EPCM Consultants staves off liquidation with last minute settlement

Former attorneys Van Greunen and Associates eventually gets its money

- By Bongani Mdakane

EPCM Consultants has escaped liquidation by the skin of its teeth.

Its former lawyers, Van Greunen and Associates (VGA), had filed the motion for liquidation in the Johannesburg High Court to recover unpaid debt but at the eleventh hour, on Thursday, the parties settled.

In the papers Sunday World has seen, VGA claimed that the company, a subsidiary of multinational EPCM Holdings, had not paid for services rendered.

Last week, Sunday World reported that directors of sister company EPCM Bonisana, a BEE wing of the same multinational, are embroiled in an all-out battle after its fronting scheme collapsed.

Ebrahim Patel and Nicole Patel allege that they were used only as black fronts to help the firm score BEE tenders, and want to remove two of their white co-directors for denying them access to business documents they need to value the shares they want to offload.

Today, we can reveal that

VGA, a Pretoria-based law firm, filed a motion in the Johannesburg High Court demanding EPCM Consultants be liquidated for failing to honour a bill of more than R148000 since 2023.