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INTEGRITY, APPROACHABILITY, AND professionals’ real commitment to their clients, an ability
to be forward thinking and a genuine desire to achieve
INDIVIDUALITY their clients’ commercial and strategic objectives.
Cox Yeats is a specialist law firm with a national and Cox Yeats will also work with clients to assist them in
international reach. The law firm offers premium responding to opportunities and to anticipate legal and
commercial legal services and gives innovative advice commercial issues that might affect their businesses.
in its numerous fields of expertise. Employee welfare
The purpose-built main office is situated at Ncondo The belief that the firm’s greatest asset is its people
Chambers, uMhlanga, KwaZulu-Natal. Cox Yeats has enabled Cox Yeats to rise above the prevailing
opened a Johannesburg office in Sandton in 2022 and circumstances of recent years. The greatest testament
on 1 September 2022 continued the expansion of its to this approach is in the consistent year on year
national footprint through the opening of a new office growth of the firm; from a sole individual in 1964, the
in Cape Town. firm now boasts an impressive staff compliment of 102
professionals, including Cox Yeats’ 30 partners.
“We are delighted that the firm has achieved its
strategy of having a presence in the country’s three Accordingly, the firm recognises that employee
major economic hubs,” said Andrew Clark, Cox Yeats’ welfare is central to its success and as such significant
managing partner. “We are confident that our Cape strides are taken by management to ensure that
Town office will match our successes in Durban and employees can achieve a work-life balance and are
Johannesburg as we strive to ensure that Cox Yeats ultimately cared for and supported both in and
remains the law firm of choice in South Africa.” outside of work. Being part of a firm where every
individual is encouraged to reach their potential is
Since 1964, when Cox Yeats was founded in KwaZulu-
Natal by the late legal legend Graham Cox, the firm one of its most appealing offerings.
has continued to rely on innovative and sustainable This proactive and positive culture, along with the
solutions to overcome the many storms which South firm’s new locations, will enable Cox Yeats to continue
Africa, and particularly KwaZulu-Natal, has faced. to attract and retain the top talents as they enter the
In addition, although the business has grown profession. The Cox Yeats attorneys are backed by a
substantially over the past five decades, the firm’s very strong professional team and staff turnover is
founding principles of integrity, approachability, and extremely low.
individuality are as strong now as ever. By continuing Expertise and Recognition
to live this DNA, Cox Yeats hopes to assure the public Cox Yeats has consistently been rated among the top
of a future as exciting and inspiring as the many years law firms in the country with many of its professionals
that came before. listed in top legal publications as well as various
Highly Specialised industry-specific guides to the world’s leading lawyers.
Both evolving and experienced professionals make Fourteen of their partners have been recognised
up its specialised teams, ensuring that Cox Yeats is in the 13th Edition of Best Lawyers® in South Africa,
a true-life partner to their clients. The teams have which is a compelling indication of the high calibre of
expertise in the fields of corporate and natural legal professionals who are part of this growing firm.
resources; construction and engineering; property; In addition, Richard Hoal received the Lawyer of the
maritime; insurance; labour; business restructuring Year accolade (Construction Law). This recognition
and insolvency; exchange control; international trade goes to the nominee earning the highest overall peer
and investment; and information and communication feedback for a specific practice area and geographic
technology. Each team has its own structure and region. Only one lawyer is recognised as the ‘Lawyer
unique approach; however, all teams have quality of the Year’ for each speciality and location.
service, quick response, and client confidence in In a further accolade, Cox Yeats who is also consistently
common. This ethos allows them to leverage off each rated one of SA’s Top Law Firms in the Annual PMR.
other’s different insights, allowing for ‘vibrant cross africa national survey, has for the fourth consecutive
pollination’ and attention to detail.
year, received the PMR.africa Diamond Arrow Award
Cox Yeats is well respected for its capacity to achieve for the number one rated law firm in South Africa in
results. Its successes can be attributed to all the the category: medium-sized law firms in SA.

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