Douglas is one of the founding members of Phatshoane Henney Inc (now known as PH Attorneys), where he holds the position of director and Head of the Property Practice Group and heads up the Practice Group’s Cape Town office. 

He has more than 30 years of experience in various fields of law.

He started his career as a court litigator but later moved into property law where he remains to date and provides specialist services in various property-related disciplines. 

Douglas acts as a preferred service provider to large financial institutions, municipalities and parastatals, providing property-related services, including township registrations, expropriation, rezoning, consolidation, subdivision as well as the registration of various water, electrical, distribution, substation and overhead powerline servitudes for and on behalf of these institutions.

He acted as legal advisor on several government projects for provincial and national government departments, which included infrastructure development projects, land-, legal- and procurement reviews and other advisory services.

Douglas is a member of the Executive Committee of the firm and founding member and current chair of the PH Group, South Africa’s largest association of independent law firms, founded in 2006. 

Douglas believes that by providing professional, exceptional, comprehensive and solution-driven legal services to its clients across the country and abroad, positions PH Attorneys as a major player in the South African legal landscape.

Douglas enjoys listening to jazz when not spending time with his family.
 

SA'S LARGEST LEGAL NETWORK

Douglas Henney, Group Chair of the Phatshoane Henney Group

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SA'S LARGEST LEGAL NETWORK

Douglas Henney, Group Chair of the Phatshoane Henney Group

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