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Ulrike Naumann

Ulrike Naumann

Global 2026

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Ranked in 2 practice areas

About

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Practice Areas

Ulrike Naumann heads Bowmans’ General Finance Practice in South Africa. She specialises in secured and syndicated lending, structured finance, preference share funding transactions and mezzanine finance as well as acquisition, property and leveraged finance. Ulrike advises on complicated debt restructuring transactions, private equity matters and high yield bonds and second bond transactions in the South African and offshore markets.

She is a committee member of the International Bar Association’s Banking Law Committee. She has BCom and LLB degrees (awarded cum laude) from the University of Stellenbosch and a Bachelor of Civil Law from the University of Oxford, UK.

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Banking & Finance - South Africa

Band 1
Band 1

Individual Editorial
Johannesburg-based Ulrike Naumann advises a number of South Africa's major banking institutions on financing and refinancing transactions. She demonstrates particular expertise in debt restructurings and syndicated loans.

Restructuring/Insolvency - South Africa

Band 4
Band 4

Individual Editorial

Ulrike Naumann acts as head of the finance practice group and has significant experience acting for financial institutions on the restructuring of distressed debt.

Strengths

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  • Ulrike Naumann brings her own wealth of experience to large matters and has a brilliant understanding of the South African market.

    Banking & FinanceChambers Global Guide
  • Ulrike understands us as clients and our working style. She knows how the markets operate and she can distil that for us.

    Banking & FinanceChambers Global Guide
  • I feel very confident and comfortable when Ulrike Naumann is involved in a matter. She is very highly regarded, senior and experienced.

    Restructuring/InsolvencyChambers Global Guide

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