Eloise Cilliers
Senior Associate - Corporate Disputes
How I work (so you know what to expect)
(so you know what happens next)
- Commercial realism under pressure: You'll get a clear view of what is urgent, what can wait, and what the legal route needs to support commercially.
- Structured and responsive: We scope properly, prioritise early, and keep the matter moving when drift would make things worse.
- Recovery-focused thinking: The aim is not only to "fight the dispute", but to preserve options, protect value and support the right business outcome.
- No desk-to-desk drift: If immediate action is needed, we treat it that way.
If you're unsure where the real pressure sits, describe what's happening in one paragraph - I'll tell you the best first move.
What I help clients get right
- Business rescue, restructuring and insolvency disputes where control, value and continuity are under pressure
- Turnaround and recovery strategy when legal conflict starts affecting the wider business position
- Urgent intervention where delay will damage assets, leverage, funding or commercial stability
- Stakeholder conflict involving creditors, practitioners, directors and counterparties
- Fraud, misrepresentation and asset recovery where dishonesty is worsening the pressure on the business
- Strategic dispute resolution where negotiation, ADR or litigation needs to support the wider commercial objective
Insights from Koos and the Corporate Disputes team
Credentials
- Practice Lead - Corporate Disputes at Barnard
- Focus: business rescue, insolvency, turnaround, liquidation and related dispute strategy
- Works closely with Barnard's wider litigation and corporate teams where governance, funding and commercial pressure overlap
