Banking and finance
“The practice has an excellent reputation for its knowledge of the banking sector and handles a variety of transactional and regulatory issues for clients in this area.”
Chambers Global, 2012
Our South African banking and finance team maintains a leading reputation within the market for local, pan-African and global advice on the most complex and cutting-edge financial transactions. Our team of financial institutions lawyers provides an unrivalled service across the entire African continent, playing a role in the region’s most high-profile banking law transactions.
We offer broad expertise to a range of clients from our key industry sectors: financial institutions; energy; infrastructure, mining and commodities; transport; technology and innovation; and pharmaceuticals and life sciences. With strong finance capabilities in Europe, Asia, Australia, Canada, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Central Asia, our team of South African banking lawyers are supported by an unparalleled network and are sought after for both cross-border and domestic work.
Our areas of work include:
- acquisition finance
- aircraft finance
- asset finance
- banking regulation
- credit law
- cross-border finance
- debt capital markets
- debt factoring
- derivatives and OTC trading
- export credit finance
- exchange control
- financial services
- funds
- high yield debt
- Islamic finance
- lending and syndicated lending
- leveraged finance
- mining and resource finance
- preference shares
- project finance, infrastructure finance and public private partnerships
- property finance
- restructuring and insolvency
- securitisations
- structured finance
- structured products
- trade and commodity finance
Our recent work:
- Advising Nedbank Limited on the ZAR3.8 billion financing of the corporotisation of the Scaw Metals division of Anglo American
- Advising Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality on amendment and restatement of their ZAR13 billion Domestic Medium Term Note Programme
- Advising Rand Merchant Bank on the ZAR1.3 billion financing of the acquisition of Global Forest Products (Pty) Ltd by York Timbers
- Advising The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited on the ZAR3 billion capital raising and capital and debt restructuring of Metorex Limited
- Advising Clindeb Investments (Proprietary) Limited on the issue of ZAR400 million Senior Unsecured Zero Coupon Notes
- Advising Savcio Holdings (Proprietary) Limited on the establishment of its Savcio Holdings (Proprietary) Limited ZAR2 billion Domestic Medium Term Note Programme
- Representing the lenders in relation to the financing of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project
- Representing the lenders to two major toll road projects
- Representing the lenders in the first major BOT project finance transactions in South Africa
- Representing the lenders in one of the first prison projections in South Africa
- Representing the consortium and lenders in the first hospital project in South Africa
- Advising in regard to several toll road projects, an accommodation project, and the Gautrain rapid rail link project
Awards and accolades:
- African deals of the year: Equities 2012 (Zambeef Products Plc listing), The Banker
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