Freddie Terblanche

Position: Director

Email: [email protected]

Mobile: 076 018 7214

Location: Cape Town, South Africa

Freddie Terblanche is an experienced litigation attorney with over 15 years’ expertise in commercial litigation and arbitration.

He has represented multinational corporations, listed companies, blue-chip clients, high-net-worth individuals, and family trusts in a broad range of complex and high-value disputes.

Freddie’s career includes roles at top-tier law firms both locally and internationally, including Eversheds LLP (Cardiff, Wales), Eversheds South Africa (Johannesburg), and Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr Inc (Cape Town). He has acted for a wide array of clients — including major banks, insurers, shipping companies, and clients in the construction, engineering, property, financial services, international trade, technology, and energy sectors.

Recognised for his strategic judgment, meticulous preparation, and tenacious litigation style, Freddie delivers solution-driven legal expertise with a clear focus on achieving commercially sound outcomes.

TESTIMONIALS

Freddie Terblanche has proven himself to be an astute litigator and has been described by clients, colleagues and advocates as “excellent”, “amazing”, “aggressive”, “meticulous”, “efficient”, “an extremely hard worker”, “honest”, “a legal technician of note” and possessing “extraordinary business acumen”.

Noteworthy matters

Some of the noteworthy matters Freddie handled include the following:

  • Represented renewable energy companies in litigation involving various high-value renewable energy projects.
  • Acted for property developers in disputes involving claims of more than R 150 million.
  • Handled various tender review applications relating to tenders exceeding R 500 million.
  • Acted for various banks in complex defended litigation. 
  • Acted for a bank in opposing an application by the City of Johannesburg to demolish renovations of more than R 80 million.
  • Acted for an employee in a restraint of trade application brought by a well-known online gambling company. 
  • Acted for a foreign investor in removing a delinquent director and setting aside a share transaction under s 163 of the Companies Act.
  • Acted for a property developer in a R 54 million damages claim against a financial institution.
  • Acted for a global supplier of irrigation systems in defending a R42 million damages claim by a plaintiff in the horticulture industry.
  • Acted for a prominent medical scheme administrator in complex defended litigation. 
  • Acted for various medical schemes in complex defended litigation. 
  • Represented various property developers and building contractors in defending spoliation applications involving multi-million-rand property development projects.
  • Acted for the developers and owners of various high-value luxury residential properties in disputes with engineers, contractors and sub-contractors. 
  • Represented a global shipping company in defending a claim by liquidators to set aside a voidable disposition under section 341(2) of the Companies Act 1973.
  • Advised various investors in defending multi-million-rand claims brought by the liquidators of Mirror Trade Investments (MTI), which operated the biggest Ponzi scheme in South African recorded history.
  • Acted against a national cellular service provider following a fraud perpetrated on a client.