Tiaan Olwagen
BA LLB
Tiaan has held various positions since being admitted as an attorney in February 1999. He gained extensive experience in global transactional work in the telecommunications industry, having been a deal lead for one of the major global telecommunications providers, a UK headquartered company. Tiaan has been involved in and has led on some of the largest telecommunications network services’ outsourcing transactions, on a global basis. Apart from his 15 plus years spent in the Telecommunications industry, Tiaan has been an in-house legal advisor for a German Magnet Manufacturer, an IT Investment Group, and the CSIR (where he mainly supported the protection and commercialisation of intellectual property for its defence -, built -, laser – , and open-source technology divisions).
Since he started consulting independently in 2023, Tiaan has assisted a variety of clients, including a Renewable Energy business with a major UK funder, an Engineering firm specializing in the design and build of equipment in the mining industry, and a large Business Process Outsourcing organisation with affiliates in the UK and Australia (headquartered in South Africa).
Tiaan combines commercial legal advice with broad experience in business to ensure his legal advice is both sound and relevant.