Solicitors

Grant Esterhuizen

Grant Esterhuizen

Work Department

Corporate and commercial.

Position

Grant is a partner at Lester Aldridge who heads up the firm’s Commercial Group and Corporate Team. He is dual-qualified UK solicitor and South African attorney and has specialised in company and commercial law since qualifying in the UK.

Grant has over 20 years’ experience advising on commercial and corporate matters.  His advisory scope includes joint ventures, commercial agreements and corporate transactions. He has particular experience in cross-border corporate transactions, having closed transactions involving buyers or sellers based in foreign jurisdictions such as China, Australia, Canada, USA, Brazil, French Polynesia and Europe.

Grant has clients across a number of SME sectors and has specific specialism in advising clients in the software development, software licensing, manufacturing and export sectors.

His clients regard him to be commercial yet tenacious in his approach.

Career

Trained Bisset Boehmke McBlain attorneys (Cape Town, South Africa); qualified 1998 (attorney and conveyancer, South Africa), 2000 (solicitor, England and Wales); associate Lester Aldridge 2003; partner Ellis Jones LLP (2004-2009); partner Lester Aldridge LLP 2009 to date. Dual-qualified South African attorney and UK solicitor.

Languages

Afrikaans.

Memberships

China-Britain Business Council.

Education

Wynberg Boys’ High School, Cape Town (1989); University of Cape Town (1995); BA (1993); LLB (1995); attorney and conveyancer (South Africa) (1998); solicitor (England & Wales) (2000).

Leisure

Rugby (New Milton RFC), cricket (Lex XI), golf.

Mentions

Corporate and commercial • South West

Corporate and commercial: Dorset, Devon and Cornwall

Leading partner