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Sandro Milo

Partner
Managing Partner (Exco), Head of the Employment department

Sandro is a partner in our litigation group, a member of our managing executive committee and heads up the South African Employment Law practice.

Sandro focuses on all aspects of commercial litigation and arbitration, employment law, pension fund law, social media law, competition law and black economic empowerment law. Sandro routinely advises South African blue-chip clients and multi-nationals conducting business in the African region on both contentious and non-contentious employment and civil litigation issues.

Sandro is also an expert in the education sector and regularly advises world-renowned tertiary institutions on the particular challenges facing this sector. He also frequently provides seminars and training to tertiary institutions, IT companies and his other clients on a wide variety of subjects.

Sandro's recent experience includes:

  • Successfully opposed an urgent application brought against our client by one of its employees who sought an order declaring an internal review hearing of the employee's disciplinary hearing and outcome was unlawful and void ab initio.
  • Successfully defending an urgent application brought by an employee of the university to interdict its recruitment process in respect of a Head of Department.
  • Represented our client in defending a CCMA unfair dismissal dispute referred against it by a former senior employee who was, pursuant to a disciplinary hearing, dismissed for having been found guilty of gross misconduct, being gender-based bullying.

He has lectured High Court Civil Procedure to candidate attorneys on behalf of LEAD (Legal Education and Development), and has published articles on his own, and in collaboration with a Judge of the Labour Court on employment related matters.

  • Recognised by The Legal 500 in the EMEA 2023 edition as one of the leading lawyers in Employment.  
  • Our Labour and Employment Department was recognized by The Legal 500 in the EMEA 2023 edition under Tier 3.

He holds the following degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand: BA, LLB and Master of Laws (cum laude) and has been in practice for over 19 years.

Sandro Milo

Partner

Managing Partner (Exco), Head of the Employment department

Sandro Milo

Partner

Managing Partner (Exco), Head of the Employment department

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