in BBBEE structuring and advice.

After two years with the firm, Zano Nduli has been promoted to director.  Zano previously worked as a partner at Cox Yeats and his experience includes commercial and administrative law litigation, mining transactional work and BBBEE restructuring linked to traditional communities.

Christine Rodrigues is a financial services lawyer specialising in corporate and regulatory insurance law.  She has been promoted to director in the Johannesburg office’s banking and finance department.  Prior to joining our Johannesburg practice, Christine worked for one of the major short term insurers dealing with compliance management issues and developing business strategies for underwriting managers.

Jason van Dijk began his career as a candidate attorney in 2007 in Norton Rose’s Johannesburg office.  Over the past five years he has worked closely with senior members of the competition team and now specialises in South African and sub-Saharan competition law, including cartel investigations, merger notifications and competition law opinions.  He is currently based at the firm’s Cape Town office where he services the firm’s clients from the fertilizer, fishing, consumer goods, marine and engineering works and petroleum product sectors.

The sixth associated appointed to director is litigation lawyer Sandile Khoza who joined the firm as a candidate attorney in 2007.  Sandile acts for most of the major local and global insurance companies and specialises in general insurance claims and banking litigation work.  His promotion will strengthen the litigation and dispute resolution department in the Durban office.

Rob Otty, managing director of Norton Rose in South Africa commented: ““My congratulations to each of the new directors who have already contributed so much during the course of their careers.  I am grateful for the commitment they have shown to our incredible team.  In the current economic environment the six promotions reflect our continued investment in the practice.”