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The market leading team of Corporate/M&A lawyers at Werksmans is the driving force behind the firm’s impressive credentials as one of the powerhouses in South African commercial law.
Our Corporate/M&A team has extensive experience combining exceptional transactional skills with specialist expertise - honed over decades of corporate and commercial experience in both public and private corporate mergers, as well as in private equity and international cross border transactions.
The team works closely with our experts in related fields such as taxation and competition law and also deals with the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), Takeover Regulation Panel and The South African Reserve Bank.
Our lawyers act for clients in a variety of sectors - including mining, retail, telecommunications, banking and insurance.
Our team has accordingly represented numerous South African and international clients engaged in takeovers, reverse takeovers, corporate mergers, acquisitions, restructuring, hostile bids, privatisations and empowerment transactions.
General corporate matters, including corporate finance and securities laws also feature prominently in our practice, where our team also advises on new listings/flotations, de-listings and issues of shares.
MARKETPLACE RECOGNITION
Our leadership in the Corporate/M&A practice area has been recognised by a diversity of respected national and international ranking organisations and research institutions.
Werksmans has consistently been at or near the top of the rankings once they commenced.
These include:
> Chambers Global: the World’s Leading Lawyers for Business - Werksmans is ranked in band 1 in Corporate/M&A.
> IFLR1000: the guide to the World’s Leading Financial Law Firms - Werksmans is ranked in tier 2 for Corporate/M&A (2018).
> Legal 500 - Werksmans is ranked tier 1 in Corporate/M&A.
> DealMakers - Werksmans has consistently been recognised as amongst the leading legal advisers for its M&A and General Corporate Finance work.
> DealMakers - Werksmans Attorneys, ranked 5th place, is recognised as amongst the leading legal advisors for listed companies in M&A by deal flow (2016).
> DealMakers - Werksmans Attorneys, ranked in 4th place, is recognised as amongst the leading legal advisors for unlisted companies in M&A by deal flow (2016).
> DealMakers - Werksmans Attorneys, ranked 5th place, is recognised as amongst the leading legal advisors for listed companies in M&A by deal value (2016).
> DealMakers - Werksmans Attorneys, ranked 4th place, is recognised as amongst the leading legal advisors for unlisted companies in M&A by deal value (2016).
> DealMakers - Werksmans Attorneys, ranked 41st place, is ranked as legal advisors for M&A activity by value for work on the African continent, i.e. where one of the parties or the asset is based in an African country outside of SA (2016).
CORPORATE MERGERS & ACQUISITIONSPRACTICE AREA
MEET THE CORPORATE MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS TEAM
GERHARD JOHANNES
Title: DirectorOffice: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8107Email: [email protected]
DANNYANDROPOULOSTitle: Director Office: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8248Email: [email protected]
NOZIPHO BHENGU
Title: DirectorOffice: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8166Email: [email protected]
JANNIE DE VILLIERS
Title: DirectorOffice: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8193Email: [email protected]
ZE’EV BLIEDEN
Title: DirectorOffice: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8471Email: [email protected]
ROBERTDRIMAN
Title: Director Office: Cape TownDirect line: +27 (0)21 405 5134Email: [email protected]
DAVID GEWER
Title: Director Office: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8142Email: [email protected]
SHIRLEY FODOR
Title: DirectorOffice: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8316Email: [email protected]
IRMA-DALENE GOUWS
Title: DirectorOffice: Cape TownDirect line: +27 (0)21 405 5121Email: [email protected]
DEONGRIESSEL
Title: Director Office: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8117Email: [email protected]
SHAYNE KRIGE
Title: Director and practice area headOffice: Cape TownDirect line: +27 (0)21 405 5161Email: [email protected]
PIERRE LE ROUX
Title: DirectorOffice: Cape TownDirect line: +27 (0)21 809 6148Email: [email protected]
STEPHAN LOCHNERTitle: DirectorOffice: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8345Email: [email protected]
HAPPYMASONDO
Title: Director and practice area headOffice: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8264Email: [email protected]
JANENEMEIRINGTitle: DirectorOffice: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8251Email: [email protected]
LURESHAN NAIDOO
Title: DirectorOffice: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8449Email: [email protected]
MEET THE CORPORATE MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS TEAM CONTINUED
JARED NICKIG
Title: DirectorOffice: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8293Email: [email protected]
WILLIE OOSTHUIZEN
Title: Director Office: Cape TownDirect line: +27 (0)21 405 5105Email: [email protected]
TARYN POTTER
Title: Director Office: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8221Email: [email protected]
ADAM PYZIKOWSKI
Title: Director Office: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8253Email: [email protected]
BRIAN PRICE
Title: Director Office: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8479Email: [email protected]
SEROSHAN PADAYACHY
Title: DirectorOffice: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8284Email: [email protected]
AARTHIRAMDHIN
Title: Director Office: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8247Email: [email protected]
CHRIS STEVENS
Title: DirectorOffice: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8467Email: [email protected]
PIETER STEYN
Title: DirectorOffice: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8296Email: [email protected]
PAUL TINDLE
Title: Director Office: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8311Email: [email protected]
KEVIN TRUDGEON
Title: Director Office: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8169 Email: [email protected]
HERMAN VAN NIEKERKTitle: DirectorOffice: Tyger ValleyDirect line: +27 (0)21 910 9030Email: [email protected]
DAVE WALKERTitle: DirectorOffice: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8207Email: [email protected]
ELLIOTT WOOD
Title: DirectorOffice: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8303Email: [email protected]
DEREK ALEXANDER
Title: Senior AssociateOffice: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8485Email: [email protected]
NJABULO HLOPHE
Title: Senior AssociateOffice: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8498Email: [email protected]
MEET THE CORPORATE MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS TEAM CONTINUED
HILAH LASKOV
Title: Senior AssociateOffice: Cape TownDirect line: +27 (0)21 405 5174Email: [email protected]
KHATHU NELUHENI
Title: Senior AssociateOffice: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8361Email: [email protected]
BRONWYNPARKER
Title: Senior AssociateOffice: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8273Email: [email protected]
LIAM HEINZELMANN
Title: AssociateOffice: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8151Email: [email protected]
BOITUMELO MOTI
Title: AssociateOffice: Cape TownDirect line: +27 (0)21 910 9029Email: [email protected]
BAFANA NTULI
Title: AssociateOffice: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8129Email: [email protected]
LAURA SIMPSON
Title: AssociateOffice: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8484Email: [email protected]
MICHAELA TYFIELD
Title: AssociateOffice: Cape TownDirect line: +27 (0)21 405 5238Email: [email protected]
SU-ANNE VAN DER MERWE
Title: AssociateOffice: Cape TownDirect line: +27 (0)21 405 5126Email: [email protected]
ANTIMO OSATO
Title: AssociateOffice: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8327Email: [email protected]
NOMSA HLANGULELA
Title: AssociateOffice: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8154Email: [email protected]
IIZLE CILLIE
Title: AssociateOffice: Cape TownDirect line: +27 (0)21 405 5125Email: [email protected]
JARRYD MARDON
Title: AssociateOffice: TygervalleyDirect line: +27 (0)21 910 9061Email: [email protected]
ARMAND SWART
Title: AssociateOffice: Cape TownDirect line: +27 (0) 21 405 5162Email: [email protected]
KIM WILLIAMS
Title: AssociateOffice: Cape TownDirect line: +27 (0)21 910 9011Email: [email protected]
KASHVI LALLA
Title: Senior AssociateOffice: JohannesburgDirect line: +27 (0)11 535 8171Email: [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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