ICTS Legaltech
Description
ICTS Legal Services (Pty) Limited has been in existence since 2018 and despite the challenges of low economic growth and Covid, it has carved a successful niche for itself in providing legal services in the rerement funds arena. It has built a presgious customer base and consistently received excellent customer feedback.
Legaltech (Pty) Limited, established with effect from March 2016, is a legal consulng firm that provides legal consulng services in the rerement fund sector. Their team has specialist employee benefits experience having operated in the industry for a significant number of years. They also focus on educang trustees and members of rerement funds on the legal, technical, corporate governance, investment, administraon and typical management of board issues surrounding their specific funds.
The businesses have decided to merge their respecve enes into one. This merger creates a stronger combined enty, adding to the already significant set of experse of each and creang a combined customer base that is not only
presgious but also very robust. It allows for considerable scale in the business to facilitate its next phase of growth, while sll specialising in its niche market, and offering highly compeve rates for expert and focused advice.
The vision for the business remains to provide legal and related services to rerement funds and their advisors in a cost effecve and expert manner. The core services provided connues to be:
• Rules draing
• Legal educaon and publicaons
• Opinions
• Contracts and SLA's
• Principal Officer services
• Fund secretarial services,
• Independent Trustee services.
The new enty is called ICTS Legaltech (Pty) Limited, and Dalene Willemse (BA, BProc, LLB) has been appointed as the Managing Director. Dalene is a pensions' lawyer with over 30 years' experience in pensions and insurance law and compliance. She serves as an independent trustee and principal officer for various funds and was contributor to publicaons such as Marx and Hanekom: The Manual on Rerement Funds and other Employee Benefits and The South African Financial Planning Handbook. She was an examiner for the University of the Free State for the Post Graduate Diploma on Employee Benefits for several years. Dalene serves on the legal and tax commiee of the Instute of Rerement Funds Africa.
For more informaon, please contact Dalene Willemse on willemsed@icts.co.za or 082 330-8176