award winning property lawyers.

From Cape Town to Beyond

Flinc, Fÿfer Legal Inc, is a top law firm working exclusively on high value and complex transactions. We act for clients from around the world who are buying, selling, and mortgaging commercial and luxury property in South Africa and beyond.

We provide expert advice on ownership restructurings, leases and renewals, and cases involving multiple jurisdictions and sophisticated lending and security.

Flinc, represents exclusive corporates and ultra-high-net-worth individuals.

Whether you are buying, selling, or refinancing a property, being represented by a top real estate lawyer will ensure your case is dealt with swiftly, rigorously, and confidentially.

We support our clients’ strategic and operational needs by offering innovative, integrated and reliable legal advice across our range of legal services. We understand that each client has unique needs, and we tailor our services to their requirements. We provide depth of skills and resources to respond to clients’ business needs locally, or anywhere else in the world.

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Our team is headed up by CEO Daniel (Boy) Fÿfer supported by a professional team who have specialist skills in various areas of law. With a comprehensive support structure, our team offers a full range of property related services to assist you with any property transaction or issue you might face.

Our team in Cape Town is also able to call on specialist expertise of real estate lawyers throughout the world who have in-depth knowledge and direct experience of real estate matters in their local markets. This means that we can give you expert advice and are able to project manage your transaction in whichever jurisdiction.

We act for private sector clients across all asset types, ranging from financial services institutions to capital market players such as listed property funds, real estate investment funds, renewable energy, asset managers and property syndicates. We advise many local and international (institutional) investors. Our clients include corporate and residential property owners, managers and occupiers, and developers of commercial, retail, industrial and residential properties.

Our clients belong to a broad range of industries including hospitality and leisure, energy and natural resources, infrastructure development and construction. We have expertise in advising on golf estates and game farms, time-share schemes, cluster and sectional title developments, retirement villages, share blocks and the formation of residents’ associations, and the like.

In the public sector we have acted for government departments and state-owned entities, and we represent land and top structure developers in the affordable housing market.

Our clients benefit from our significant experience in coordinating complex projects across the full spectrum of real estate related transactions. These transactions range from listing property funds and sectional title regulation to all types of conveyancing transactions, from commercial and industrial issues to other forms of land tenure and rights to land.

Our team offers a full range of services to the real estate sector. We advise on every component of a transaction, including commercial and private or residential real estate acquisitions and disposals, property finance, leasing, management and disputes, structuring, restructuring, and environmental and regulatory matters.

Our lawyers, notaries and conveyancers provide a full range of services from the acquisition of real estate through to project development and implementation. Our team advises on every component of a real estate transaction.

Our team combines the expertise of our finance and banking and property practice areas.

We work with South African and international institutional investors on acquisitions and disposals, as well as advising real estate funds, private equity real estate funds and infrastructure funds on fund structuring, promotion, management and administration.

At Flinc, we understand the business needs of mortgage financiers and the risk implications of the various forms of real security such as mortgage and notarial bonds. We have experience in securitisation schemes, acquisition and leveraged finance, project finance, syndicated lending, infrastructure and development.

Our team advises banks and other financial institutions on structuring commercial and home loan products, systems and related processes, and all security and related standard documents.

Whatever your interest in a development project, we have the experience to help maximise the value of your position. From land assembly to final sale, our experts in property, tax, planning, construction and environmental regulation apply cross-sector best practice to ensure optimal results for you. Our focus is on timely completion of projects, financial return on investment and the negotiation of robust but acceptable leasing terms.

We help our clients throughout the process and our team anticipates and pre-empts planning problems, advising on the most pragmatic and commercial approach to any development.

Our teams deal efficiently and proactively with all aspects of property management work, including leases. We handle all types of properties, from industrial units to commercial property and from residential and mixed-use properties to office and retail space.

our resume speaks for itself.