About

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We have a strong record of acting on the most significant corporate and M&A transactions across the African continent. Our size and geographic spread combined with our breadth of skills, experience and good relationships with regulators enables us to handle large and time-critical transactions. 

Our services include public acquisitions, private equity transactions, joint ventures, unbundlings and other investments and divestitures including public M&A (both contested and uncontested), and private M&As. We also have considerable expertise in the fields of privatisation and public-to- private transactions and have advised shareholders in becoming more active in the management of their companies. In South Africa, we have been involved in the structuring and implementation of complex black economic empowerment transactions.

We represent participants in transactions in virtually all capacities – purchasers, sellers, financiers, financial advisers, directors and shareholders. In most cases we project manage the entire transaction which includes conducting a legal due diligence investigation, providing strategic advice, negotiating terms, drafting documentation and assisting with the implementation of the transaction from a legal point of view.

We have also served as local counsel for a range of international financial institutions and corporates, as well as international law firms and merchant banks.

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South Africa

Corporate/M&A

Ezra Davids
Ezra Davids
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Charles Douglas
2
Charles Douglas
2
Band 2
Charles Young
3
Charles Young
3
Band 3
Deepa Vallabh
5
Deepa Vallabh
5
Band 5
Lerato Thahane
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Lerato Thahane
U
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Members

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Anne McAlister

Ashleigh Hale

Charles Young

David Anderson

David Yuill

Deon de Klerk

Dirk Wessels

Ian Kirkman

Ineke Brink

James Westgate

Jonathan Schlosberg

Joshua Janks

Julie Oppenheim

Lance Fleiser

Paul Hart-Davies

Ryan Wessels

Tholinhlanhla Gcabashe

Timothy McDougall

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Ab InBev

African Rainbow Minerals

Alexander Forbes Group Holdings

Exxon Mobil

IBM

Oger Telecom

Old Mutual

Orange

Rio Tinto

The Standard Bank Group

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