We are a corporate law firm based in Pretoria. Our firm was established in January 2020 by Mr. Keith Setaka. He has over 15 of years legal experience and is an admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa. Over the years, Mr. Setaka has worked for the South African Financial Regulator, a major multinational legal firm and one of the major banks in South Africa. Our services are well established in areas of pension, trust and deceased estates law. Our specialized legal knowledge, skills and experience enables us to continuously provide our clients with excellent services and innovative legal solutions.
About us
"The law is reason, free from passion."
Aristotle
Our Founding Director
Keith Setaka
Mr Setaka has over 15 years of legal financial regulatory, fiduciary and retail banking experience. Mr Setaka also served as a trustee on various pension funds and is a member of the Pension Lawyers Association.
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Mr Setaka joined the Financial Sector Conduct Authority as a junior analyst in the Licensing and Registration Department and ultimately was appointed as a specialist analyst in the Pensions Supervision department. His duties entailed registration of pension fund rules.
In addition to the above he ensured that applications complied with section 13B of the Pension Funds Act before presenting them to the Licensing Committee, which included independent professionals who advised the Registrar on the said applications.
In his role as a Specialist Analyst his duties involved conducting compliance visits on pension funds and benefit administrators. He had to verify whether the funds complied with the Pension Funds Act, Pf circulars and directives issued by the Registrar of Pension Funds. His primary focus was on the governance of the funds, system administration, actuarial valuations, solvency and liquidity of such funds.
With regards to benefit administrators, his compliance reports covered an audit of the workforce skills, system analysis, reviewing the administration agreements between the benefit administrator and pension funds.
In legal practice at Hogan Lovells, Mr Setaka
● drafted pension fund rules, service level agreements between funds and pension fund administrators;
● dealt with High Court litigation matters;
● conducted legal research, drafted legal opinions and trained pension fund trustees on the Pension Fund Act, Board Notices and PF Circulars issued by the Registrar of Pensions Funds.
At Absa Bank Mr Setaka conducted legal research, offered legal advice, drafted legal agreements and opinions. Mr Setaka also held regular consultations with various business committees, business executives and external counsel. His focus was on wealth banking, wills, trusts, administration of deceased estates and pension funds.