Natal Law Certificate (1969)

Don Allaway is a partner in the firm's Corporate Department, where he has practised since joining the firm in 2000. Prior to that he practised in Durban for many years as a Corporate Lawyer.

Some of the matters in which Don has represented clients are, the transfer of the Professional Provident Society's insurance business to a Life Insurance Company, participation in the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor Project, the Initial Land Assembly for the Point Waterfront Development in Durban, the development of the Durban and Sandton Hilton Hotels and the development of the Zimbali Coastal Forest Estate. Don also represented Idion in its successful defence of a hostile take over bid initiated by Datamirror, a Canadian Company. He is currently representing a voluntary trading organisation with more than 250 outlets in South Africa and the United Kingdom which is the target of two competing take over bids initiated by subsidiaries of JSE listed companies. He also represents Bowman Gilfillan in respect of the development of the property it will occupy in the Sandton CBD.

Don is a fellow of the Society of Arbitrators and has lectured extensively at the invitation of professional organisations including the International Bar Association, the Association of Law Societies and to Accountants, Architects, Engineers and Quantity Surveyors.
Practice Focus
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Commercial and Industrial Property Development
• Hotel and Resort Development
• Insurance Law

+27 11 669-9301
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BA LLB (Wits)
Solicitor of England and Wales

David is a partner in Bowman Gilfillan’s corporate department and is the head of the firm’s banking and finance practice area. David specialises in banking law, as well as mergers and acquisitions within the financial services sector. David acts for a number of South African and international banks and institutions in relation to a full range of banking matters. He is a regular contributor to the Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law and a number of South African and international publications.

+27 11 669 9385
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B Comm LLB (Stellenbosch) LLM (Cambridge)

Anton Barnes-Webb is a partner in Bowman Gilfillan’s Corporate Department and is the head of the firm’s Project Finance and Infrastructure practice area. He specialises in project and other financing transactions and in mergers and acquisitions.

In the project finance field Anton has been involved in a number of projects, advising lenders in some transactions, and borrowers in other transactions. Recent examples are advising African Rainbow Minerals in the project financing of its joint venture for the development of Modikwe Platinum Mine, African Rainbow Minerals’ acquisition, in joint venture with Harmony, of Freegold, and acting on behalf of the lenders in the financing of the Marromeu (Mozambique) sugar agricultural project. He is currently the advisor to the lenders in respect of the proposed public private partnership for the new head office for the Department of Education.

In the Mergers and Acquisitions area Anton has recently advised Afrox in its disposal of its interest in Afrox Healthcare Limited. In addition Anton has advised a range of multi-national and local companies in various other merger and acquisition transactions.

In general banking and financing transactions, Anton has advised on structuring of lending arrangements for asset finance, discounting arrangements and on Export Credit Agency supported lending transactions.

An increasing amount of his work has involved acting in financing transactions in several jurisdictions in Africa outside of South Africa, including Mozambique, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea and Lesotho.

Anton also recently acted on behalf of various United States based charitable organisations and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation of the United States government in their funding of low income housing projects in the Republic of South Africa.

Practice Focus
• Corporate
• Project Finance & Infrastructure
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Broadcasting & Telecommunication
• Banking & Finance

+27 11 669-9303
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BA LLB (UCT)
H Dip Tax (Wits)

Ezra Davids is a partner in and the Head of our Corporate Department. He specialises in Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Capital Markets and Securities Law. Ezra has led the Bowman Gilfillan team in some of the largest M&A deals in the past year, including the disposal by Barrick Gold Corporation of Barrick Gold South Africa to Gold Fields Limited (US$1.55 billion), the acquisition by MTN Group of Investcom (US$5 billion) and the disposal by Polyus of its entire shareholding in Gold Fields Limited (US$2.02 billion). In Capital Markets he headed our teams in advising Goldman Sachs and UBS as joint global co-ordinators in the combined offering by Anglo American plc and Anglogold Ashanti of Anglogold Ashanti shares (US$1.69 billion) and Witsgold on its IPO on the JSE Limited.

Ezra is also the relationship partner for some of the firm’s clients like Goldman Sachs, UBS, Deutsche Bank, Merrill Lynch, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Eskom, Transnet, Barrick Gold Corporation, Public Investment Corporation, UPS and Merafe Resources.

