Beacon supports clients in the agriculture industry with matters relating to programmes for the development and upliftment of farmers in South Africa. This support includes the reviewing, preparation and negotiation of agreements with funders of development programmes, agreements with suppliers involved in development programmes, and agreements with farmers regarding their crop production and the loan and grant funding provided to the farmers.

Beacon has a deep understanding of the market and supports energy companies by procuring services and goods, providing market related data to enable clients to make decisions, and managing large scale transformation projects.

We have advised major clients on some of the largest facilities management transactions in South Africa and the United Kingdom. Our approach focuses on objective-lead process, in terms of which we seek to ensure that the outcome of the RFP/tender process and contract negotiations are truly in line with our client’s strategic objectives.

Beacon has assisted several major FMCG companies with operations across multiple jurisdictions, from a global soft drink bottler, to a global beer company, to household brands for consumables. We understand the regulatory frameworks within which these organisations operate and the business imperatives that drive contracting, often at a very high tempo to ensure first mover advantage in extremely competitive consumer landscapes.

We provide support and services to some of South Africa’s largest banks. We have tailored our service methodology and created agile processes in this sector to meet the ever-changing and evolving needs of the banking sector.

We have extensive experience in providing legal support to multinational media houses in Europe, including the UK. This includes support on major commercial transactions, dedicated client projects as well as ongoing managed legal services, acting as an extension of a large in-house legal team in the UK. The types of transactions we have supported include the procurement of IT, marketing, creative and other services, as well as contracts for Advertising, Broadcast and Media Sponsorships, Partnerships and Celebrity Talent.

We’ve provided clients in the pharmaceuticals industry with procurement and contracting process advice which enabled our clients to centrally govern a more standardised, secure and future proofed environment, while at the same time driving material savings on the existing cost of the environment. We understand the nature of this highly regulated and competitive industry and assist our clients to manage their risks while optimising processes and saving costs.

Beacon’s advisors have a genuine depth of expertise in this sector. Our recent work includes supporting a major multinational beverage company with an Africa-wide roll-out of renewable energy power supply agreements in support of the client's strategy to ensure that 100% of its electricity requirements at its manufacturing sites across Africa come from renewable sources by 2025.

We provide support and advice to tech companies, including companies involved in the development and manufacturing of technology products and those providing technology as a service. Several of our clients have developed products in the fintech sector. Our services to clients in this sector have ranged from assisting with and managing disputes, to the reviewing, drafting and negotiation of commercial technology contracts.

Our team has provided dedicated support to major corporate clients within the leisure travel industry for many years. This has included acting for global tour operator as the legal lead on several major IT transactions across all source markets, running large-scale client due diligence projects, and providing ongoing managed services by acting as an extension of the in-house legal team in the UK. The types of commercial transactions we’ve supported cover both the retail and online elements of businesses and have involved the procurement of IT, facilities management, hotel inventory, marketing and design, and financial services (including travel insurance).

Members of the Beacon team have acted on many of the largest voice and data telecommunications deals in the UK and Africa over the last 10 years. We have acted for customers of network services, including more recently SD-WAN transformation and ongoing services, as well as major network operators in their strategic transactions with partners and suppliers. This support has included major transformation projects for key infrastructure and services, outsourcing transactions, managed services, large scale procurement of telecommunications equipment, nationwide rollout of fibre networks and purchase of business critical operating systems.