About Natasha Jansen
Natasha Jansen is an admitted attorney with 10 years’ post qualification experience. She has qualified with a Bcom (Law) Degree and an LLB Degree. Throughout her career, she has gained a balance of legal experience, both in the legal industry at reputable law firms, and in the corporate sector as a legal consultant and an in-house legal counsel.
She articled at TKI Scott attorneys, where she gained experience in commercial law, with specific focus on commercial drafting. She then practiced at Routledge Modise Attorneys in Sandton (now practicing as Hogan Lovells) for four and a half years in the commercial law department and later in the commercial litigation department, where she ran many high profile commercial litigation and arbitration matters. She then became a Senior Manager of the Corporate Commercial Team at Deloitte Legal, and gained experience in a variety of commercial and corporate transactions.
In 2013, Natasha started working at JSE Listed Company, Life Healthcare Group, as a Senior Legal Counsel. She was later promoted to Deputy-Head of the Legal Department. At Life Healthcare, she gained extensive in-house commercial and corporate experience, forming part of a small team of specialised in-house legal counsel that provide commercial and corporate legal services to the whole Group. Natasha managed the Group’s Data Privacy (POPI) implementation project, ran many of the Group’s South African acquisitions, corporate restructuring transactions and property acquisitions, worked closely with the Finance Department on many of its Group finance transactions and assisted with the Group’s general day-to day legal and contractual needs.
Natasha established Jansenn Attorneys in May 2017.
Accolades and Awards
Natasha was awarded the “Philip Friedland Prize” by the Law Society of the Northern Provinces as the most successful candidate in the attorneys board exams for 2007, achieving the highest overall exam results.
While at Life Healthcare, the legal team was shortlisted as finalists for the Legal Department of the Year – Small Team Category, in the African Legal Awards for 2013 and 2014 and were the winners of the award in 2015. The team was also listed in the Legal 500 – GC Power list: Africa Teams for 2016.