Who’s Who Legal (2007) has named Ezra as one of the leading M&A lawyers in South Africa. He is currently the chairman of the Recent Developments in M&A of the International Bar Association and is a contributor to a number of international publications. Ezra is also a member of the Faculty Advisory Board of the Law Faculty of the University of Cape Town.

+27 11 669-9320
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BA LLB (Wits)
H Dip Tax (Wits)

Michael is one of the most senior partners in the firm and has wide ranging experience from representing foreign and local banks, insurance companies, pension funds and unit trusts, parastatal entities, computer companies, service companies, industrial and chemical manufacturing companies, pharmaceutical companies, distributors, engineering and construction companies. The fields in which his practice has been focussed from time to time include mergers and acquisitions, competition law, banking, insurance and financial services, property unit trusts, institutional property investment and development, joint ventures, project finance, intellectual property, tax, engineering and construction.

As lead attorney, Michael handled the disinvestment of Hewlett Packard from South Africa and its subsequent re-entry, by acquisition from Siltek. He was also lead attorney for the re-entry of IBM into South Africa by means of the staged acquisition of shares in the listed South African IBM company. Other experience includes restructuring of the French controlled AGF Insurance companies in South Africa and the Absa Bank group of insurance companies. He represented The Bank of New York in the establishment of its global custody arrangements in South Africa. He represented one of the main shareholders in connection with the official enquiry into the collapse of AA Mutual Insurance Association, one of the largest short term insurer’s in South Africa at that time. He handled the acquisition of the interest of BHP Holdings (International) Inc. in BHP Minerals Mali, Inc. for Randgold Resources (Holdings) Limited and the sale by Tiger Oats Limited of the entire issued share capital of Logos Pharmaceuticals (Proprietary) Limited to Merck & Co. Inc. For many years he represented the trustee of nearly all property unit trust companies in South Africa. He also assisted Sentrachem for many years with joint ventures and a variety of commercial agreements for the building of plant and the manufacture and distribution of chemicals. He negotiated and prepared all of the agreements for the strategic underground storage of crude oil in South Africa. He represented UCAR Carbon, a US corporation in its acquisition of 50% of the share capital of EMSA from Samancor. He also handled 3 schemes of arrangement for the merger of 4 gold mining companies, Kloof, Libanon and Venterspost in the Gold Fields Group.

+27 11 669-9329
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B Juris
LLB
LLM (Corporate Law)

Rudolph is a partner in the firm's corporate, commercial and financial services department. Rudolph has particular expertise in mining and resources related transactions, banking and financial services transactions, M&A transactions in the information technology sector, as well as in black economic empowerment transactions. In addition, Rudolph has particular expertise in debt and equity capital raising transactions in these sectors. Some of the transactions in which Rudolph has acted as the executing partner for our firm includes advising a consortium of banks on their equity funding in respect of Incwala Platinum and advising a consortium of local and international banks on a term loan facility with Western Platinum Limited, advising on the Murray & Roberts Holdings Limited black economic empowerment transaction, the Tongaat Hulett Limited black economic empowerment transaction and the unbundling and listing of Hulamin Limited and advising African Rainbow Minerals Limited on its acquisition of an interest in Xstrata Coal and the financing of the transaction.

+27 11 669-9331
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BA.LLB (UCT)
LLM (Cambridge)

Heather Duffey heads up the London office of Bowman Gilfillan and is a partner in the firm’s corporate department. Heather specializes in mergers and acquisitions (particularly cross border M&A), joint ventures, exchange control, banking and finance (including derivatives).

Heather focuses on advising European and multinational corporates in relation to mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures in South Africa and South African corporates in relation to cross border M&A. Heather also has extensive expertise in relation to banking and finance transactions with a South African aspect. She regularly advises a number of major international banks in relation to derivatives and structured products transactions with South African counterparties and in relation to South African law aspects of bank lending and syndicated lending arrangements, including exchange control, insolvency, taking of security under South African law and regulatory matters.

Some recent transactions which Heather has advised on include advising Virgin Active in relation to its investment into South Africa and its subsequent restructuring and increase of its interest in Virgin Active South Africa (approximately R1,8 billion), advising management in relation to an MBO of a listed South African corporate, advising an international bank on a structured product transaction with a South African counterparty (approximately R2 billion), advising Datatec in relation to its acquisition of a distribution network situated in ten European jurisdictions from Landis Group NV, advising a number of international banks in relation to the draft ISDA collateral support opinion for South Africa, making representations on behalf of domestic financial institutions for the amendment of the South African Insolvency Act insofar as it relates to post insolvency set-off and netting, advising Export Development Canada in relation to a restructuring of an aircraft financing transaction and the taking of security over aircraft in South Africa and advising the subscriber (an international bank) in relation to privately placed bond issue by a partially state owned enterprise (R2,5 billion).

