UGANDA ENERGY AND MINING LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR, CR AMANYA ADVOCATES & SOLICITORS BANKING & FINANCE LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR, CR AMANYA ADVOCATES & SOLICITORS
resources. CRAA is Prae Legal’s exclusive partner in Uganda.
C.R. Amanya Advocates & Solicitors (CRAA) is a leading law firm in Uganda. It is a full service corporate commercial law firm focused on providing tailor made services to all its clients.
CRAA is able to draw on a wide base of skills and expertise required at all levels of experience and to provide correct legal advice that makes business sense. In order to achieve this, CRAA’s legal practitioners are required to clearly understand client needs in the context of the broader issues at stake to be able to provide effective, appropriate and efficient advice to solve any challenge that our clients face in this cosmopolitan world.
CRAA provides a full range of services to an extensive client base both international and local clients. The Firm’s main areas of specialization are Banking & Finance, Energy & Mining, Corporate & Commercial, Transport & Infrastructure, Employment, Pension & Immigration, Insolvency & Corporate Restructuring, Intellectual Property, Conveyancing & Securities and Dispute Resolution.
CRAA’s success till date is as a result of the diversity of its team. This diversity is in terms of skills, qualifications, interests and backgrounds. It is due to this diversity that has set CRAA apart coupled with superior legal skills and a commitment to excellence, integrity, hard work and the ability to find innovative solutions to all complex legal problems that our clients face that continues to enable it frequently exceed our clients’ expectations and therefore a force to reckon with in the legal industry in Uganda, the East African region and Africa at large.
CRAA’s network of expertise extends much further than the country’s borders. The Firm is a member and partners with international networks of lawyers like AEA, an association of international lawyers’ network. The firm is also a member of Prae Legal, a vast network of well-established 242 law offices in trade centers in 131 countries. This allows CRAA to provide its clients with access to global legal
SOUTH AFRICA TURNAROUND LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR, CAWOOD ATTORNEYS SEQUESTRATION LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR, CAWOOD ATTORNEYS GAMECHANGER OF THE YEAR, WERNER CAWOOD, CAWOOD ATTORNEYS
CAWOOD ATTORNEYS 305 Melk Street Corner of Melk & Bronkhorst Streets Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria, South Africa, 0181 P.O. Box 273, Groenkloof, 0027 Tel: +27 12 072 0109 Cellular: +27 82 776 4851 E-mail: info@cawoodlaw.co.za rescue@cawoodlaw.co.za Web: www.cawoodlaw.co.za
Werner Cawood has been specializing in turning companies around for more than 9 years. Throughout his career in crisis management, Mr. Cawood has served as an interim executive officer and reorganization director for both medium and small companies, public and private, with annual revenues up to R250 million. In addition to offering expert-witness testimony regarding business valuations, turnarounds, and plan feasibilities, he has served as a court-appointed business rescue practitioner throughout South Africa. Mr. Cawood’s corporate restructuring and workout experience span over a broad range of industries, and he also uses his skills to help boards of directors prevent future crises from happening. Moreover, he is known for his lateral approach to problem solving in distressed corporate environments and he is not afraid of approaching the Courts in order to achieve his goals in this relatively new industry for South Africa. Mr. Cawood is a Principal at the prestigious law firm, Cawood Attorneys, based in Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa. Mr. Cawood established Cawood Attorneys in March 2009 and established the firm as specialists in the National Credit Act, consumer and company related matters until the inception of the New Companies Act in April 2011, when the focus of the firm expanded to Corporate Renewal Solutions and Turnaround Management in terms of Chapter 6 of the Companies Act. For more than 9 years Mr. Cawood has researched new methods and law to utilize in the turnaround and renewal of corporate entities which has led to numerous precedents being created in South African Courts. In addition, Mr. Cawood has served as a financial and legal advisor to individuals and trusts. Notable Engagements: Mr. Cawood has served as an executive officer or reorganization expert for numerous private companies with public debt. Mr. Cawood has served as interim officer or director of reorganization at more than 45 closely held companies for various industries, including financial services, education, real estate, computers/IT, media, telecommunications, electronics, consumer products, distribution, entertainment, leisure, retail, manufacturing, materials and construction, metals, petroleum, energy and mining. Expert Testimony Mr. Cawood has provided expert testimony in many Court cases as part of his restructuring responsibilities. In addition, he has been an expert witness in the feasibility of corporate restructuring plans.
Specialties • Financial Restructuring • Business Rescue • Insolvency • Commercial Litigation/ Arbitrations • Restructuring Bank Debt • Asset Liquidations • Alternative Restructures to Business Rescue • Corporate Due Diligence • Bond Restructuring • Corporate Downsizing • Estate Liquidations Awards & Publications • “Business Rescue- The age of the creditor is over” published by FM Essentials - http://www.fmessentials.com/newsletters/ce/2013/august/articles/cawood_attorneys.html • “Business Rescue-possible after the granting of a final liquidation order” published by Lexology –https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=a4d86768-aa73-4ac3-99ba-eafe646b9913 • “Business Rescue- Companies starting to rise from the dead” published by Financier Worldwide– http://www.financierworldwide.com/business-rescue-companies-starting-to-rise-from-the-dead /#.U4IW4_mSzfI • 2014 Turnaround Business Rescue Award Winner Education: Bachelors of Law (LLB) – Potchefstroom University Advanced diploma in Business Rescue – UNISA Licenced Business Rescue Practitioner – CIPC