Corporate/M&A

About

Provided by CMS South Africa

The Corporate/M&A and Commercial team is led by senior lawyers, Yushanta Rungasammy & Kabelo Dlothi.

The team of more than 10 lawyers advises on M&A, private equity, equity capital markets, joint ventures and corporate advisory issues for multinationals, local market participants, large corporations & SMEs in a variety of sectors. It is a diverse, robust team adept at handling a wide range of corporate transactions across industries including mining, retail, telecoms, media & tech in addition to further strengths in the food and drink, financial services & energy sectors. Alongside its main activity in acquisitions & disposals, the team leverages its experience to act on fund formations &black economic empowerment (BEE) transactions.

The team offers a wide variety of services:

• BEE
• Business trusts
• Debt & Equity Capital Markets
• Due diligence investigations
• Corporate governance
• Corporate restructuring
• Establishment of business entities
• General corporate & commercial issues
• Investment funds
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Private Equity
• Take-overs
• Transaction structuring

Some recent work highlights include:

• African Parks as the lead legal advisors on their rewilding project in which 2,000 semi-wild rhinos owned by South African rhino breeder John Hume will be “rewilded” into reserves across South Africa and other parts of the continent over the next 10 years.
• Exxaro Resources Limited on the disposal of two non-core coal assets as part of its strategy to address climate change.