Mark Leathers

Mark Leathers is a director at Mc Naught & Co, an established South African law firm that specialises in conveyancing and property law. Admitted as an attorney, notary and conveyancer, he has spent his professional life with the firm and now helps lead it, with a practice centred on property, notarial and related commercial work. His expertise is recognised in his naming as Property Law Expert of the Year in South Africa at the Corporate INTL Global Awards 2026.

Mc Naught & Co: four decades of property law

Mc Naught & Co was established by Dave Mc Naught in 1984 and has operated for more than forty years, building a culture founded on being accessible to its clients. With offices in Durban and Sandton, the firm serves clients across two of South Africa's most important commercial centres. Its principal focus is property and conveyancing, encompassing residential and commercial property transfers, developments, mortgage bonds, subdivisions and sectional-title work. Around this core it offers commercial law services including contract drafting and company registrations, estate planning, civil litigation and arbitration, notarial services such as antenuptial contracts, and a regulatory compliance offering.

Conveyancing occupies a distinctive and vital place in South African law. Only an admitted conveyancer – an attorney who has passed a further specialist examination – may attend to the transfer of immovable property and the registration of mortgage bonds in the Deeds Registry. This makes conveyancing a specialised discipline requiring precision, reliability and a thorough command of the registration system, since errors can have serious consequences for property owners, purchasers and lenders alike. A firm that has concentrated on this work for four decades brings exactly the experience and rigour that property transactions demand.

Mark Leathers: a career built at the firm

Mark Leathers's connection with Mc Naught & Co runs deep. He began serving his articles of clerkship at the firm in 2006, was admitted as an attorney, notary and conveyancer in 2010, and became a partner in the same year. In 2019 he took on the directorship of the firm's Bluff office. His academic background includes undergraduate and master's degrees in law, with the master's specialising in private law – the branch of law that governs property, contract and related rights – providing a strong foundation for his conveyancing and notarial practice.

His areas of expertise span conveyancing, notarial services, commercial litigation, the structuring of contracts and credit-security arrangements. Notably, his practice extends beyond individual transactions: he advises multinational clients, provides guidance to local councils on property-law matters, and consults with developers of conveyancing software. This range shows a practitioner whose command of property law is applied not only to conventional transfers and bonds but also to the systems and institutions that shape how property law operates in practice.

Serving property clients in South Africa

Property is one of the most significant assets that individuals and businesses own, and the legal steps involved in buying, selling, developing or securing it are correspondingly important. For homeowners, purchasers, developers, lenders and commercial parties, having a conveyancer who is both technically expert and genuinely accessible provides real reassurance during what can be a complex and high-value process. Mc Naught & Co's long-standing emphasis on client accessibility, combined with its specialist conveyancing capability, is well suited to these needs.

With Mark Leathers among its directors, Mc Naught & Co offers South African and international clients experienced, specialist counsel across conveyancing, notarial and property-related commercial work. His recognition as Property Law Expert of the Year in South Africa at the Corporate INTL Global Awards 2026 confirms his standing in the field and the strength of a firm that has made property law its craft for more than forty years.