Jay-Ann Jacobs practices in the public and regulatory areas of law in Cliffe Dekker's Corporate and Commercial practice and provides advice to both private and public sector clients regarding their interaction with each other. She also advises state owned enterprises on a commercial level in their interaction with the private sector and also in relation to legislation that affects them. As part of Cliffe Dekker's regulatory offering, Jay-Ann is also a Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) specialist and specifically involved in advising clients (both local and international) on how to comply with the B-BBEE legislation. Her focus also includes business strategic planning and restructuring advice for all clients with regard to B-BBEE Compliance. A large portion of her practice is also in Competition Law and she assists in Mergers & Acquisitions with regard to filing notifications on behalf of merging entities to the Competition Commission.

Jay-Ann started her career as a Candidate Attorney and then Professional Assistant at the UCT Legal Aid Clinic from 1997 to 1999. Thereafter she joined Mallinicks initially as an Associate and in 2003 was appointed as a Senior Associate. In 2004 Jay-Ann joined Jeftha Twala as a Director and in 2006 Jeftha Twala joined Cliffe Dekker where Jay-Ann became a member of the board of directors at Cliffe Dekker Inc.

BA LLB, LLM and PG Dip (Environmental Law), University of Cape Town
Date of admission: 1999

• general commercial and corporate law
• corporate governance
• public, regulatory and administrative law, including liquor legislation and gambling legislation
• broad-based black economic empowerment strategic and restructuring advice for, amongst others, Dresser International (B-BBEE compliance), Communicare, Pam Golding Properties