More About Our Team
We believe that honest advice and integrity leads to informed and cost effective decisions by clients on all aspects of litigation and commerce.
Well-Established
Solutions Driven
Specialists In Our Fields
Close involvement facilitates long lasting and personal relationships with our clients, which is the cornerstone of our practice. Similarly, this approach ensures that all matters are concluded in an expedient and cost effective manner.
The firm was established by Christo Sutherland in 1996.
Louw Kruger joined in 2008 and has been an invaluable member of the team since.
A new milestone was reached by the incorporation of Sutherland Kruger during 2015, which has taken the values and ethos that had already been established and entrenched for nineteen years, to the next level.
We value our energetic, dedicated and deeply knowledgeable team by acknowledging the importance of family and in affording greater flexibility for family time.
We believe in adding value to your business through personal service, expertise and a solution driven mindset.
DIRECTOR
Christo Sutherland • Johannesburg
BA LLB (University of Stellenbosch)
Coming from a legal family, who excelled in practice and academia, Christo has a deep passion for the law and the application thereof in practice. His special interest lies in researching and unravelling complicated legal problems. He is a seasoned litigator and trial lawyer whose decades of experience, attention to detail and strategic skills sets him apart. Since he was admitted as an attorney of the High Court in 1996, he has specialised in sectional titles, community schemes, property law, general litigation, office automation, arbitrations and insolvency law. Over the years he has established a strong and loyal following of clients in these fields.
As the head legal advisor to JCI (from 2008 – 2014), he was intimately involved in the extensive investigations and recoupment of losses sustained by various companies, pursuant to the billions of Rands of fraud perpetrated by the previous directors of JCI and Rand Gold and he has a great deal of experience in unravelling fraud and forensic investigations.
Christo has built his career on integrity, hard work and accuracy and is passionate about seeing those values all throughout the practice.
DIRECTOR
Louw Kruger • Johannesburg
LLB (University of Johannesburg)
With his attention to detail, experience and tenacity, Louw has developed a deep passion for litigation. He feels equally at ease in the boardroom or in the trenches and his exceptionally high success record in litigation bears testimony to this.
Louw has a pragmatic and solution driven approach to litigation and believe that the interests of his clients are paramount, be it financial or personal. This distinguishes him as a persuasive and thorough litigant and a skilful negotiator. Since being admitted as an attorney of the High Court in 2010, Louw has been specialising in evictions, office automation, tele-communications and sectional titles through which he has built a strong and loyal following of clients in these sectors.
“I take pride in eliminating the facelessness of the industry, by having personalised contact with all my clients and their staff and in establishing long lasting and trusting relationships.”
Among others, Louw acts for:
Electronic Communications Network (Pty) Ltd
Pansolutions Holdings (Pty) Ltd
Nashua Communications (Pty) Ltd
Pan Business Communications (Pty) Ltd
The Smart Group (Pty) Ltd