INTRODUCING COMPANY’S BUSINESS PROFILE OF MATOJANE MALUNGANA INCORPORATED ATTORNEYS AND CONVEYANCERS PROFILE OF MATOJANE MALUNGANA INC. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 2004/012420/23 INTRODUCTION AND BACKROUND EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Matojane Malungana Incorporated is an entirely black owned and managed law firm with its head office at 15 Shepherd Avenue, Bryanston, Randburg, Johannesburg, and the contact details are as follow: Telephone: (011) 463 8571 / 076 Facsimile: (011) 463 7388 / 086 Email: Pmalungana@mmalunganainc.co.za / Pmalungana@lantic.net The firm’s composition of staff is representative of gender and equity requirements, comprised of attorneys, candidate attorneys, administrative and support staff members with extensive experience in the legal field. The team strives to ensure innovative and efficient solutions to meet the needs of clients. The provision for the future is to build a stable brand in the legal fraternity, and be able to provide efficient professional legal services and always provide value for money and cost effective legal services and solutions to our clients. It is the firm’s acknowledgement that for the future to be bright, amongst others, it must be sufficiently flexible to ensure that it is client’s needs and mandate which form an integral part of the operational agenda of a project, and that will ensure that clients achieve their objectives as much as is legally possible, thereby minimizing risk. CORE BUSINESS The firm offer a wide range of legal services to its clients, both private and corporate. In so doing, it strive to be a leader in the provision of innovative legal services. MISSIONS We find priority in understanding the culture and business environment in which our client operate. We align ourselves with client’s strategic objectives, ensuring a maximum input at all levels of client’s supply chain. FIELDS/AREAS OF EXPERTISE •DEBT-COLLECTION AND RECOVERIES MATTERS As a firm of attorneys and unlike what the limited services that Debt-Collecting Agencies can do, we offer an additional and professional service by being able to proceed against debtors via legal recourse such as the issuing of Summons, the obtaining of judgments, the issuing of warrants of execution against property (i.e. both movable and immovable) and the sale of attached assets. We have the necessary skills, knowledge and capacity in this particular field. We have the necessary ability and capacity to deal successfully with considerably large volumes of instructions on a regular basis. We acknowledge and appreciate the fact that there shall be a somewhat nominal percentage of instructions that require the issuing of summons are defended by the debtors and we, therefore, submit that we have the necessary knowledge, skills and experience to effectively litigate in both the Magistrate’s and High Courts. •Liquidation matters •Drafting of Service Level Agreements •Vetting of Contracts •Third party claims •Administration services •Conveyancing and Property related matters • Corporate and Commercial Law • Legal Opinions on various legal issues •Employment Law and Dispute Resolutions • Family Law LITIGATION The firm does High Court and Magistrate’s court litigation matters with emphasis on: •Civil litigation, and •Commercial litigation. ASSOCIATES/ SUBCONTRACTORS We utilize the services of the Sheriff of the Court to deal with the serving of summons and other incidental pleadings on debtors. RESOURCES Patrick Malungana: who have a B.luris from the University of the North, having been admitted as an attorney in …… He holds 100% of the issued share capital. PROFESSIONAL ASSISTANTS •Karabo Mmolawa has an LLB degree as well as a BCOM Law degree both from the University of the Western Cape. CANDIDATE ATTORNEYS •Leonard ….has an LLB degree from the University of …….. ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF MEMBERS (I don’t think we sgould add this part thou) The firm’s administrative staff is AS follows: - FINANCIAL AND OPERATIONAL STABILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY The firm has financial and human resources enough to handle and sustain any legal project up to completion. It has at its disposal all the necessary information technology infrastructure expected of a modern law firm enabling us to function competitively and efficiently as is expected of an emerging law firm, more particularly facilities to enable it to communicate electronically with corporate institutions. The firm has a full computerized accounting system that enables it to properly bill clients’ and account monthly. We engage in rendering statements to clients monthly or on a regular basis in accordance with a clients unique specification. FEES Our fee structure is based on existing and acceptable tariffs, guidelines and standards existing in the legal fraternity and sanctioned by the Law Society of South Africa. We have an open door policy to discuss and/or negotiate with clients in regard to a fee structure that is accommodative of a client and to discuss our clients’ reasonable request. AFFIRMATIVE ACTION PROGRAMME The firm is 100% black owned and managed: - There is a women empowerment policy in terms of which the firm always ensure that we train female professionals by giving them opportunities to serve articles at the firm, and ultimately climb up the latter to be on director and shareholder level. In upholding affirmative action and related policies, the firm is committed to: •Create and sustain a law firm with majority ownership held by historically disadvantaged individuals and women, •Support BEE and SMME organisations through our ongoing policies as regards training and employment opportunities including procurement of external services, and, •Developing our employees’ creative abilities to their fullest potential by encouraging further studying and embracing on skills development thereby enhancing their creativity and knowledge MISSION STATEMENT We exist to provide sustainable, effective and professional legal services to our client. Driven by our quest for excellence and in partnership with our clients, we always keep abreast of legal and business developments and create innovative practical legal solutions. We aspire to provide professional and cost effective legal services to our clients and to always stay in touch with the latest technological developments in order to be able to provide world class and turn key solutions to our clients, so as to render services less costly and timeously. We strive to provide legal solutions to clients whilst building enhancing and consolidating relationships between client and their stakeholders and to be a responsible law firm, operating ethically and contributing to growth in CONTACT DETAILS POSTAL ADDRESS: P.O. BOX 76 JOHANNESBURG 2000 TELEPHONE NO: (011) 463 8571 FAX NUMBER: (011) 463-7388 FAX TO E-MAIL 086 582 9425 E-MAIL ADDRESS: pmalungana@mmalunganainc.co.za karabo@mmalunganainc.co.za CONTACT PERSONS: MR. P H Malungana 0825768534