BlackBox Law

Managing Partner:Alex Eliott

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BlackBox Law is a boutique firm specialising in Business Rescue, Business Restructuring and Insolvency. It was formed with the motivation to remove the barriers between the public and the law in the restructuring field – to give clear and simple advice no matter how complex the situation and by doing that, to lighten the burden on clients of their legal problems. Not just to think outside the box, but to show clients what’s inside the box. All the firm’s professional staff are legal practitioners who possess both deep experience and expertise in these fields as well as tailored experience in all the fields which underlie restructuring: distressed mergers and acquisitions, commercial litigation, labour law, company law and competition law.

• Business Rescue
• Informal business restructuring and strategy
• Insolvency law (including insolvency enquiries)
• Commercial law and drafting
• Company law
• Labour law
• Distressed Mergers and Acquisitions, including Banking Finance and Competition Law
• General litigation
• Sports law
• Gambling
• Commercial litigation, including:
• Business rescue-specific litigation
• Insolvency-specific litigation
• Business recoveries

BlackBox Law’s professionals have acted for many leading players in the business rescue and insolvency fields, in a wide range of industries and across the spectrum of stakeholders. These include Engaged Business Turnaround, Fluence Capital, Business Rescue Partner, Crest Capital, BDO Consulting, Corporate 911, Business Rescue Exchange, Unleash Consulting (business rescue practitioners); NUMSA, SAFPU (trade unions); South African Revenue Service (tax authority); Reichmans, Barak Fund (lenders); Government of Saint Helena (employer); Taung Gold/Arqomanzi, Sovereign Foods (investors); Regis Holdings (shareholder); Genesis Corporate Solutions, RMG Trust, BDO (insolvency practitioners);and other clients such as CNA, Consolidated Steel Industries, Metrofile and Paramount. and other clients such as CNA, Consolidated Steel Industries, Metrofile and Paramount.

Alex please note this guideline: A list of key clients (optional). A contact name and telephone number for each practice area (this may be a partner or the first point of contact for all enquiries).

Paramount and St Helena Government