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Top 25 International trade law firms based in South Africa

RevenueBase identified 113 international trade law firms headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026 and tracks 1,436 professional contacts across them, including 520 with verified work emails. Johannesburg is the largest hub.

This list covers international trade law firms headquartered in South Africa, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 28, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 28, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review
113Companies
1,436Contacts tracked
520Verified emails
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The 25 largest international trade law firms based in South Africa

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 113 international trade law firms based in South Africa, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 28, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to international trade law firms: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Partial evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 28, 2026201-500528 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Established in the early 1900s, Werksmans Attorneys is a leading South African corporate and commercial law firm serving multinationals, listed companies, financial institutions…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
2Indirect evidenceCity Of Tshwane, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 28, 202651-20068 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Weavind & Weavind is a niche firm of attorneys whose directors are all specialists in their different fields of practice.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
3Partial evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 28, 202651-20052 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Bisset Boehmke McBlain is a full-service law firm which has been providing clients with exceptional legal services for more than 150 years.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
4Partial evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5043 contacts →

Partial evidence

“BEE Law Firm and Advisory Service based in Gallo Manor”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
5Partial evidencePretoria, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5034 contacts →

Partial evidence

“JJR Incorporated is a one of the leading niche corporate and commercial law firms established in Pretoria, Gauteng.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
6Indirect evidenceCity Of Tshwane, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5028 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Founded in 1951, Hahn & Hahn Attorneys prides itself in solving its clients’ legal problems efficiently, effectively with expertise and specialised solutions.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
7Strong evidenceParow, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5021 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Heyns and Partners is a multi-faceted law firm based in the Western and Eastern Cape and serving individuals, businesses and organisations locally and internationally.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
8Indirect evidencePretoria, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5018 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Throughout our Firm’s history, Mketsu and Associates have made excellence the foundation of our firm.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
9Partial evidenceSandton, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5016 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Mkhabela Huntley Attorneys Inc is a leading commercial and regulatory law firm based in South Africa”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
10Indirect evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5016 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Established in 1920 by Raphael Asherson who was joined by his brothers Benjamin and Donald soon afterwards, Ashersons has become well known as a general practice offering its…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
11Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5011 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
12Partial evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 28, 20261-1010 contacts →

Partial evidence

“At Simplex Law, we offer a comprehensive range of legal services tailored to meet the diverse needs of businesses operating in today’s complex and competitive landscape.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
13Partial evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-509 contacts →

Partial evidence

“APA Africa is a full service law firm that offers a broad and comprehensive range of legal services and solutions that are tailored to meet your needs.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
14Indirect evidenceSandton, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-509 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Strategically headquartered in Sandton, the commercial heart of South Africa, TWB delivers sophisticated, multilingual legal capability with strong proficiency in cross-border…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
15Partial evidenceTzaneen, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-508 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Joubert and May is a leading law firm of the northern provinces in South Africa founded by Danie Joubert and Frank May in 1929.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
16Partial evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-508 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Established in Fullard Mayer Morrison Incorporated is a Corporate and Commercial law firm in Johannesburg offering incisive thinking combined with intuition and experience.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
17Strong evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 28, 20261-108 contacts →

Strong evidence

“XA is South Africa's only full service international trade consulting firm focusing on both trade policy matters as well as customs and excise matters.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
18Indirect evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-508 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Commercial Litigation & Criminal Defense Attorneys for any Tribunal or Court.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
19Strong evidencePretoria, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-508 contacts →

Strong evidence

“SGA Law Africa is a South African-based corporate commercial and international business law firm.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
20Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 28, 20261-108 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Our Story Simply put, at Richters we are specialist corporate, business and insolvency lawyers, committed to our clients’ success Richters is a specialist South African corporate…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
21Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 28, 20261-108 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Christodoulou & Mavrikis Inc.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
22Indirect evidenceDurbanville, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-508 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“VanderMerwe & Robertson Incorporated prides itself on providing excellent and professional legal services to a diverse and growing client base.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
23Partial evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 28, 20261-107 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Administrative, constitutional and labour law”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
24Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 28, 20261-107 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Messina Inc was founded in 2007, by Carlo Messina, with a view and focus to provide specialist commercial legal services.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
25Partial evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 28, 20261-105 contacts →

Partial evidence

“A well established law firm headed by Sandesh Singh, a specialist labour and corporate commercial law attorney.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026

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International trade law firms based in South Africa at a glance

As of Sep 28, 2026
36.2%Verified-email coverage
12.7Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
30.1%Largest-city concentration · Johannesburg
Sep 28, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
74
11-50
32
51-200
6
201-500
1

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for South Africa, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for South Africa, over 113 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among international trade law firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in South Africa whose own description of what they do matches “international trade law firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names international trade law firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude
Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among international trade law firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside South Africa are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality
In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking
Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification
Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 520 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh
This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 28, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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International trade law firms by metro

Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names international trade law firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many international trade law firms are there based in South Africa?

RevenueBase identified 113 international trade law firms headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Werksmans Attorneys, headquartered in Johannesburg, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most international trade law firms?

Johannesburg leads with 34 headquartered companies, followed by Cape Town (13) and Pretoria (11).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 520 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 113 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 28, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.