#BizTrends2024: Potholes and prosperity in store for employment law

[Tracy van der Colff] Last year was undoubtedly a challenging one for employers and employees. This article explores the road ahead in 2024 and some of the challenges and opportunities that employers may face...

#BizTrends2024: Trends shaping the corporate governance landscape

[Ricci Hackner] In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, amid prevalent corruption and public distrust, maintaining strong, transparent corporate governance is vital...

#BizTrends2024: Dispute resolution trends - rising demand for legal compliance and due diligence

[Kylie Slambert] Business disputes are becoming more frequent and costly, as organisations grapple with rapidly evolving risks...

#BizTrends2024: Adapting to change and the growing call for DEI

[Johan Botes] Legislation regulating local and international employer-employee relationships, increasing focus on DEI, and a crackdown on employees abusing their rights - these are a few of the employment trends we'll unpack in this article...

#BizTrends2024: Shaping the future of IP law in 2024 and beyond

[Dina Biagio] A plethora of micro, macro, and mega IP law trends have emerged over the past few years, which affect not only how we practice on a day-to-day basis but are also likely to transform the broader industry in South Africa and abroad...

#BizTrends2024: Key legislative developments and their impact on employment

[Chloë Loubser] The workplace is a dynamic environment. Employers are constantly adapting to keep up to date with changes to employment laws and developing workplace trends...

#BizTrends2024: Africa's growing role in global trade dynamics

[Virusha Subban] Africa's role in global trade is trending. According to a recent report by Standard Chartered - Future of Trade: Africa, Africa's total exports will reach almost $1tn by 2035...

#BizTrends2023: Quitting quiet quitting - balancing the needs of employers and employees

[Johan Botes] Challenges faced by both employers and employees in the workplace call for a redesign of workforce policies, says Baker McKenzie's Johan Botes...

#BizTrends2023: Say goodbye to the one-trick pony | Law trends 2023

[Koos Benadie] Koos Benadie, head of Commercial Law at Barnard, looks at trends impacting law firms and the way they operate in 2023...

#BizTrends2023: Trends in dispute resolution - ESG compliance and risk management in Africa

[Darryl Bernstein] Baker McKenzie's Darryl Bernstein discusses trends in environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategies as an essential component of business operations...

#BizTrends2023: African fintech is trending

[Ashlin Perumall] Ashlin Perumall, Baker McKenzie partner, looks at African fintech trends and the ways in which the sector will continue to expand across the continent in 2023...

#BizTrends2022: Intellectual property - is AI sufficiently central to Africa's agenda?

[Marco Vatta] The interplay of artificial Intelligence (AI) and intellectual property (IP) is hot on the agenda of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), which has published a draft paper on IP Policy and AI for comments by member states and other interested parties...

#BizTrends2022: The year ahead for employers

[Johan Botes] Three big issues that employers are considering as they prepare for 2022 include those relating to working from home; mandatory vaccine policies; and increased scrutiny of the gender and ethnicity pay gap...

#BizTrends2021: The post-pandemic workplace - a look at key trends

[Johan Botes] Putting the brakes on business travel and physical offices due to tech transformation...

#BizTrends2021: 'Wealth tax' unlikely to be government policy in near future as pressure on tax base mounts

[Albertus Marais] Looking back at 2020, the most significant development on the tax front must certainly have been government's tax relief measures aimed at helping businesses mitigate the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic...

#BizTrends2021: Key industry group trends in post-pandemic Africa

[Wildu du Plessis] In the midst of the planetary emergency of climate change, Covid-19 is testing modern civilisation's preparedness for shocks, across the spheres of finance, economics and technology; global, national and regional governance; global and population health; social cohesion and food security. This is according to Baker McKenzie's new report, Unprecedented: Converging Crises...

#BizTrends2019: Unsettling times ahead for employee tax and take-home pay

[Jerry Botha] The 2019 election year brings the normal risk of some tax populist decisions, including much higher social grants. This will add to the fiscus' pressure, desperate for additional tax revenues...

#BizTrends2019: 6 trends in fintech and its regulation

[David Geral] The South African financial sector has been waiting with bated breath for South Africa's financial regulators to map the way forward and we expect this guidance to be forthcoming early in 2019...

#BizTrends2019: Out with the old, in with the new!

[Marisa Jacobs] Large corporates and multinationals are keeping a close eye on developments from the Department of Home Affairs. 2019 promises a number of changes in the Immigration Act which will impact the way business can attract and retain expat resources...

#BizTrends2019: When it comes to gazing, crystal ball beats navel in 2019

[Johan Botes] In this age of overflowing inboxes, diaries filled with meetings sandwiched between conference calls and yet another round of performance assessments, managing time and focus requires Herculean effort...