
Viren Raja
Biography
Practice Focus
Representative Legal Matters
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Assisted in advising leading financial houses in South Africa in relation to a complex shareholders dispute involving the Steinhoff collapse.
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Conducts investigations, and advises and assists local and multinational clients, relating to breaches of anti-bribery, corruption, fraud, and money laundering laws and regulations, including in respect of reporting obligations, interactions with authorities, remedial measures and resulting criminal and civil proceedings.
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Represented and advised various mining and commercial companies in relation to their claims and rights in the business rescues of their respective debtors.
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Assisted in advising a leading banking institution in South Africa on its duties as a trustee of a collective investment scheme.
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Represented and advised the Reserve Bank of South Africa in relation to various insolvency related matters.
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Assisted in acting for a large JSE-listed construction company in arbitration proceedings and various insolvency-related matters.
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Assisted in representing a large management and business process outsourcing company in a litigation involving complex contractual issues.
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Assisted in acting for one of the largest multinational technology and on-line platform companies providing internet and related service products in various litigious matters involving their services.
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Assisted in representing a multinational food processing and packaging solutions company in insolvency and business rescue proceedings in its capacity as a major creditor.
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Assisted in advising and representing an international services, trading and distribution company listed on the JSE, South Africa in various litigious commercial disputes.
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Assisted in advising and representing a large international mining company listed on the JSE, South Africa in various litigious commercial disputes.
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Law Society of Northern Provinces - Member
- South Africa Restructuring and Insolvency Practitioners Association - Member
- INSOL International - Member
Languages
- English
Previous Offices
- Sydney