Heather has contributed to articles published in the Journal of International Banking and Finance Law (Butterworths).

Practice Focus
• Corporate
• Banking and finance
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Banking, insurance and financial services
• Capital markets and securities law

+44 20 7430 0888
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B Comm LLB (Wits)
Notary Public

Kim Goss is a partner in Bowman Gilfillan’s Corporate Department focussing on commercial, mergers and acquisitions and banking and financial services practice areas.

Kim has also been involved in the privatisation and restructuring of state assets, Kim was part of the firm’s due diligence team that advised on the restructuring of Spoornet. She has also been part of several teams and has coordinated due diligence investigations in preparation for local and multinational mergers and acquisitions. Kim has also completed and closed many of those transactions.

On the corporate side Kim advises and assists local and foreign listed and unlisted companies, on all corporate matters and related exchange control issues. She was involved in the corporatisation and listing of Phumelela Gaming and Leisure Limited on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange.

On the financial services and banking side Kim advises local and international clients on aspects such as unit trusts and collective investment schemes and other related matters and has commented on existing and proposed legislation for the financial services industry.
Practice Focus
• Corporate
• Commercial
• Financial and Banking services
• Mergers and Acquisitions

+27 11 669-9339
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BA LLB (University of Cape Town)

Ashleigh Hale is a partner in Bowman Gilfillan’s Corporate Department. She has significant experience in mergers and acquisitions, privatisation and restructuring of state assets, joint ventures and strategic outsourcing in the IT industry.
In mergers and acquisitions, Ashleigh advises a range of multinational and local companies. Recent M&A transactions include:
 advising Alcatel CIT, Gemplus SA (now Gemalto) and Unisys Africa on the transfer of equity in their South African operations to black empowerment partners;
 advising Ponahalo Capital as co-lead attorney on its acquisition of shares in De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd.
In relation to the privatisation and restructuring of state assets, Ashleigh was part of the team which advised Transnet in relation to its proposed restructuring of Spoornet during 2000, and was co-lead attorney representing Turbomeca SA in relation to its acquisition of the Airmotive Division of Denel. Ashleigh is currently involved in advising Transnet in relation to the disposal of certain of its non-core assets and is advising Botswana Telecommunications Corporation in relation to its proposed privatisation.
In outsourcing, Ashleigh has advised EDS South Africa in relation to its strategic IT outsourcing arrangements and a variety of other related IT agreements.

+27 11 669-9342
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B.Com
LLB

Craig Kennedy is a partner in Bowman Gilfillan’s Corporate Department and is the head of the firm’s technology law practice group. Craig joined the firm after five years in London working as legal counsel for a global technology end to end solutions provider which designs, builds and operates world-class technology-enabled business solutions offering Professional Services, IT Services, Process Outsourcing and Contact Services. During his time there Craig was intimately involved in the creation and day to day support of a number of the UK’s leading technology companies, including in the areas of voice recognition and business (user) requirements definition. Prior to that Craig practised for 5 years in the commercial litigation department of an established Durban law firm.

Having worked on the supplier side of transactions, Craig now has a particular interest in advising customers looking to procure services, software and IT solutions from IT suppliers or customers looking to outsource services to third party service providers.

Craig’s recent corporate experience includes advising RMB in relation to their joint venture with Morgan Stanley to create RMB Morgan Stanley Stockbroking and advising EDS in relation to the disposal of 25% of their South Africa interests to a BEE consortium and an employee trust. The commercial matters on which Craig has advised clients include advising UCWP on agreements worth R1 billion relating to the supply of locomotives to Spoornet for use on the Richards Bay coal line, advised SAB in relation to the forward purchase, intake and storage of barley, advising General Motors on an agreement regulating the lease of all IT hardware in South Africa from a global IT hardware supplier, advising PPS on the outsourcing of its IT infrastructure and other significant IT projects, advising BIC on the outsourcing of part of its operations to various key suppliers and advising IBM on the R1billion outsourcing by Safmarine Container Lines of its IT infrastructure to IBM.

