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Our Team

PJ Hope
Director

Principal areas of practice:
Mergers and acquisitions
Public market transactions
General corporate and commercial law
Private equity
Competition law

PJ is a founder and director of virtual legal advisory firm LHC Advisory. Until 30 June 2020 PJ was a Partner in the PwC Legal team, based in Johannesburg. PJ was a founding partner in the firm Read Hope Phillips, the forerunner of PwC Legal South Africa. Prior to establishing Read Hope Phillips, PJ was a director of Brait Advisory Services, a division of Brait, and before that partner in the firm Rabin van den Berg & Pelkowitz Attorneys.

Professional registrations
Admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa, 1992
Admitted as an attorney of the New York State Bar, 1995

Qualifications
Master of Laws (LLM), Columbia Law School, New York, USA
Bachelor of Laws (LLB), University of Cape Town
Bachelor of Arts (BA) with Honours, University of Cape Town
Bachelor of Arts (BA), University of Cape Town

Andrew Cadman
Director

Principal areas of practice:
Mergers and acquisitions
Public market transactions, listings and de-listings
General corporate, commercial and contract law
Competition law, procurement law and investment protection law

Andrew is a founder and director of virtual legal advisory firm LHC Advisory. Until 30 June 2020, Andrew was a Partner in PwC Legal South Africa, based in Johannesburg.
Andrew was a founding partner in the firm Read Hope Phillips Thomas & Cadman Inc, the forerunner of PwC Legal South Africa. Prior to establishing Read Hope Phillips Thomas & Cadman Inc, Andrew was a director of Brait Advisory Services, a division of Brait.

Professional registrations
Admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa, 1997
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

Qualifications
Bachelor of Laws (LLB), University of KwaZulu-Natal
Master of Laws (LLM), London School of Economics
Bachelor of Laws with Honours (LLB)(Hons), University of Edinburgh
Bachelor of Business Science (BBusSc), University of Cape Town

Tammy Bortz
Consultant

Lawyer - Tammy Bortz & Associates:
Advise global business on a broad range of technology related transactions across diverse industries, including complex outsourcing and service levels, managed services, and cloud solutions. Advise on diverse data privacy issues including application of POPIA, GDPR, review and drafting of data processor/operator agreements, privacy policies, privacy notices, consents, information technology usage and document retention policies, auditing cloud provider terms and conditions, privacy and security policies.

Experienced Commercial technology attorney with extensive experience in wide range of technology related transactions.

Advise Global Corporations (South Africa, Africa, UK, Europe) on the legal aspects of privacy and data protection including the Protection of Personal Information Act, GDPR and Africa privacy legislation.

Works with multidisciplinary advisory teams on global privacy implementation projects across diverse industries and territories.

Speaker at conferences and inhouse staff training