Firm Description

ENS (Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs) is Africa’s largest law firm, with over 400 legal, forensic, tax and IP practitioners. The firm benchmarks itself according to international standards whilst retaining a uniquely African focus, making it well-equipped to advise clients wherever they may choose to do business. ENS was established over 100 years ago and currently operates out of its Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and Stellenbosch offices in South Africa making it one of the oldest and most experienced full service law firms in Africa. ENS is proud to be a level 3 BBBEE contributor.

ENS has amassed numerous prestigious awards as a result of its innovative, world-class and solution driven approach. The firm provides legal services at the top end of the market and prides itself on superior service delivery and its responsiveness to clients needs.

The key to the firm’s success and its differentiator is its ‘one-firm and teamwork’ approach, which encourages practitioners to become specialists in their chosen area of expertise. This means that instead of working across various business areas, ENS has teams of practitioners who are dedicated to, and focused on, very specific areas of law. Clients therefore benefit, as the advice they receive in areas of practice is specialised, of a high standard and can be provided without unnecessary delay. This value proposition affords clients the most cost effective solution, irrespective of what and how many different business areas a transaction may require.

ENS is geared to offer its services anywhere on the African continent. Whether working closely with a client’s trusted advisor in cross-border matters, or assisting clients directly, ENS is ideally placed to ensure that all transactions involving South Africa and/or African countries can be optimised and managed from a local and geographic perspective, to ensure maximum return for the client.