About Us – GVS Law

GVS Law is a commercial law firm. The Western Cape office commenced practice in May 2009, whilst the Gauteng office opened its doors in May 2022. We have a combined total of 75 years of experience. We provide specialised commercial law services, specifically in the fields of the Law of Landlord and Tenant, transfers of property, commercial arbitrations, collection of levies for community schemes, drafting general agreements, correspondent attorney services, presenting seminars and training, and general collections.

Why Our Firm is Right for You

There are many commercial attorneys in South Africa, and trying to choose the correct firm might seem daunting. Almost all of them offer specialist legal advice, personal relationships with clients, and assisting client with resolving their legal problems.

We differentiate ourselves from our competitors on two main grounds:

We use technology to aid us in making our practice as efficient as possible, thereby reducing clients’ costs
We focus on delivering our services (documents to clients, court work, etc) as efficiently as possible

We can give you at least three good reasons why you should entrust your matters to us:

More than a three quarters of a century of combined experience.
We focus on relationships, not transactions.
Proven experience in our areas of practice.

Our Skills

Distil the essence from a set of facts
Time management
Understanding the needs of our clients and obtaining the best results
Building good relationships in the courts
Teamwork within the office to ensure proper knowledge management
Collaboration platform LEXA developed substantially with our input for ease of legal management and improved communication between our firms and our clients

GVS Law is the name and brand under which Ben Groot Attorneys Inc. provide legal services to clients around the world. GVS Law is constituted and regulated in accordance with relevant local regulatory and legal requirements and operate in accordance with its registered name. The use of the name GVS Law is for description purposes only. The responsibility for the provision of services to the client is defined in terms of engagement between the instructed firm and the client.

We believe that the only way to excel at our business is by being passionate about our work.

Building long-lasting personal relationships with all our clients and handling matters entrusted to us with passion is a matter of pride with us.

We do not only regularly appear in different courts throughout Western Cape and Gauteng but, as a result of our relationship with various law firms throughout the country, we offer services on a national basis, and we currently attend to matters throughout South Africa and Namibia. We have also assisted with matters through the rest of the African continent, and even as far afield as Europe.

We have very good relationships with a number of advocates throughout the country which in fact puts us within reach of the best expert assistance for our clients, where necessary. All our directors have obtained the right to appear in the High Court, which has the benefit to our clients that we ourselves are able to draw up summonses and pleadings to be used in the High Court, thereby saving our clients the expense of appointing advocates for mere drafting purposes.

Our mission is to provide our clients with legal advice that is ethical, reasonably priced, and commercially viable, in a professional yet approachable manner. Therefore, we place a strong emphasis on the commercial viability of proceeding with matters entrusted to us, as we have found that the relationship between a client and his or her attorney quickly deteriorates if it is no longer viable to proceed with legal action against a debtor.