Erick graduated at the University of Stellenbosch with B.A. Law and L.L.B. degrees and was admitted as an attorney in 1991.

He specializes in the fields of commercial litigation, credit insurance and credit management.

Erick has also created an online credit vetting and credit management system known as Credit Risk. The Credit Risk system empowers trade creditors to perform their own credit vetting through the various tools offered by the system. Credit Risk also offers trade creditors a highly professional and effective platform to recover their outstanding debts on a pre-legal “no recovery, no charge basis”.