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White & Case LLP

Corporate/M&A

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White & Case LLP

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Corporate/M&A - South Africa

Band 3

What the Team is Known For

White & Case is a well-recognised international law firm with an established corporate presence in South Africa. The M&A department has a particularly impressive following of clients in the mining industry, with additional areas of strength including real estate, financial services and technology. It provides the full gamut of transactional corporate services, covering acquisitions and disposals, as well as corporate structuring and joint ventures.

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Work Highlights

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  • White & Case represented Harith InfraCo in its acquisition of a fund with a portfolio of stakes in infrastructure assets.

Strengths

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  • White & Case is able to manage extremely complex negotiations with multiple parties to the benefit of the company and the ultimate shareholders. We are very satisfied with the firm's work.

    Corporate/M&A respondentGlobal

  • White & Case provides insightful legal analysis and application to the specific deal. They are collaborative with clients in finding solutions and have a non-legalistic, pragmatic approach.

    Corporate/M&A respondentGlobal

  • White & Case are available and very good at handling complex situations.

    Corporate/M&A respondentGlobal

  • White & Case's team works really well together and their advice is really commercially based and precise. We get the knowledge needed from them.

    Corporate/M&A respondentGlobal

Notable Practitioners

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  • Gary Felthun
    Gary Felthun

    Gary Felthun

    Head of practice Gary Felthun has an impressively broad skill set, with experience covering structurings, share sales and acquisitions, and distressed M&A. Among his diverse client portfolio are household names in financial services and real estate, as well as notable mining entities.

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