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.

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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

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BComm and LLB (University of Witwatersrand)

Tammy was admitted as an attorney and notary public of the High Court of South Africa in 2000 and practices in the areas of corporate and commercial law. She advises clients on all aspects of merger and acquisitions transaction for listed and unlisted companies, and drafts agreements. Due diligence investigations mainly in merger and acquisition transactions.

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Bachelor of Commerce and LLB degrees (University of Witwatersrand)

Lloyd was admitted as an attorney and notary public of the High Court of South Africa. He joined the corporate department of Bowman Gilfillan in 2000, and practices in all areas of corporate and commercial law. Lloyd’s particular areas of expertise lies in construction, engineering and development, finance (particularly in relation to the South African film industry), project finance, and mergers and acquisitions in relation to listed and unlisted entities.

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BA LLB (Wits)

Robert Cohen is a partner in Bowman Gilfillan’s Corporate Department. He specialises in mergers and acquisitions (listed and unlisted companies).

Robert has particular expertise in schemes of arrangement and black economic empowerment transactions.

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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.

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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.

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B.Comm. LLB
(with distinction) (Wits).

Lance practices in the area of corporate and company law and has done so since 1997. He has drafted agreements for the acquisition and disposal of companies and their businesses as well as shareholders and joint venture agreements and advises on black economic empowerment transactions, listings of companies on the JSE Limited, the structuring and implementation of takeover bids of public companies, the establishment of employee share incentive schemes, the restructuring of corporate entities and, generally, transactions involving listed and unlisted companies.

+27 11 669 9309
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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.

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B Proc (UCT)

Cape Law Society: Member
Partner at MacCallums (1984-2000)

Paul is a partner in the corporate department in our Cape Town office. He regularly acts as attorney and adviser to one of the leading sports agencies, World Artists (SA) (Pty) Ltd. World Artists represents 70 professional rugby players, of which 18 are Springbok players. Paul also acts for these players in contractual and sponsorship matters. Paul’s work entails, advising and drafting in relation to players’ contracts, sponsorships and the like. Paul also actively advises on the professional sports tournaments.

Lastly, Paul represents a football sports agency which represent many professional South African football players.

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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.

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B Com LLB (Natal) MBL (Unisa)

Derek Lotter has been a Partner with Bowman Gilfillan since 2001, and holds B Comm and LLB degrees and a Masters in Business Leadership.

Derek has been involved in a large number of prominent mergers and behavioural competition matters before the competition authorities in South Africa, and has advised on all aspects of South African competition law.

Derek is currently advising an international airline in the Commission's separate investigations into surcharges in the air cargo and passenger sectors, and a respondent in the complaint referral to the Competition Tribunal against Clover and seven others in the milk sector. Derek is advising a firm in respect of the complaint referral proceedings involving JTI and British American Tobacco SA, and is defending a firm in the mining sector against allegations that it has breached the conditions for the approval of a merger. Derek is advising parties that are the subject of complaint proceedings in the steel, foundry and scrap metal sectors. Derek is currently advising a pharmaceutical company as regards complaint proceedings initiated in the area of HIV/Aids and the supply of antiretrovirals, and a firm as regards the Commission's investigations into the milling and bread sectors.

Derek has extensive experience in a variety of sectors allowing him to advise on the competition law implications of conduct in a number of affected markets. Derek regularly conducts compliance programs and seminars for clients including those with activities in sub-Saharan Africa (such as Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe), and is a regular speaker at conferences in South Africa.

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B.luris (University of South Africa, 1982);
LLB (University of Zimbabwe, 1985);
LLM (University of Witwatersrand, 1992);
Higher Diploma in Tax Law (University of Witwatersrand, 1994);
LLD (University of South Africa, 1997)

Professional Qualifications : Admitted and enrolled to practice as an Attorney, Notary and Conveyancer in the RSA.

