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Chris heads up the closure and structuring of commercial transactions for Laduma Creative Enterprises Ltd in its UK office, based in Liverpool. Laduma is a cutting-edge digital media and immersive-tech consultancy and production house who is a forerunner in the fields of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR)/Mixed Reality (MR) technology applications within the exciting and emerging industry of Immersive Technology experiences within commerce and industry, worldwide.
Before joining Laduma in April 2018, Chris merged his law firm with the prestigious firm, Cox Yeats, in South Africa as a partner in March 2013, after running his own law firm for over 12 years. He started up their Employment Law Department and his expertise lies in labour relations, commercial work, civil litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) practice. As an arbitrator, he is a Fellow of the Association of Arbitrators (Southern Africa) and is also a qualified Mediator, with over 20 years' experience in private practice, specialising in Employment Law, Business Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). He also has a background lecturing Business Law & Labour Law at university and colleges and as a public & private trainer in Labour Law.
During his legal career, apart from training managers and business owners in IR best practices, Chris often represented corporate employers and high level employees in various labour disputes, chaired, prosecuted staff and defended clients in numerous disciplinary hearings, advised on and implemented retrenchments within the private sector, dealt with a range of Bargaining Council & trade union disputes, litigated in many High Court contractual/commercial dispute cases, drafted significant large commercial transactions, including consulting on and facilitating difficult business restructures, plus assisting businesses with BBBEE compliance and has provided countless legal opinions in the fields of both Employment & Commercial Law.
Currently, Chris heads up the closure and structuring of commercial transactions for Laduma Creative Enterprises Ltd in its UK office, based in Liverpool. Laduma is a cutting-edge digital media and immersive-tech consultancy and production house who is a forerunner in the fields of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR)/Mixed Reality (MR) technology applications within the exciting and emerging industry of Immersive Technology experiences in commerce and industry, worldwide.
