Evan Pickworth
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 3
- Latest publication
- Sep 2, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Businessday
- Top 100K sites
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- Aug 15, 2026
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PODCAST | Beneficial ownership: a compliance blind spot that can put your company at risk (opens the original)
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Mandatory beneficial ownership reporting is a good example of heightened compliance standards: it is no longer simply a Companies Act technicality but part of the basic governance hygiene of running a South African business, big or small. At its simplest, a beneficial owner is the natural person who ultimately owns or exercises effective control over a company, whether directly or indirectly. That sounds straightforward when one person owns 100% of a small business. It becomes more complicated w
PODCAST | Business rescue or last-ditch defence? When the process comes too late (opens the original)
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In many cases, by the time business rescue is considered, the business can no longer be rescued. In this edition of Business Law Focus, host Evan Pickworth interviews Dr Eric Levenstein, director and head of insolvency & business rescue at Werksmans, about the misuse of the process and practical steps to ensure it is used more appropriately as a mechanism for intervention rather than reaction. Central to the entire rescue framework is the requirement of a “reasonable prospect of rescue”. This is
PODCAST | Moving your IP offshore? Beware the related-party trap (opens the original)
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For South African technology businesses, entrepreneurs and companies looking to expand internationally, moving intellectual property (IP) into an offshore structure can seem an obvious next step. Software, platforms, patents, trade marks and other IP can become highly valuable assets, and housing them offshore may be attractive for international expansion, investment or broader corporate structuring. But there is an important catch: South African exchange-control rules regard IP as capital, and
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