Richard has successfully run many complex and high value cases and arbitrations for the firm’s clients. These include

• Acting for shareholders of a substantial land development company in arbitration proceedings against a retiring shareholder in a dispute regarding the valuation of shares to be acquired under a compulsory share by back of shares by the company of the retiring shareholder’s shares.
• Acting for a listed mining company in arbitration proceedings against several defendants in a contractual dispute regarding the repayment of amounts following its exit from an agreement to extract and beneficiate vanadium pentoxide. The award was subsequently enforced in the High Court.
• Acting for a listed mining company against judgment debtors to convert business rescue proceedings into liquidation proceedings.
• Acting for a financing business (a subsidiary of a listed company) against several defendants for the recovery of amounts owed to it. The claims are both for contractual amounts and damages suffered following a fraud perpetrated against the financing business.
• Acting for a multinational ICT company defending an action to review and set aside a contact awarded to it under a tender (and for reimbursement of amounts paid) and separate actions by the client for payment of amounts payable under the contract plus damages resulting from the repudiation of the contract that had been concluded.
• Defending a multinational company operating in the mining sector which manufactures and provides specialised equipment and services in a damages claim brought by a purchaser of a division that had been sold to it.
• Acting for an international hotel group in dispute with several franchisees regarding the entitlement of our client to charge for certain services and the amounts payable under various management agreements.
• Defending an international mining company against a claim for commission allegedly owed for the facilitation of a sale of shares where our client was purchaser.
• Acting for a security services provider at several airports in South Africa in urgent High Court proceedings in which an unsuccessful bidder for security services sought to interdict the appointment of our client.
• Acting for a listed South African hotel group in the High Court to evict a former employee from the resort’s staff residence.
• Acting for a listed diamond mining company in obtaining an urgent interdict in the High Court against protestors interfering with bus services offered to employees from surrounding towns to the mine which forced mine closures.
• Acting for a large company in the leisure and gambling sector against claims for commission alleged to be owed in respect of VAT refunds.
• Acting in arbitration proceedings on behalf a fuel supplier against a reseller which operated various forecourts for declaratory relief and related claims following breaches of relevant supply agreements.
• Acting in arbitration proceedings for two Zimbabwean beverage manufacturers (sister companies) against a South Africa supplier of certain plastic products which claimed amounts alleged to be due and payable plus damages for loss of profits following the alleged repudiation of the relevant supply contracts by our clients. The award published in favour of our clients was then enforced in High Court of South Africa.
• Acting for a listed pharmaceutical company for increased compensation following the expropriation of land owned by it located near its warehouse.
• Acting for a local company and its foreign shareholders against claims raised by a minority shareholder relating to a granite quarry.
• Separately advised two listed South African Banks with an application in the High Court to obtain a declarator authorising each to deliver shareholder communications including circulars and the like by way of e-mail as opposed to by post.
• Acting for a minority B-BBEE shareholder in a shareholder dispute with the majority shareholder of a South African company in the energy sector following the exercise by our client of a put option. The validity of the exercise of the put option and calculation of the value of the shares was in issue.  The matter was referred to arbitration before three arbitrators.  Following a successful award in favour of our client, the majority shareholder took the award on review and the award was set aside.  Our client then took the judgment in the review on appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeal and the appeal was upheld.