Miranda & Associates is a modern boutique corporate and commercial firm, providing tailored and integrated legal services across a wide range of practice areas.
Miranda & Associates is a modern South African boutique corporate and commercial firm, providing tailored and integrated legal services across a wide range of practice areas.
Our approach provides clients with efficiency and support where necessary to ensure the clients’ needs and objectives are fully supported and met in a cost effective manner. We combine the personnel and responsive service of a boutique firm with ‘big firm’ expertise.
Our legal advice is led by Partners whose experience and expertise means they are able to get to the heart of the matter quickly and come up with insightful, practical and commercial solutions in the shortest possible time frame. Our clients rate us as ‘excellent’ in terms of efficiency, understanding of business needs and keeping clients informed of progress and developments.
We continue to broaden the scope of our services and expertise in response to the emerging needs of our clients. We offer a workplace comprised of exceptional lawyers and support staff. Because of our size, stability, and carefully managed growth, we are able to pursue specialized resources, lawyers with experience in specific legal issues and practice areas. Our ability to provide small-firm client-oriented service with large-firm expertise makes MV Inc. Attorneys unique.
“A Great Alternative to the Established Industry Heavyweights”
A Next Generation Law Firm
Miranda & Associates is a new breed of law firm, a firm of business lawyers for small and medium sized enterprises, providing tailored and integrated legal services across a wide range of practice areas. Miranda & Associates have abandoned the ivory tower and embraced simplicity and technology while avoiding unnecessary overheads. Miranda & Associates is built to provide smart, lightweight, flexible and client focused legal services
Cost Certainty
You want great legal services at a reasonable and predictable price. We want to work with you to achieve your goals and focus on delivering results rather than chasing billable hours. If you want AAA office space and big boardrooms, we know lots of lawyers in large traditional law firms that would be happy to charge you for the privilege.
Designed to Fit Your Needs
Whether you are a start-up, growing business, established organization or an entrepreneur with big dreams and bigger goals, Miranda & Associates is designed to fit your needs. When running a business, you need to be flexible, client focused and constantly evolving to meet the needs of your customers. Shouldn’t your law firm operate the same way?
Client Meetings that Work for You
Life is busy and we don’t expect you to drop everything to visit our offices in the middle of your day. While we always like to meet in person, much of our work can be completed online, over email, the phone or video conference (Skype).
We Keep Things Simple
There will always be a place in the world for traditional high cost law firms. We simply believe our clients prefer working with a law firm that embraces a different set of values. In the law firm world where feigned complexity is put on a pedestal, we’re here to challenge the status quo and demystify the practice of law with transformative legal services.
Evolving to Meet Your Needs
Miranda & Associates is built from the ground up to embrace technology. We see it as a tool to improve service, not a threat to our business model.
Corporate & Commercial:
Miranda & Associates offers world class services offering an extensive range of commercial legal services. Our team provides advice in relation to:
• Business structures
• Takeovers, merger and acquisition transactions
• Due diligence
• Commercial contracts and arrangements
• Compliance
• Corporate governance and directors duties
• Trade practices
• Financial services
Construction & Engineering
Our services and areas of specialisation include:
• Advice on Standard Form Contracts (including FIDIC, NEC, JBCC and other standard forms recommended for use by the Construction Industry Development Board)
• Drafting of project specific contracts
• Construction and engineering sector mergers, acquisitions and disposals, and due diligences, Construction and engineering claims, and dispute resolution.
Employment Law
Our expert lawyers advise clients on all aspects pertaining to employment law, including:
• The individual employment relationship
• Basic conditions of employment
• Disciplinary investigations
• Dealing with grievances
• Poor performance hearings
• Dismissals for misconduct
• CCMA and Bargaining Council appearances
• All aspects of retrenchment
• Due diligence exercises, closures, mergers, sales of businesses and transfers
• Collective labour law, including strikes, lock-outs and collective agreements
• Dealing with trade unions
• Labour Court applications and trial
Insurance law
Miranda & Associates offers insurance expertise in both the dispute resolution and corporate departments, and we can wherever appropriate draw on the expertise in our other departments, such as Property and Employment Law.
Litigation & Arbitration
Our commercial litigation and dispute resolution team is available to assist your business achieve best outcomes from any legal dispute that it faces. Our team is skilled in court litigation as well as a range of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms to ensure that your business achieves the most appropriate cost-effective resolution. Our team offers advice on the following:
• Commercial
• Labour: CCMA hearings, internal disciplinary hearings and enquiries
• Tax disputes and alternate dispute resolution
• Arbitration and Mediation
• Family Law
• Forensic
Property / Conveyancing
Our Property / Real Estate team provides the following services:
• Advice in relation to township & town planning including subdivisions and consolidations
• Conveyancing
• Corporate real estate including retail, industrial and commercial properties
• Drafting of commercial agreements
• Debt and equity funding
• Due diligence investigations
• Notarial bonds and restrictive deeds
• Property management
• Registration of mortgage bonds and servitudes
• Sectional title and cluster developments
• Transfer of ownership in properties
Tax
We provide thoroughly considered and legally sound transactional tax advice to financial institutions, corporates and individuals. The tax practice aims to combine its commercial and tax law expertise to provide efficient tax solutions.
Wills, Estates & Trusts
• Estate Planning
• Wills
• Trust Formation
- Our firm offers comprehensive and tailored assistance to our corporate and individual clients on the creation, management and operation of South African trusts. Whether the trust is to be used for commercial purposes, wealth protection, investment, estate or tax planning, we will advise you appropriately. Our services also include advising on the most appropriate and tax efficient structure, the drafting of trust deeds, advice on trustee fiduciary and administration compliance and trust litigation
