ABOUT THE CONSULTANCY

Potter Chetty Inc is a niche Corporate / Commercial legal consultancy, based in Sandton, Johannesburg.

 

The Practice is owned, and work carried out, by Josephine Chetty (née Potter), a South African Attorney and Notary.

 

Josephine has worked in legal practice in South Africa and the United Kingdom, having also spent a considerable part of her career in-house, including at a multinational commodity trader, where she managed the Southern African legal portfolio comprising a host of joint ventures. Given this background, she brings an “in-house” mindset to her practice.

 

Consulting services comprise more traditional Legal Advisory work, as well as an Outsourced Legal Counsel offering.

SERVICES

LEGAL ADVISORY SERVICES

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These services entail legal work commonly sought of and offered by Corporate / Commercial law firms. The nature of this work is to be distinguished from the Consultancy’s Outsourced Legal Counsel services. Whereas Legal Advisory services would, for example, involve reviewing a shareholders’ agreement, Outsourced Legal Counsel assistance could also involve providing a report on the adherence of that shareholders’ agreement to the client group’s investment policy, and/or a summary for the Board.

OUTSOURCED LEGAL COUNSEL SERVICES

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Clients may require such support when they do not have an in-house Legal Counsel or Advisor, or when capacity within that function is limited. The Practice is able to provide services typically performed by an in-house corporate / commercial Legal Counsel or Advisor, so as to free up clients’ time for other priorities. These activities are often time-consuming, as they involve extracting key findings from voluminous documents, and packaging them according to a client’s preferred decision-making style. This model seeks to bridge the gap between traditional law firm services and a business’ executive needs.