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Tyron Fourie

Managing Partner
Managing Partner (Exco)

Tyron is a partner in the TMT department at the Melrose Arch office. He acts for a range of clients including those in the IT, telecoms, consumer, banking and insurance sectors.

His expertise includes local and cross border acquisitions, corporate restructuring,  black economic empowerment transactions, lending and finance arrangements, competition authority filings and approvals, franchising, outsourcing and offshoring, the drafting, vetting and negotiation of all types of agreements associated with the technology sector specifically large IT projects, IT dispute resolution and public-sector procurement, appeals and compliance.

Tyron's experience includes:

  • Advised and negotiated a multi-year, multi-million rand IT outsourcing agreement with one of the largest banks in South Africa. The successful implementation of this agreement lead to subsequent outsourcing agreements between our client and the bank, for which we were appointed to lead the negotiations.
  • Appointed by a multinational pay television company to draft and negotiate agreements with its service provider to upgrade their digital television billing platform. Our role was that of lead legal advisors and included all drafting of various IT project related agreements, negotiations with various IT vendors and negotiating new licencing agreements.
  • Represented a leading bank for the procurement of services to provide an on-line, real time service for the processing of ATM transactions including the supply, maintenance, and operation of ATMs.

Tyron is part of the team that was awarded TMT Team of the year by the African Legal Awards in 2022.

He was also nominated and recognized in the Acritas Stars Survey in 2017, 2018 and 2019 as a stand-out lawyer by clients that were independently surveyed and now features in the Acritas Stars database.

Tyron has a Bachelor of Laws degree obtained from the University of Johannesburg.

Tyron Fourie

Managing Partner

Managing Partner (Exco)

Tyron Fourie

Managing Partner

Managing Partner (Exco)

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