BA LLB – Partner
Email
Tel: 021 300 1070
Cel: 083 322 2445
skype: johngiles
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John has 10 years of experience applying his knowledge to organisations to help them grow and avoid legal problems, difficulties, or disputes. He always tries to add value to his clients. His embraces and uses technology to provide the best possible services to his clients. John focusses on:
- Corporate and commercial law – the things that regulate companies and the administration of companies. Especially, the memorandum of incorporation and shareholders agreements
- The law relating to information, communication and technology
- High value, complex end-to-end commercial technology transactions. He has advised large multi-national technology vendors (so is aware of international best practice) as well as small start-ups. He has also helped companies that procure technology and technology users
- IT Governance, Risk and Compliance (IT GRC)
- Privacy and the Protection of Personal Information (POPI)
- Plain legal language (especially in the context of the Consumer Protection Act)
- The law relating to marketing
Specialities
Critical thinking to reach clarity. Making complexity, simple. Documents, discussions, processes, and laws are often very complicated – they don’t have to be. Helping people understand the implications of laws. Analyzing a situation to work out a practical course of action. Syncing body, mind and soul while surfing.
Experience
Partner at Michalsons Attorneys (October 2008 – Present)
Partner at Harty Rushmere Attorneys (April 2000 – September 2006)
- Technology transactions, including transactions involving software and services, enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementations, outsourcing, on-demand hosted solutions, and Software as a Service (SaaS).
- Marketing (including internet marketing) and advertising, including competitions and sponsorships.
- Digital or new media.
- Supplier agreements.
- Channel agreements.
- Collaboration and teaming.
- Tenders.
- Source code escrow arrangements.
- Electronic and mobile commerce, and the Internet, including web site terms.
- Intellectual property, especially copyright and confidentiality issues.
- Access to information, privacy and protection of personal information.
- Information governance.
- Commercial deals of all types, including black economic empowerment deals.
- Commercial transactions, such as sale and shareholder agreements.
- Issues unique to technology start-ups.
- Gaming, both traditional and online.
- Domain names, including transfers and disputes.
Admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa in August 2001.
Education
Microsoft Corporation Incorporated – MCSE, Systems Engineer, 1998 – 1999. Networking essentials and implementing and supporting various Microsoft technologies.
Stellenbosch University or Universiteit Stellenbosch – BA LLB, Arts, Law, 1992 – 1996
Expertise
- Member of the King III IT Governance Sub-Committee (May 2009)
Interests
New technology, open law, Web 2.0 and on-demand hosted solutions, digital or new media, scuba diving, tennis, surfing, wine, investing (especially in property).
Groups and Associations
- Attorney of the High Court of South Africa (Gauteng & Cape Provincial Divisions)
- Member of the Law Society of the Northern Provinces and the Cape of Good Hope – view his Fidelity Fund Certificate
- Founder member of the IT Lawyers Forum of South Africa
- Cybernotary with the Thawte web of trust
Speaker
Guest speaker at many conferences and events and directly to organisations
Media
Summit TV, Brainstorm, Business Day, IT Web
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