Tax Advisers - Deloitte

South Africa
Emil Brincker
Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs
150 West Street
Sandown, Sandton, Johannesburg 2196
South Africa
Tel: (27) 11 269 7600
Fax: (27) 11 269 7899
Email: ebrincker@problemsolved.co.za
Website: www.problemsolved.co.za
Professor Emil Brincker’s experience includes the areas of corporate finance, corporate
reorganization and restructuring, export finance, funding, general banking and commercial
(including derivative) transactions, empowerment transactions, JSE Limited and
Securities Regulation Panel, project finance and tax law including income tax, value added
tax, stamp duties, PAYE, capital gains tax and other fiscal statutes.
He obtained his doctorate in 1992 on company law and his thesis related to the financial
assistance by a company in relation to share acquisitions. In 1999 he was offered a parttime
professorship from the Johannesburg University.
Emil was the first attorney to appear in the Supreme Court of Appeal in Erf 3183/1
Ladysmith v CIR, has authored and co-authored numerous books and articles, and has
advised on multi-billion-dollar structured finance transactions.
He is also a member of the Special Board for Income Tax Appeals, hearing tax matters
not exceeding R20 million ($30 million), member of the executive committee of the
South African Fiscal Association and has been involved in numerous empowerment
transactions. Emil was named by Global Counsel as the leading tax practitioner in
South Africa from 2003 to 2006, as a leading individual by International Tax Review’s
World Tax 2005 and 2006 and as an eminent individual by Legal 500 2006. The PLC
Which Lawyer Yearbook 2005 and 2006 also lists Emil as a leading individual and the
Legal Media Group’s IFLR 1000 Guide to the World’s Leading Financial Law Firms 2006
lists Emil as a key contact partner. Emil is named as the leading individual in tax in
South Africa, in Chambers Global Guide 2005 and 2006.
Emil has been a guest lecturer for the LLM (tax) at the University of Pretoria, and was
a professor to the Hdip tax at the University of Johannesburg. He is author to a
number of publications, including:
• co-author of South African Principles of International Taxation (2004);
• co-author on Edward Nathan/Grant Thornton Fiscal File publication on Business
and Personal Taxation (2004, 2005 and 2006);
• Taxation Principles of Interest and other Financing Transactions (2004 – 2006);
• Global Counsel Handbook PLC Tax Law. Country Q&A: Republic of South Africa (2003,
2004, 2005 and 2006) (Co-authored with the rest of the tax team); and
• a regular column Brinkmanship in Business Day Business Law and Tax Review.
Emil holds a BCom (cum laude), a LLB (cum laude) a LLM (cum laude), and a LLD
from the University of Stellenbosch, as well as a Higher Diploma in tax law (cum laude)
from The University of Johannesburg. He is an admitted attorney of the High Court
of South Africa.
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