Riaan Booysen
Johannesburg Bar Admission Date: 5 December 2005
- B.Com (Law), University of Pretoria (1996)
- LLB, University of Pretoria (1998)
- Certificate in International Mergers & Acquisition Law, University of Pretoria (2001)
- Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Program
Level II, CFA Institute, Charlottesville,
Virginia USA (2002) - Dip.I.C.Arb F.C.I.Arb – Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration, Chartered Institute
of Arbitrators (2013) - Primavera ‘Project Planning and Control’ Software Training, Enterprise Project Solutions (2013)
- CD/ACDS Accredited Mediator, University
of Stellenbosch Business School (2014) - CEDR Mediation Accreditation, Centre for
Effective Dispute Resolution, UK (2015) - Advanced Mediation Workshop: Mediating
Complex Disputes, Harvard Law School (2016)
- Adjudication
- Arbitrations
- Administrative
- Banking & Finance
- Building, Construction & Infrastructure
- Civil Litigation
- Commercial
- Competition
- Corporate
- Governance
- Constitutional
- Contract
- Labour
- Mediation
- Insolvency
- Insurance
- Medical Schemes
- Pension Funds
- Petroleum Act
- Procurement
- Public Law
- Chartered Arbitrator & Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK) (C.Arb & FCArb)
- Member of the General & Commercial Panel of the Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa (AFSA)
- Fellow of the Association of Arbitrators (Southern Africa)
- Accredited Mediator – Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CDER) (UK)
- Accredited Mediator – Conflict Dynamics (CD) (South Africa) and the Africa Centre for Dispute Management.
Biography
Riaan Booysen is an experienced commercial advocate and practices administrative, procurement, insolvency, business rescue, company law, mediation, and labour-related matters. He is a member of the Johannesburg Society of Advocates and the Protea Group of Advocates in Sandton.
He has over twenty-three years of legal and commercial experience with a solid track record of adding value to his clients, the broader legal profession and society. He was admitted as an attorney and notary public in 1999.
Riaan specialises in construction, engineering, infrastructure and project adjudication and arbitrations, and litigation in the financial services industry (banking, investments and insurance). In addition, he is skilled in financial calculations and valuations related to these fields.
He is a Chartered Arbitrator and fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a Fellow of the Association of Arbitrators (Southern Africa), and a member of the General Commercial Panel of the Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa. Riaan is accredited as mediator by the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CDER) (UK), Conflict Dynamics (South Africa) and the Africa Centre for Dispute Management.
Riaan’s qualifications include a BCom (Law) and LLB from the University of Pretoria and a Certificate in Merger and Acquisition Law and Regulation from the same institution. He further completed Level II of the Chartered Financial Analyst Program at the CFA Institute in the USA. In addition, he holds a Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration from the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in the UK. Riaan worked as a banking sector legal expert before joining the Johannesburg Bar in 2005.
He is also the Chair for Ciarb’s South African Branch and approved Ciarb faculty member for Arbitration and Mediation.
Riaan is an acting Judge for the High Court of South Africa, South Gauteng High Court, Johannesburg. His judgments include:
- Theodosiou v Schindlers Attorneys (14038/2021) [2022] ZAGPJHC 252 (21 April 2022) reported at 2022 (4) SA 617 (GJ), dealing with the Contingency Fees Act, Act 66 of 1997 and rescission of judgment.
http://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAGPJHC/2022/252.html - Vodacom Group Limited v Congolese Wireless Network SARL (30053/2020) [2021] ZAGPJHC 793 (7 December 2021) dealing with challenges to Arbitral Awards in terms of Sections 32 & 33 of the Arbitration Act, Act 42 of 1965 and whether an Arbitrator can order cost de bonis proporiis against an attorney not a party to the arbitration agreement.
http://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAGPJHC/2021/793.html - Shivambu v FR Pandelani Inc (30053/2020) [2021] ZAGPJHC 745 (19 November 2021) dealing with the Legal Practice Act 28 of 2014.
https://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAGPJHC/2021/745.html