Zandile Gando
Associate | Johannesburg
Contact
T: +27 11 669 9649
Overview
Zandile has experience assisting local and international clients on complex commercial litigation, arbitration and regulatory-related disputes across a range of industries, including financial services, pension funds and medical schemes, insurance, and the public sector.
Her experience includes High Court litigation, Supreme Court of Appeal and Constitutional Court matters, class action litigation, arbitrations, and alternative dispute resolution processes such as mediation. She has worked on contractual and commercial disputes, shareholder and lease disputes, public law and administrative law challenges, and insurance and financial services regulatory and compliance disputes.
Experience
* Indicates experience gained prior to joining Bowmans.
Zandile has advised/assisted:
- An international mining company in relation to ongoing class action certification proceedings.
- A sectoral pension fund in a multimillion‑rand recovery claim in the Johannesburg High Court against a leading South African investment consulting firm.
- An insurance broker in arbitration proceedings and related litigation against a major insurer, including advice on regulatory compliance issues.
- An insurance conglomerate in an urgent Anton Piller application to secure and protect proprietary and confidential information, including related regulatory advice.
- Ericsson Sub‑Saharan Africa in a contractual claim exceeding USD 19 million instituted by a foreign natural person.
- A state‑owned company in a Constitutional Court challenge against another state‑owned company arising from an alleged breach of a master services agreement.
- Financial services providers in reconsideration proceedings before the Financial Services Tribunal.
- Various corporate, public and insurance entities in commercial and contractual disputes.
- Pension funds and medical schemes in regulatory and compliance matters.
Qualifications
- BSc (Medical Sciences) (with distinction), University of Pretoria
- LLB (with distinction), University of Pretoria
INSIGHTS
Overview
Zandile has experience assisting local and international clients on complex commercial litigation, arbitration and regulatory-related disputes across a range of industries, including financial services, pension funds and medical schemes, insurance, and the public sector.
Her experience includes High Court litigation, Supreme Court of Appeal and Constitutional Court matters, class action litigation, arbitrations, and alternative dispute resolution processes such as mediation. She has worked on contractual and commercial disputes, shareholder and lease disputes, public law and administrative law challenges, and insurance and financial services regulatory and compliance disputes.
Experience
* Indicates experience gained prior to joining Bowmans.
Zandile has advised/assisted:
- An international mining company in relation to ongoing class action certification proceedings.
- A sectoral pension fund in a multimillion‑rand recovery claim in the Johannesburg High Court against a leading South African investment consulting firm.
- An insurance broker in arbitration proceedings and related litigation against a major insurer, including advice on regulatory compliance issues.
- An insurance conglomerate in an urgent Anton Piller application to secure and protect proprietary and confidential information, including related regulatory advice.
- Ericsson Sub‑Saharan Africa in a contractual claim exceeding USD 19 million instituted by a foreign natural person.
- A state‑owned company in a Constitutional Court challenge against another state‑owned company arising from an alleged breach of a master services agreement.
- Financial services providers in reconsideration proceedings before the Financial Services Tribunal.
- Various corporate, public and insurance entities in commercial and contractual disputes.
- Pension funds and medical schemes in regulatory and compliance matters.
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