Academic Works contributed to: (1) Cachalia et al, Fundamental Rights in the Constitution (Juta % Co.; Cape Town 1994);
(2) Davis, Cheadle & Haysom(eds), Fundamental Rights in Constitution (2nd ed, Juta & Co., Cape Town, 1997);
(3) Cheadle, Davis & Haysom(eds), South African Constitutional Law: The Bill of Rights (Butterworths, Durban, 2002).

Worked with and under Professor Jack Greenberg (who, together with the late Turgood Marshall of the NAAF, handled the litigation in Brown v Board of Education, Topeka, US 1954) at the Columbia Law School, Columbia University, New York, as a visiting scholar in 1986.

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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.

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BA LLB (Wits)

Rob Morson is a partner in Bowman Gilfillan’s Corporate Department. He was admitted as an attorney in 1996 and has practiced in both the commercial and litigation fields.

Rob advises various multinational and local companies on a broad range of commercial matters including general commercial agreements, supply and service agreements, consortia and joint ventures, corporate restructurings, development leases and commercial property transactions but specialises in mergers and acquisitions and construction and engineering law and is the Corporate Department Construction and Engineering Practice Area Manager.

In the Construction and Engineering field he has represented clients in numerous sector specific disposals and acquisitions and has advised employers, contractors and consultants on contracts (both standard form and special purpose), disputes and other matters in connection with, inter alia, energy projects (including coal fired and nuclear), mining and process plant projects (including waste, cement, paper and acid plants and aluminium smelters), equipment supply, erection & refurbishment projects and fabricated steel supply projects (including line-pipe for water, oil and gas applications), sport stadium and port projects and residential and commercial property projects.

Clients for whom he acts include the Eskom, the Murray & Roberts Group, Volvo, PPC and AngloGold Ashanti.

Practice Focus
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Construction & Engineering Law

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BA (Social Sciences) (UCT),
LLB (University of Natal) (Durban)

Lulama Mtanga is a Director at Bowman Gilfillan specialising in competition law. She holds BA (Social Sciences) degree from the University of Cape Town, LLB degree from the University of Natal (Durban) and Postgraduate Diploma in European Union Competition Law from King’s College, University of London. Lulama represents Bowman Gilfillan at the Competition Law Committee, a subcommittee of the Law Society for competition law practitioners.

Before joining Bowman Gilfillan, Lulama was employed by the Competition Commission of South Africa (the “Commission”) for 3 years.
Some of the key matters Lulama worked on whilst at the Commission include Commission/SAA (the Nationwide complaint referral on which a Tribunal decision is pending), Commission/Patensie, Commission/Bernina Saskor and Commission/UDIPA. She was also part of the Commission team that prepared advisory opinions.

At Bowman Gilfillan, Lulama has advised clients on, and prepared, a number of mergers which include Afrox Healthcare/Wilgeheuwel, Afrox/Twinco, Afrox/Electrogas Armgold/Harmony, ARM/Avmin, Barloworld/Waterlines, Bridgepoint/GSL, General Electric/Edwards Systems Technology (Ziton), Greif SA/Rheem SA, Industrial Development Corporation (IDC)/Prilla & Dynasty, PIC(GEPF)/Tiber, Robert Bosch/SIG Pack, Sagem/Snecma, SA Chrome (Merafe)/Xstrata, South African Airways/EDS(Atraxis), UAP Agrochemicals & Crop Care/Plaaskem, AP Moller (Maersk/Safmarine)/P&O Nedlloyd, Advent International/Boart Longyear, Reatile/Mondi Imbani/Izingodo Timrite, Ericsson/Marconi and Baltrans/Clover Cargo/Denel/Turbomeca, General Motors/Isuzu, Nkomati/LionOre/ Pfizer Johnson & Johnson, adidas/Reebok, Barloworld/Robor/ Xstrata/Arm (coal transaction.

Lulama has, inter alia, advised clients on the investigation by the Commission in the motor vehicle and currently on the milk industry.

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BA (Econ) (Stel)
LLB (Wits)
H Dip Tax (Wits)

Member, Law Society of the Transvaal

+27 11 669-9386
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B.Comm. LLB
H.Dip Tax Law (Wits).

