We act for lenders, arrangers, borrowers, sponsors and other transactional participants.

Our services include:

  • Structuring
  • Drafting
  • Negotiating transactional agreements
  • Regulation and licensing of investment vehicles
  • Setting up financing special purpose vehicles
  • Security structures

We cover all aspects of banking, transactional finance and financial markets including:

  • General banking facilities
  • Leveraged finance
  • Preference share funding
  • Project finance
  • Trade finance
  • Aircraft finance
  • Debt capital markets
  • Equity capital markets
  • Fund formation
  • Fund management and investments

We act for lenders, developers, equity investors, BEE investors, as well as EPC and O&M participants.

We have a special focus on energy projects including gas projects, photovoltaic solar, concentrated solar power, hydro energy, wind energy, biofuel energy and coal energy.

Our people have worked on Private Public Partnership (PPP) projects at a national, provincial and municipal level. These have included roads, hospitals, water and sanitation, electricity, waste-to-energy, and accommodation.

We have also worked with the private sector in structuring deals for infrastructure for rail and road transport, development of transport logistics hubs, development of platinum, gold, coal and ferrochrome mines, development of commercial property including retail property, factories and residential property.

We assist our clients to structure and negotiate innovative, large-scale transactions using new approaches to deal structuring, including collar backed transactions.

We act for private and public companies, banks, funds investment houses and other financiers and our people have been involved in large, intermediate and small mergers across different sectors including mining, industrial, retail, and financial services.

Our services include facilitating the sale of shares, sale of assets, share repurchases, internal restructurings and authoring or evaluating due diligence reports.

We understand the value of a properly executed due diligence exercise and a concise and accurate due diligence report as a pivotal step towards any sound investment decision.

Recent transactions include restructuring and listing a multinational retail company and advising lenders on a block trade of listed shares valued at ZAR5billion, and use of disposal proceeds to unwind the seller’s debt facilities.

Our experience in this area includes rights issues, joint ventures, joint development agreements, consortium agreements, corporate structuring, share schemes, corporate guarantees, relationship agreements, legal opinions.

Recent transactions include negotiating the rights of a significant shareholder in a multimillion Rand rights offer by a JSE listed entity.

We focus on township development, rezoning, subdivision, servitudes and real rights registrations, opening sectional title registers and establishing home owner’s association, property audits and evaluation, bond registration, property transfer.

Recent transactions include advising on large scale residential housing development projects as well as registration of large notarial and mortgage bonds as part of financing security package for lending transactions.

We act for large and junior mining houses, businesses and government.

We have worked with clients on mergers and acquisitions, technical mining agreements, mining due diligences, mining title reports, black economic empowerment and mining royalties.

Environmental law is complex and constantly evolving. We understand the nuances of it.

We’ll help you navigate the relevant acts like the National Environmental Management Act, 1998; the National Water Act, 1998; the Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013; and the National Heritage Resources Act, 1993.