Our team

Dean Joffe

Founder & Director

Education: Dean has a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) and a Master of Laws in Corporate Law (LLM) from the University of Witwatersrand. He also holds a Master of Business Administration in New Venture Creation and Entrepreneurship (MBA) from Tel Aviv University. He is currently completing his Doctor of Philosophy in Law (PhD) at the University of Witwatersrand.

About: Dean is a practicing attorney, where he specialises in commercial transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity, venture capital, banking and finance, employment and regulatory law. He has acted for clients in a variety of industries including the fast-moving consumer goods, aviation, healthcare, information technology and communication, financial institutions, and the manufacturing and industrial industry.

Founder: He is the founder of BitFund, a crypto asset portfolio management software company, and Decipher Dot Consulting, a legal, financial and operational consulting firm.

Interests: Dean holds investments in a wide range of FinTech, Web3 and aviation assets. He has raised various capital rounds for businesses he is involved with, and managed distressed assets during their turn-around strategy.

Skills: He brings his legal, commercial, operational and technology backgrounds to all the businesses he is involved in. He has an in-depth understanding of venture capital, private equity, corporate and commercial, and mergers and acquisitions.

Matters: Dean has acted for a wide variety of clients, including acting on behalf of (i) Contractor Airways Proprietary Limited in respect of its acquisition of various Boeing aircraft from Comair Limited, (ii) Bidvest Namibia Limited in the disposal of their fishing assets in Namibia, Angola, Mozambique, and South Africa, and the delisting on the Namibian Stock Exchange, (iii) Wipro Unza Limited in respect of its acquisition of Canway, (iv) JPMorgan in respect of its Interbank Information Network (INN) cross-border blockchain payment messaging system, (v) minority shareholders in Lodestone Brands Proprietary Limited in preventing the majority shareholder, Mayfair Holdings Proprietary Limited (Markus Jooste’s personal investment vehicle) from disposing of 100% of the shares in a competitive bid process, (vi) Sundale Schreiber in respect of the formation of their joint venture, and (vii) various technology and software clients in respect of their funding, financing, software and intellectual property agreements.