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Chambers Review

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Corporate/M&A & Private Equity - Africa-wide

5
Band 5

What the Team is Known For

CMS is a solid choice for midmarket M&A deals and offers impressive experience when it comes to transactions in Africa. The firm has an extensive regional footprint, with offices in several key jurisdictions, including Kenya and South Africa. From an international perspective, partners based in London, Paris and Lisbon are well versed in handling acquisitions, divestments and related corporate structuring issues across the anglophone, francophone and lusophone regions of the continent. The team often acts for private equity clients and is consistently to be seen on energy and natural resources, financial services and technology transactions.

Notable practitioners

Key contacts include Hugo Coetzee in London, Kabelo Dlothi in Johannesburg and Alberto Galhardo Simões in Lisbon.

Work Highlights

Provided by CMS

  • CMS advised Portugal-headquartered logistics company, the Orey Group, on a major restructuring of its equity and shareholding structure, including with regard to its subsidiaries in Angola and Mozambique.

Strengths

Provided by Chambers

What we like very much about the team is its balance in applying law to commercial realities. I have dealt with several lawyers at the firm and the quality is consistent.

Corporate/M&A & Private Equity respondent
Global

The team is very responsive and knowledgeable about clients and the African market.

Corporate/M&A & Private Equity respondent
Global

CMS is excellent on cross-border work.

Corporate/M&A & Private Equity respondent
Global