In addition, Craig has advised numerous companies in other diverse matters ranging from advice to MTN on its submissions to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Communications regarding the Convergence Bill to regulatory advice to major banks concerning cross border data privacy issues.

+27 11 669 9349
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BA and LLB from Wits, H Dip Company Law (Wits), H Dip Tax (RAU),Diploma in Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management (Unisa)

Anne did her articles at Werksmans (1988 – 1989) in Johannesburg and then practiced there as an attorney until she moved to Cape Town in 1993. After a year of lecturing at UWC, she joined Sonnenberg Hoffman and Galombik and became a partner in the commercial department in 1996. In 1997 she moved back to Johannesburg and joined the corporate finance department at RMB. Her job covered all aspects of M&A, particularly BEE transactions. The last transaction she worked on before leaving RMB was the Caltex empowerment deal, which was finalised at the end of 2002. Early in 2003, along with two of her RMB colleagues, she set up a boutique advisory business, Piton Capital, advising companies and black entrepreneurs on the design, financing and implementation of BEE transactions. She joined Bowman Gilfillan in June 2005 as a partner in the Cape Town corporate department.

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B Proc (Pretoria University)
LLM Banking Law (Unisa)
Diploma's in securities, financial markets and banking law

Lele is a director in the corporate department with experience in corporate and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions and banking and finance law, and capital markets and securities law (including debt and equity capital markets).

Lele is a member the Bowman Gilfillan Africa Group, her main focus being on mergers and acquisitions, privatisations (including of state owned enterprises in various African countries such as the most recent proposed privatisation of Air Botswana), and banking and finance law. Lele has experience in running due diligences in various African states in respect of proposed acquisitions, and has assisted various entities in establishing companies in various African states.

Lele has advised on financial services law regulation, including in financial advisory services, collective investment schemes, securities, asset swaps and securities lending. Lele recently advised Credit Suisse in the Standard Bank / Credit Suisse joint venture into a brokerage business, the Bank of New York on the establishment of a representative office in South Africa, and Standard & Poor’s on the establishment of its South African office. She recently advised on private equity transactions (including fund formation), acting for clients such as the Pan African Infrastructure Development Fund.

In the capital markets arena, Lele recently advised in the Airports Company of South Africa Limited on the establishment of its R12 billion Domestic Multi Term Note Programme, and has previously assisted Barloworld and Transnet on their bond issues. Lele also recently assisted in advising Merafe on its rights offer.

Lele also has experience relating to Black Economic Empowerment transactions, with the most recent including the Sasol/Tshwarisano BEE Transaction (R1.5 billion), a bid by BEE consortium in Gidani (Pty) Ltd for the National Lottery Licence, and advising the BEE consortium in Neotel (Pty) Ltd, Nexus Connexion (Pty) Ltd.

+27 11 669 9365
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B Comm LLB (Wits)
Post-graduate degree LLB (Wits)
Post-grade Higher Diploma in Income tax (Wits)

Jon Schlosberg is the chairman of Bowman Gilfillan. He was previously head of the firm’s Corporate Department. He specialises in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), corporate law, banking and finance, corporate governance, capital markets and securities law.

Jon led the firm’s team in advising Standard Bank on the acquisition by Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) of a 20% interest in the bank in what was then the largest direct foreign investment in South Africa and, according to Bloomberg, the largest foreign investment outside of China by a Chinese corporate.

Some of the other representative transactions in which Jon has acted as adviser include advising on the merger of Standard Bank’s asset management business with that of Liberty to form Stanlib; the disposal by Merril Lynch of its private client investment business; Armgold’s merger with Harmony Gold (a Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) deal); Nampak’s merger with Malbak; the acquisition by IBM of PwC’s consulting business; advising a consortium of banks on the financing of Incwala’s acquisition of 16% of Lonplats (a BEE deal); advising on the financing of Ponahalo’s acquisition of an interest in De Beers (a BEE deal); advising on the financing of Tshwarisano’s acquisition of an interest in Sasol (a BEE deal); advising Murray & Roberts on its BEE transaction; advising Associated British Foods' on its acquisition of Illovo Sugar; and advising Tongaat-Hulett and Hulamin on the financing of their respective BEE transactions.