Carl is a partner in the corporate department, and specialises in corporate, M&A and securities law, negotiating commercial transactions, stock exchange transactions, corporate and structured finance and the drafting of complex documentation. He is also a non-executive director of various listed companies. Stein acted as the lead corporate counsel for Telkom SA Ltd when it listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).

+27 11 669 9310
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B.Proc (Unisa)
LLB (Unisa)
LLM (in commercial laws) (UCT)

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B.A. LLB (Wits)

Daryn specialises in project work, having advised mostly borrowers in project and corporate finance transactions. Daryn leads our team in the concession for the new DTI head office and is handling the DRC/Zambia interconnector and the Mozambique Gas concession. He also has extensive experience in due diligences of all types. Daryn has been a partner since 1997.

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BA LLB (UCT)

Peter joined Bowman Gilfillan in 1980 and was admitted as a partner in 1983. He specialises in commercial litigation generally, but with specific emphasis on insolvency related matters, workouts and corporate restructuring. He has advised the majority of the country’s financial institutions and has also represented numerous insolvency practitioners and creditors. He has been involved in a number of cross-border insolvency matters involving jurisdictions as diverse as the Isle of Man, the Republic of Ireland, Namibia, Portugal, Uruguay and Japan. Peter also practices in the field of sports law and has represented sports unions and individual sports men and women and their agents in, amongst other things, contract negotiation, disciplinary enquiries and sponsorship agreements. He is a member of several committees, institutions and public bodies, both professional and non professional and holds a number of directorships and is legal advisor to various charitable foundations and trusts.

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B.Proc
LLB

Hlengiwe is a partner in Bowman Gilfillan Corporate Department specializing in public sector procurement and regulatory law, IT Law, General Commercial and Public Private Partnerships.

Hlengiwe has represented state owned enterprises, government departments as well as international corporations and well known local companies in extremely varied industries including: Broadcasting and Telecommunications, Fuel and Lubricants, Pharmaceutical, Food and Food Processing, Advertising and Communications, Designer Labels and Perfumery and Information Technology and Communications.

Hlengiwe was a member of the task team that drafted the discussion paper on electronic commerce and recently reviewed HANIS (Home Affairs National Identification System) on behalf of the Department of Home Affairs. Hlengiwe has also been extensively involved in the review of the CabEnet Document Management System, Batho Pele Gateway Project and Seat Management System.

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Georg is a senior associate in the firm’s corporate department. He focuses primarily on mergers and acquisitions and commercial property transactions. Recent transactions that he was involved in include the acquisition by Mvelaphanda Resources Limited of 22.3% of the issued share capital of Northam Limited from Anglo Platinum and the subscription by LBREP (Lehman Brothers Real Estate Partners) of 5,884,012 combined units in JSE listed Pangbourne Properties Limited. He has significant experience in unlisted M&A transactions including Black Economic Empowerment related transactions. He has advised on tax aspects of commercial transactions.

+27 11 669-9151
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B Soc Sc (SWK)
LLB (UCT)
LLM (Tax) (Wits)

Moipone is a senior associate in the firm's corporate and commercial department. She was admitted as an attorney in 2005.

She has general commercial law experience including drafting general commercial agreements and advising clients on all aspects of merger and acquisitions transaction for listed and unlisted companies.

+27 11 669-9350
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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.

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BA (Law) (University of Stellenbosch)
LLB (University of Stellenbosch)

Tsakani joined Bowman Gilfillan as a senior associate in 2007. She holds BA and LLB degrees from the University of Stellenbosch. She qualified in 2004 and practices in the field of competition law. In 2004, she spent four months on secondment to the London competition department of a major international law firm. She has extensive experience in relation to mergers, including appearing on behalf of clients before the Competition Tribunal. She also has experience in the prosecution and defence of complaints and has been involved in competition compliance and training programmes.

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B.Proc (Potchefstroom)
LLB (Potchefstroom)
LLM (Law of contract) (Pretoria)

Lizel is a senior associate in the Environment, Mining, Energy and Natural Resources practice area.

