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Top 25 Software licensing law firms based in South Africa

RevenueBase identified 51 software licensing law firms headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026 and tracks 343 professional contacts across them, including 178 with verified work emails and 10 with mobile numbers. Johannesburg is the largest hub.

This list covers software licensing 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 6, 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 6, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review
51Companies
343Contacts tracked
178Verified emails
10Mobile numbers
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The 25 largest software licensing law firms based in South Africa

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 51 software licensing law firms based in South Africa, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 6, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to software licensing 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 evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-5035 contacts →

“Updraft is a legal and software consultancy providing niche compliance, contract drafting and risk management solutions to many of South Africa's largest companies.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
2Indirect evidenceCity Of Tshwane, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-5028 contacts →

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

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
3Indirect evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-1018 contacts →

“Spamer Triebel was founded in Cape Town in January 2006 by Johannes Spamer and Jens Triebel.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
4Partial evidenceSouth AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-5013 contacts →

“We enable organisations to leverage data and tech (law)fully.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
5Partial evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-5012 contacts →

“Bouwers is an Intellectual Property Law Firm specialing in trade mark prosecution, maintenance and enforcement, patent prosecution, maintenance and enforcement, designs…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
6Indirect evidenceGlen Erasmia, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-5012 contacts →

“STEYN IP® is dedicated to uplift and support business owners and creatives who require specialist partners to guide and support them through their individual journeys and careers.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
7Partial evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-5011 contacts →

“Van Zyl Kruger Incorporated officially opened its doors as a Law Firm on 1 February 2016 but it is built on the foundations laid by its directors, professional staff and paralegal…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
8Indirect evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-5010 contacts →
Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
9Partial evidenceDurban, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-109 contacts →

“DHS Attorneys Inc is a proudly South African boutique law practice located in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
10Partial evidenceTzaneen, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-508 contacts →

“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: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
11Indirect evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-508 contacts →

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

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
12Partial evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-107 contacts →

“Wolmarans & Susan is an intellectual property law firm specialising in patents, trademarks, designs, anti-counterfeiting, commercial, and labour law related matters.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
13Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-107 contacts →

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

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
14Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-106 contacts →
Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
15Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-105 contacts →

“Waldeck Attorneys and Notaries is a firm of attorneys that offers their clients practical legal advice in an approachable manner and in plain language.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
16Partial evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-105 contacts →

“Cummings Attorneys is a leading law firm that caters to the diverse and complex legal needs of individuals and businesses in today's dynamic legal landscape.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
17Partial evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-505 contacts →

“Commercial and corporate law drafting, review and research, transaction project management”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
18Indirect evidencePort Elizabeth, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-104 contacts →
Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
19Partial evidenceBryanston, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-104 contacts →

“We are a legal consultancy specializing in tech law advisory services for businesses who have technology and innovation at their core to promote an ease of understanding with…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
20Partial evidencePretoria, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-103 contacts →

“Gunter Attorneys is a boutique intellectual property law firm in South Africa, established in 2011 by Rina Gunter.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
21Partial evidencePretoria, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-102 contacts →

“Specialists in commercial Law - M&A transactions, franchising, contracts, commercial litigation and labour law.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
22Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-102 contacts →

“Intellectual Property Attorneys”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
23Partial evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-501 contacts →

“One of the oldest and most respected corporate ad commercial law firms in South Africa”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
24Partial evidenceCity Of Tshwane, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-101 contacts →

“Duane Marais Attorneys is your general law and litigation specialist lawyer/attorney’s firm.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
25Partial evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-101 contacts →

“We provide trade mark, copyright, intellectual property and entertainment law services to entrepreneurs, established businesses and other attorneys (assisting their clients) in…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026

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Software licensing law firms based in South Africa at a glance

As of Sep 6, 2026
51.9%Verified-email coverage
2.9%Mobile-number coverage
6.7Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
29.4%Largest-city concentration · Johannesburg
Sep 6, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
38
11-50
12
51-200
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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 software licensing 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 “software licensing 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 software licensing 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 software licensing 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, 178 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 6, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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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 software licensing 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 software licensing law firms are there based in South Africa?

RevenueBase identified 51 software licensing 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?

Updraft, headquartered in Cape Town, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most software licensing law firms?

Johannesburg leads with 15 headquartered companies, followed by Cape Town (14) and Pretoria (5).

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 178 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 51 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 6, 2026.

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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.