Based in the country’s three major economic hubs, Sandton, Cape Town and Umhlanga, Cox Yeats is a dynamic national law firm which has earned a reputation as a leader in commercial and personal legal services.

Since 1964, when Cox Yeats was founded in KwaZulu-Natal, the firm has continued to rely on innovative and sustainable solutions to overcome the many storms which South Africa, and particularly KwaZulu-Natal, has faced. In addition, although the business has grown substantially over the past five decades, the firm’s founding principles of integrity, approachability, and individuality are as strong now as ever. By continuing to live this DNA, Cox Yeats hopes to assure the public of a future as exciting and inspiring as the many years that came before.

Service offering
As a national law firm, Cox Yeats is well positioned and able to render a range of legal services across provincial borders, regardless of location. Services include business law; competition law; construction law, engineering, and infrastructure law; insurance law; corporate mergers and acquisitions law; insolvency and business rescue law; maritime and international trade law; property law; empowerment and transformation; information technology law; litigation and alternative dispute resolution; medical schemes; natural resources and energy; tax law; and trust and estate planning.

Highly Specialised
Both evolving and experienced professionals make up its specialised teams, ensuring that Cox Yeats is a true-life partner to their clients. Each team has its own structure and unique approach; however, all teams have quality service, quick response, and client confidence in common. This ethos allows them to leverage off each other’s different insights, allowing for ‘vibrant cross pollination’ and attention to detail.

Cox Yeats is well respected for its capacity to achieve results. Its successes can be attributed to all the professionals’ real commitment to their clients, an ability to be forward thinking and a genuine desire to achieve their clients’ commercial and strategic objectives. Cox Yeats will also work with clients to assist them in responding to opportunities and to anticipate legal and commercial issues that might affect their businesses.

Employee welfare
The belief that the firm’s greatest asset is its people has enabled Cox Yeats to rise above the prevailing circumstances of recent years. Accordingly, the firm recognises that employee welfare is central to its success and as such significant strides are taken by management to ensure that employees can achieve a work-life balance and are ultimately cared for and supported both in and outside of work. Being part of a firm where every individual is encouraged to reach their potential is one of its most appealing offerings.

This proactive and positive culture will enable Cox Yeats to continue to attract and retain the top talents as they enter the profession. The Cox Yeats attorneys are backed by a very strong professional team and staff turnover is extremely low.

Awards, Recognitions and Accolades
Cox Yeats has consistently been rated among the top law firms in the country with many of its professionals listed in top legal publications as well as various industry-specific guides.

The firm and several of its professionals have been recognised in national, continental, and international legal directories and awards such as the Best Lawyers, Legal 500, Chambers Global, the African Legal Awards and PMR Africa amongst others.

Cox Yeats has been rated the Number one medium law firm in South Africa for the fourth consecutive year after winning the PMR Africa 2023 Diamond Arrow Award. The firm was named the 2023 Property and Insurance Law firm of the Year by Best Lawyers.

In 2022, Cox Yeats received an award as a winner in the Employee wellbeing category, in the sixteenth edition of the Standard Bank KZN Top Business Awards.