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We are honoured to have received the PMR.africa Diamond Arrow 2025 Award for 1st overall outstanding medium-sized law firm. This recognition reflects the collective commitment, professionalism, and excellence of our entire team across all practice areas and offices. The PMR.africa Awards are based on independent research and feedback from respondents within the legal sector, including […]

Cox Yeats is proud to announce its recognition in the prestigious 2025 Chambers Global Rankings, underscoring the firm's commitment to delivering exceptional legal services across various practice areas. Shipping – Band 3 Our vast knowledge of maritime law is demonstrated by our Shipping department's Band 3 ranking. The team is known for its proficiency in […]

Cox Yeats is honoured to announce that 18 of our lawyers have been included in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in South Africa™. This prestigious recognition underscores our firm’s dedication to legal excellence, positioning our experts among the most trusted and respected in the industry. For us, this honour reaffirms our commitment to delivering client-centred solutions […]

Cox Yeats recently attended the TAG Alliances Fall Conference in Prague, held from 23–25 October 2024. This momentous event marked the first anniversary of our membership with TAG Alliances, one of the world’s largest multidisciplinary networks of independent professional services firms. Our partners, Gary Pritchard and Gareth Cremen, represented Cox Yeats, connecting with esteemed professionals […]

Industry associations play a vital role in fostering collaboration and innovation, setting industry benchmarks and norms as well as championing the collective, the interests of their members. Yet, within this collaborative spirit lies a potential minefield for members of these associations where their cooperation can cross into anti-competitive territory, raising legal issues. The recent settlement […]

For the sixth year running, Cox Yeats Attorneys has been rated the Best Medium-sized Law Firm in South Africa 2023 at the annual PMR Awards. PMR, a South Africa-based consultancy and research company, aims to celebrate excellence, acknowledge and set a benchmark for others to aspire to and create an opportunity to recognize a team’s hard work and […]

The legal profession’s oldest and most respected peer-review title, Best Lawyers® has announced the winners in the 15th Edition of Best Lawyers® in South Africa for 2024. A total of 15 Cox Yeats lawyers were recognised in their areas of speciality on this year's list. Founded more than four decades ago, Best Lawyers was created […]

Cox Yeats’ success continues following the announcement that Cox Yeats Attorneys has been named the 2023 Law Firm of the Year for expertise in Insurance Law and Real Estate Law in the 14th Edition of Best Lawyers® in South Africa.

Cox Yeats Attorneys is proud to announce the expansion of its national footprint through the opening of a new office in Cape Town. Cox Yeats is a leading commercial law firm, offering a full range of legal services with a national and international focus. The firm’s head office is based in Umhlanga, Durban and its Johannesburg office was established in Sandton in 2020.

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Cox Yeats Attorneys is delighted to announce that the firm has been recognised by The Legal 500 in two categories in 2022, namely Shipping and Transport and Construction.  Through an annual comprehensive research programme, The Legal 500 analyses and ranks the capabilities of law firms across the world. The rankings are based on a series […]

The ‘covid factor’ that has permeated the world as we knew it over the past two years, has spurred a whole new lexicon, as people tried to put into words, the impact the virus has had on their lives. Pushed beyond previously unimaginable physical and emotional limits and with lives and livelihoods lost, South Africans […]

Durban, KwaZulu-Natal – Cox Yeats Attorneys are proud to announce that 14 of their partners will be recognised in the 13th Edition of Best Lawyers® in South Africa. This is the largest of their number ever to have been included in the prestigious annual list.  The publication is considered to be the oldest and most […]

Andrew Clark is the newly appointed managing partner of Cox Yeats Attorneys, based in uMhlanga Ridge, KwaZulu-Natal and which recently opened a Johannesburg branch in Sandton. He is also the head of the maritime, international trade and insurance law team within the firm.

After a decade of steering the firm through a successful period of continuous growth, Michael Jackson has confidently handed over the wheel.

DURBAN – As the new school year once again resumed for students, it soon became a reality that Covid19 was here to stay. The need for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for the matric students of Amaoti No 3 Secondary School, remained as real as it had been during 2020.

The year 2020 was difficult and challenging for all industries, and is one that will go down in the history books. Two short months into the year, life as we knew it was altered by the Covid-19 pandemic. With the national lockdown, businesses had to quickly adapt to a new way of operating.

The year 2020 was difficult and challenging for all industries, yet despite that, we all need to ensure that our clients still receive the best possible service. Cox Yeats firmly believes that growth in people and expertise is paramount to excellent client service. In addition, the law firm has a clear and compelling purpose, “To […]

South Africa’s construction industry has united to form an umbrella body, Construction Alliance South Africa (CASA) that is made up of 29 of the sectors’ professional, contractor, supplier and other bodies. The alliance was officially launched on 21 January 2021.

Many companies have limped their way through lockdown and have survived by cutting costs, predominantly through retrenching employees, and developing innovative business strategies to align with a changed market.