Jon is a member of the Board of Patrons of AIESEC South Africa and the Board of Governors of Johannesburg Metropolitan Junior and Mini City Council.

+27 11 669-9390
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BA LLB (Wits) MSc in Law and Development (London School of Economics)
Presently completing a H Dip Company Law at Wits

Claire Tucker is a director at Bowman Gilfillan and the head of the Environment, Mining, Energy and Natural Resources practice area. She presently practises primarily in regulatory and environmental law and is widely published on these matters.

Claire has worked on a wide range of regulatory matters including the drafting of laws and regulations, High Court review applications in respect of decisions on regulatory matters, the interpretation and application of statutes as well as commercial and transactional advice. She practises in and advises on all environmental issues, particularly atmospheric pollution prevention, waste regulation, water, land use planning and environmental impact assessments. Claire has a particular interest in the socio-economic aspects of the constitutional right to a clean environment. Her regulatory areas of specialization include access to information, data protection and privacy, medical and pharmaceutical regulation, food safety and international trade, corporate governance and financial services regulation.

Claire obtained a BA LLB from Wits and an MSc in Law and Development from the London School of Economics. While overseas she worked for two years in London at Leigh Day and Co on plaintiff actions against multinational corporations causing damage to people and environments in developing countries, particularly on the Cape plc asbestos case and the Thor Chemicals case. She also spent half a year at the United Nation’s Food Agricultural Organisation in Rome in the Legal Office researching and advising on international environmental law matters.

Practice Focus
• Regulatory
• Corporate Governance
• Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety
• Trade Law and Lobbying advice
• Pharmaceutical
• Information and Privacy
• Financial Services

+27 11 669-9402
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BA LLB (UCT)
LLM (London)

Livia is a member of the public and regulatory law practice group, specialising in electronic communications and broadcasting and constitutional and administrative law. She joined Bowman Gilfillan as a candidate attorney in 2003 and was admitted as an attorney in 2005. Livia has advised a range of clients, including private entities and regulatory bodies, in judicial review and other proceedings in the High Court, Supreme Court of Appeal and Constitutional Court. Livia has advised the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa on its representations to the Department of Communications with regard to the digital migration strategy to be employed in South Africa, licensing processes, the conversion of licences in terms of the Electronic Communications Act, the amendment of licences and the drafting of regulations. She has also advised numerous private bodies on the regulatory requirements which are applicable in the communications sector. Livia has been involved in advising clients in the banking sector, particularly in relation to the revised banking regulatory scheme which has recently been implemented in South Africa.

+44 (0)207 430-0888
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LLB (Pretoria University)

Sylvia Lekhutlile is a senior associate in our corporate department specialising in Mergers and Acquisitions (including Black Economic Empowerment transactions) and Corporate Governance.

Sylvia was involved in the implementation of Hewlett-Packard's Black Economic Empowerment transaction and GlobeCast South Africa's Black Economic Empowerment Transaction with Tidimalo Investments (a subsidiary of Mowana Investments).

Sylvia contributes to an international publication on corporate governance and director's duties.
Upon completion of her LLB, Sylvia worked as an associate to Mr Justice A A Landman at the Labour Court of South Africa.

627 11 669 9523
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B ED (King Saud University) (first class honours), MA (University of Jordan), LLB (cum laude), LLM (UNISA), Certificate in Securitisation (UCT)

Shahid practices in the general corporate, financial services, banking and insurance, mergers and acquisitions and securities law fields.

He has worked on the acquisition by Standard Bank of a stake in the Nigerian banking sector, the RMB / Morgan Stanley joint venture, the acquisition by Hanwa (a Japanese company) of a stake in Samancor Chrome, the refinancing of Parmalat SA, advising Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse First Boston and others on derivatives transactions, exchange control, company law issues and various other matters, the development of hedge fund products by Alpha Asset Management (including international hedge fund structures), advising Sanlam Investment Management on the development of securities investment structures, advising Pfizer on various contractual and other arrangements in connection with its Nigerian operations, advising Goldman Sachs on the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act 2002 and related matters, acting for Shell in respect of industry wide petroleum supply arrangements with PetroSA, advising Linklaters and Clifford Chance on South African financial services and insurance laws and advising various insurance companies and banks on the structuring of Islamic financial products.

Shahid has also written articles published in various professional journals and publications, including the Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law and Getting the Deal Through.

+27 21 480-7907
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