Banking & Finance

Werksmans banking & finance lawyers have led the market with complex transaction types and financial instruments that are now being used across South Africa. The team advises all the major financial institutions and banks in South Africa, including their investment banking divisions. They also advise international banks and law firms relating to offshore finance transactions.

Our lawyers have extensive experience in syndicated and bilateral finance, project and limited recourse finance, leveraged and acquisition finance, structured finance, commodity and trade finance, debt capital markets transactions and securitisations. In the leveraged and acquisition finance field, our experienced transactional lawyers have advised on a vast number of private equity transactions and other public-to-private transactions in South Africa, including in the consumer products, retail and financial services sectors.

In the project finance, infrastructure and public-private-partnership fields, the team has represented lenders and borrowers in some of the largest transactions of this type in Southern Africa. The industry sectors involved include mining & exploration, roads, prisons, hospitals, water, accommodation and renewable energy.

In syndicated and bilateral financing, our banking & finance lawyers have advised lenders and borrowers across various industry sectors with a special focus on medium to large local and international transactions.