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ENSafrica’s banking and finance department differentiates itself through high levels of specialisation across the full spectrum of banking and finance work, including financial services regulation, leveraged finance, asset finance, debt finance and trade finance.
The key to the department’s success is its large number of senior practitioners who are each dedicated to, and have deep expertise in, specific areas of banking and finance. In addition, the team has competence in English law, with qualified English law practitioners at executive level, as well as practitioners who are qualified to practise French law.
The department works closely with the firm’s other market-leading departments and business areas, including tax; corporate commercial; insolvency, business rescue and debt recovery, and employment.
ENSafrica’s banking and finance department has significant experience in all areas of banking and finance, including:
- asset finance, including aircraft finance
- collective investment schemes and private instrument funds
- debt capital markets
- derivatives, swaps, repurchase transactions and securities lending
- distressed debt and workouts
- financial products and asset management
- financial services regulation
- general debt
- hybrid debt
- insurance, including export credits
- Islamic finance
- leveraged finance and private equity
- pension funds
- property finance
- securitisations
- structuring and financing black economic empowerment transactions
- structured finance
- trade and commodity finance
