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BANKING & FINANCE
The focus of our Banking & Finance practice is on simple yet unique and effective solutions to the intricate legal issues that confront our clients.
The team’s transactional and regulatory lawyers have led the market by facilitating ground-breaking transactions in both primary and secondary markets.
With our solution-driven focus, the lawyers in our Banking & Finance practice are consistently ranked as leaders in their respective fields – not only by our clients but also by their local and international peers. Lawyers in our Banking & Finance practice are constantly recognised as leaders in their respective fields in international law firm publications such as Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business, IFLR1000: The Guide to the World’s Leading Financial Law Firms, PLC Which Lawyer, and other similar publications. We advise all the major financial institutions and banks in South Africa, including their investment banking divisions, as well as international banks and law firms. We specialise and 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, securitisations and aviation finance.
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 over the last few years; including in the consumer products, retail and financial services sectors.
In the project finance, infrastructure and public-private partnership fields, our lawyers have represented lenders and borrowers in some of the largest transactions of this type in Southern Africa. The team
PRACTICE AREA has a thorough knowledge of the regulatory framework applicable to such projects and has been closely involved with other departments within the firm in advising on various aspects of such projects, including advising on the applicable environmental and energy legislation. The industry sectors involved include mining and exploration, roads, prisons, hospitals, water, accommodation and renewable energy.
The same can be said of our syndicated and bilateral financing work, where we have advised lenders and borrowers across various industry sectors including retail, mining and exploration, financial services and telecommunications.
The team has extensive experience in the debt capital markets field and regularly advises arrangers, dealers, corporate issuers, parastatals and rating agencies on bond issues, domestic medium-term note programmes and high yield bonds, and advises local banks in respect of their European note programmes.
The team advised on the first issue by a South African insurer of callable bonds that qualified as regulatory capital for the issuer.
In the securitisation field, the team’s expertise remains unique. To date, only a small number of synthetic securitisations have been undertaken in South Africa and our Banking & Finance lawyers were actively involved in almost all of them. The team also assisted in the development of the first overnight call loan/bond fund established in South Africa and advised on the establishment of four of the six asset-backed conduits done in South Africa. We have advised arrangers, issuers and rating agencies in respect of the securitisation of storecard receivables, auto loans, mortgaged-backed residential property loans and pension-backed home loans.
Werksmans is an associate member of the Loan Market Association (LMA) based in the United Kingdom and a full member of the African Loan Market Association (ALMA).
MEET THE BANKING & FINANCE TEAM
RICHARD ROOTHMAN
DYLAN CUNARD
HAROLDJACOBS
NOZIPHOBHENGU
DEONGRIESSEL
Title: Director and practice area head Offi ce: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8115Email: [email protected]
Title: Director, Werksmans Advisory Services (Pty) LimitedOffi ce: Cape TownDirect line: +27 (0)21 405 5173Email: [email protected]
Title: DirectorOffi ce: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8182Email: [email protected]
Title: Director Offi ce: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8166Email: [email protected]
Title: Director Offi ce: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8117Email: [email protected]
ASTRIDBERMAN
Title: Director Offi ce: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8260Email: [email protected]
JONATHANBEHR
Title: Director Offi ce: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8252Email: [email protected]
ROBERTDRIMAN
Title: Director Offi ce: Cape TownDirect line: +27 (0)21 405 5134Email: [email protected]
SHAYNEKRIGE
Title: Director Offi ce: Cape TownDirect line: +27 (0)21 405 5161Email: [email protected]
LYNSEY WATSON
ELLIOTT WOOD
CHRIS MORAITIS
AARTHIRAMDHIN
NATALIESCOTT
Title: Director Offi ce: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8183Email: [email protected]
Title: Director Offi ce: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8303Email: [email protected]
Title: Director Offi ce: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8271Email: [email protected]
Title: Director Offi ce: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8247Email: [email protected]
Title: Director Offi ce: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8201Email: [email protected]
TRACY-LEEJANSE VAN RENSBURG
Title: DirectorOffi ce: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8227Email: [email protected]
HILAHLASKOV
Title: Senior AssociateOffi ce: Cape TownDirect line: +27 (0)21 405 5174Email: [email protected]
MEET THE BANKING & FINANCE TEAM CONTINUED
RENEILWE MALEKA
LAURASAMPSON
Title: Associate Office: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8454Email: [email protected]
Title: Associate Office: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8484Email: [email protected]
MOTSHIDISIMAZIBUKO
Title: Senior AssociateOffice: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8464Email: [email protected]
KAGISO MAINE
Title: Senior Associate Office: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8212Email: [email protected]
Established in the early 1900s, Werksmans Attorneys is a leading South African corporate and commercial law firm, serving multinationals, listed companies, financial institutions, entrepreneurs and government.
Operating in Gauteng and the Western Cape, the firm is connected to an extensive African legal alliance through LEX Africa.
LEX Africa was established in 1993 as the first and largest African legal alliance and offers huge potential for Werksmans’ clients seeking to do business on the continent by providing a gateway to Africa.
With a formidable track record in mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance, and commercial litigation and dispute resolution, Werksmans is distinguished by the people, clients and work that it attracts and retains.
Werksmans’ more than 200 lawyers are a powerful team of independent-minded individuals who share a common service ethos. The firm’s success is built on a solid foundation of insightful and innovative deal structuring and legal advice, a keen ability to understand business and economic imperatives and a strong focus on achieving the best legal outcome for clients.
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