Our Team
The Alchemy team
Our team is highly proficient in strategic, financial, and legal project management, and applies exceptional intellect and experience to the provision of business-like advice.
Through our in-depth understanding of each international or local client's needs, we furnish practical legal solutions to their multifaceted business challenges. Furthermore, as lead counsel, we operate across all relevant jurisdictions to achieve our clients' desired results.
Morné van der Merwe
Partner
Morné, a partner and co-founder of Alchemy, is a recognised international dealmaker. He routinely assists clients with merger and acquisition matters, securities law, mining transactions, broad-based black economic empowerment transactions, capital markets, corporate finance and structuring, leveraged and management buy-outs,…
Wildu du Plessis
Partner
Wildu, a partner and co-founder of Alchemy, is a renowned expert on Africa. He represents and advises leading domestic and international financial institutions, private equity groups, and corporates in connection with a wide variety of financing transactions, acquisitions, restructurings, regulatory,…
Fani Dingiswayo
Partner
Fani, a partner and co-founder at Alchemy, has extensive experience in private legal practice and as an in-house lawyer. He represents and advises leading domestic clients in the construction, engineering, services, and mining industries – handling both contractual negotiations and…
Natashua Coetzer
Partner
Natashua is a partner at Alchemy providing expertise to the firm’s corporate and commercial law disciplines among others. Her proficiency extends across a number of industry sectors. Before joining Alchemy, she was a director of a boutique law firm focusing…
Pierre Burger
Partner
Pierre is a highly experienced, dual-qualified, accredited and internationally respected dispute resolution practitioner. He has served on the Management Committees of the South African Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) as well as the Arbitration Foundation of Southern…
Justin Benjamin
Partner
Justin, a partner in our Corporate and Commercial law department, has extensive cross-border, mergers and acquisitions and complex transaction structuring expertise. His proficiency extends across a number of industry sectors, with a particular focus on mining. Before joining Alchemy, Justin…
John Bell
Partner
John, a partner in our dispute resolution department, specialises in complex commercial and corporate litigation. He brings extensive experience across both domestic and international arbitrations, adjudications, mediation, commissions of enquiry, and statutory tribunals, including the Financial Services Tribunal and Competition…
Bruce Schubach
Chief Operating Officer
Bruce, our co-founder and chief operating officer, has extensive executive capability in the legal sector. He is business-minded and enjoys engineering the growth of Alchemy as an experience-heavy legal advisory resource for clients.