Andisa Nqwaba

Andisa Nqwaba is a seasoned legal practitioner with 17 years’ experience in the legal fraternity.  He is an LLB graduate from the then University of Durban-Westville, now University of KwaZulu Natal. Andisa served his articles at Kohler Incorporated and was admitted in November 2003. His dedication and passion to his clients saw him appointed as a professional assistant, a position he held until December 2004.  He then joined Hajra Patel Incorporated as an associate and in the process becoming head of litigation until November 2012 when he joined the Group Regulatory Compliance department at Transnet. Then in 2014 he moved to Denel Dynamics, a division of Denel SOC Ltd as a Regulatory Compliance Manager and was tasked to establish the regulatory compliance department. He later moved to the head office of Denel to head up the Group Legal office.  

His experience spans in most segments of the legal space.  While in practice, he dealt with and handled matters involving corporate law, corporate governance, litigation, labour and employment issues, third party claims, commercial contracts and family law.  He then moved to corporate space, where he started at the legal compliance field dealing with regulatory compliance issues and providing legislation interpretation and analysis. Later, he moved to the legal advisory role.  It is in this role that he got more exposure corporate law, public administration law, procurement law, corporate governance and defense law. 

 Andisa has a LLM in Commercial Law as well as a Post-Graduate Diploma in Regulatory Compliance Management. He is an Affiliate Member of the Chartered Governance Institute of Southern Africa and a member of the Compliance Institute of Southern Africa.