She has 6 years of experience in the oil, gas and coal industry. She joined Sasol Mining (Pty) Ltd in 2002 and advised on the Mozambique natural gas pipeline as well as on the implementation of Sasol Mining’s broad-based empowerment strategy through the formation of Igoda Coal (Pty) Limited, an empowerment venture with Eyesizwe Coal. She advised on health and safety-, environmental- and commercial matters and performed secretarial duties for various boards. In 2006 she joined the Petroleum Agency (Pty) Ltd where she advised on the interpretation of the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act of 2002. She played and active role in submissions to the Minister of Minerals and Energy regarding the granting and refusal of Mineral Rights. Her experience as legal advisor at Sasol and the Petroleum Agency of South Africa serves as valuable background when advising and representing clients. She advises on all aspects relating to petroleum industry, upstream as well as down-stream.

+27 21 480 7929
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BA (UKZN – Pietermaritzburg Campus)
LLB (UCT)

Guy is a senior associate in Bowman Gilfillan’s Corporate Department and admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa. He completed his articles with the firm between 2004 and 2005 and has been in the Department ever since. Guy practices in all areas of corporate and general commercial law but his particular area of expertise lie in mergers and acquisitions.

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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.

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B Com (Economics & Law) (Wits)
LLB (Wits)
LLM (Wits)

Anne Taylor is a senior associate in Bowman Gilfillan’s Corporate Department and is a member of the firm’s Competition and Trade Law practice area. She specialises in mergers and acquisitions and corporate and commercial advice. She joined Bowman Gilfillan in April 2007.
Anne did her training with Mervyn Taback Inc and was with the firm for 2 ½ years, where she did commercial litigation and corporate and transactional work. She was admitted as an attorney in 2005. She spent 18 months with a black economic empowerment transaction advisory agency in the role of legal advisor and head of due diligence, before joining Bowman Gilfillan.

On the M&A front, Anne recently advised Virbac S.A, a French animal health products company, on the acquisition by its local subsidiary of the assets comprising the business of a local animal health products company. She was also involved in the recent acquisition by Westinghouse Electric UK Limited of local nuclear energy business IST Nuclear (Proprietary) Limited.
On the corporate side, Anne advises and assists local and foreign listed and unlisted companies on all corporate matters. She has been part of and has coordinated due diligence investigations in preparation for local and multinational mergers and acquisitions.

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Head of Africa Group
BA (Hons) Law, Kent
Solicitor England, Wales and Hong Kong

Jonathan Lang is a member of Bowman Gilfillan’s Corporate Department and head of the firm’s Africa Group. He is qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales and Hong Kong. He specialises in corporate finance, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, privatisations and equity and equity-linked capital markets. He is based in Bowman Gilfillan’s Cape Town office.

The Africa Group provides legal services to corporates, financial institutions and governments throughout Africa. Working in co-operation with leading firms in the continent, the Africa Group adds value to cross border corporate, commercial and finance transactions by providing legal project management, negotiating, structuring and drafting skills to its clients. It also provides pan-African advisory services in matters such as stock exchange regulation and privatisation of state owned assets. Jonathan’s experience includes the proposed privatisation of Air Botswana, advising Standard Bank on the acquisition of a controlling interest in IBTC Chartered Bank in Nigeria, advising Botswana Telecom in preparation for its privatisation and advising Virgin Group on the establishment of Virgin Money in South Africa.

Jonathan practised at leading UK law firm Allen & Overy for 20 years, of which 9 were as a partner. During that time he gained extensive experience of cross-border corporate and capital markets transactions at Allen & Overy’s London, Paris and Hong Kong offices. His experience outside Africa includes advising Dutch telecommunications company KPN on the acquisition of German mobile network E-Plus, VSNL (the Indian long distance telecommunications company) on its privatisation and Merrill Lynch on the issue of convertible bonds by The Bank of East Asia.

+27 21 480 7930
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