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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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.

+27 11 669 9304
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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.

+27 11 669 9315
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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.

+27 11 669-9317
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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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BA (University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg)
LLB (UCT)
LLM (Wits)

Charles Douglas is a partner in Bowman Gilfillan’s Corporate Department and is a member of the firm’s Competition and Trade Law practice area. He specialises in mergers and acquisitions and regulatory advice.

Charles did his training at Bowman Gilfillan and was with the firm for 5½ years before undertaking an 18 month secondment to the Sydney office of Allens Arthur Robinson during 2005 and 2006. Charles is also admitted as a lawyer of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.

Recent M&A transactions that Charles advised on include the acquisition of shares in CRC, an AIM listed company with mining interests in the DRC, the unbundling of PPC from the Barloworld group, the sale of Independent Liquor, a New Zealand company (where he acted for a bidder) and the sale of P&O’s global cold logistics business to Versacold, a Canadian company. Charles also has experience with various empowerment transactions, including those undertaken by Afripack (a PPC subsidiary) and ABB.

In the regulatory area, Charles has been involved in advising the liquor industry in relation to new national and provincial liquor legislation and various multinational and local pharmaceutical companies, in relation to corporate, M&A and regulatory matters.

On the capital markets front, Charles has advised Metorex in respect of its capital raising exercise for that company’s Ruashi project in the DRC, as well as a share buy-back for BHP Billiton Limited. Charles also advised Metorex on the project finance related to phase II of its Ruashi project in the DRC.

+27 11 669 9426
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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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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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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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B Comm LLB (Wits)
MBA (Wits)

Robert Legh is a partner in Bowman Gilfillan’s Corporate Department and is the head of the firm’s Competition and Trade Law practice area. He specialises in competition law, regulatory advice / lobbying and mergers and acquisitions.

In the competition law environment Robert has been involved in a number of merger filings, such as Nampak / Malbak, SAB / Rheem, Bidvest / Paragon and more recently Altech / Namitech and Murray & Roberts / Cementation.

He also advises in restrictive practice and abuse of dominance cases. He advised Standard Bank on competition law issues during Nedcor’s failed takeover bid.

In the regulatory area he has recently been involved in advising the liquor industry in relation to new national and provincial liquor legislation and the Pharmaceutical Task Group, an alliance of multinational and local pharmaceutical companies, in relation to the government’s proposed new pricing regulations for medicines.

In mergers and acquisitions Robert advises a range of multinational and local companies. Recent transactions involved Pretoria Portland Cement’s takeover of Portland Holdings in Zimbabwe and the subsequent listing of PPC on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange, Pfizer’s acquisition of Pharmacia and Alcatel’s re-entry into South Africa and its recently announced black empowerment transaction.

Robert is a co-author of the leading text book on competition law in South Africa and is a regular contributor to local and international publications on competition law. He is a member of the Executive Committee of Bowman Gilfillan.
Practice Focus
• Corporate
• Competition & Trade Law
• Regulatory / Lobbying advice
• Mergers and Acquisitions

+27 11 669-9352
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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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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

+27 11 669-9370
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BA (Econ) (Stel)
LLB (Wits)
H Dip Tax (Wits)

Member, Law Society of the Transvaal

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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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Business Science and LLB degrees (University of Cape Town

Paul is a partner in the Corporate Department and specialises in capital markets (debt and equity) and mergers and acquisitions.

Paul has advised issuers and underwriters alike in capital raising by South African issuers on securities exchanges in Africa, North America and Europe. Recent capital markets deals Paul has advised on include: advising Credit Suisse as international distribution agent for Celtel Zambia’s IPO; advising Barclays Capital and Dresdner Kleinwort as joint lead managers on the convertible bond issue by Netcare and advising Standard Bank on the establishment of its EMTN Programme, listed on the LSE.

On the M&A front, Paul has advised on public takeovers, inward investment into South Africa, joint ventures and private equity transactions. Paul recently advised Nokia Siemens Networks on its joint venture in Africa with Reunert Limited; Credit Suisse on its role in the takeover by Evraz of Highveld Steel and Vanadium from Anglo American and First Reserve Corporation/AMCI on their investment in the Pamodzi Resources Fund, the largest private equity fund in South Africa.

South African contributor to Getting the Deal Through - Securities Finance, an annual international review of securities law by leading law firms around the world, published by Law Business Research, the official research partner of the International Bar Association (Getting the deal through)

+27 11 669 9391
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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 Comm LLB (Wits)
H Dip Tax (Wits)

Charles Valkin is the most senior partner in our firm’s corporate, commercial and financial services department. He has extensive experience in M & A and financing transactions. Chambers and Partners has regularly ranked him as one of South Africa’s foremost corporate/M & A and banking and finance lawyers. Charles has been the lead lawyer in some of the largest transactions in which our firm has acted as legal advisors. These include the acquisition by SBC Communications and Telkom Malaysia of a thirty percent (30%) shareholding in Telkom SA from the South African government ($1.5 billion); the merger of Gencor and GFSA gold assets to form the second largest South African gold company, Goldfields Limited; acquisition by Acerinox of Highveld Steel from Anglo-American (R3 billion); merger of Harmony and Armgold (R5.8 billion); merger of ARMI/Avmin/Harmony non-gold assets (R10.8 billion); financing of Uthingo National Lottery by Standard Bank; Deutsche Bank and Standard Bank project financing of the Target gold mine (R1.1 billion). He has recently retired as a director of Reunert Limited and Telkom SA Limited. He is also the relationship partner in the firm for General Motors, Colgate-Palmolive, IPG and AT&T.

+27 11 669-9404
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BA LLB (Stellenbosch)

David is a partner in Bowman Gilfillan’s Corporate Department. David specialises in mergers and acquisitions and general corporate and commercial law, as well as the provision of regulatory advice to clients in the pharmaceutical and liquor industries and in the field of black economic empowerment.

Recent M&A transactions that David has advised on include black economic empowerment transactions entered into by Merrill Lynch, Inc. and Cisco Systems, Inc., involving the disposal of equity stakes in the listed parent companies to South African empowerment shareholders and the disposal by Boart Longyear of its mining capital equipment business to a private equity buyer. David was also part of the team advising the Tongaat-Hulett Group in relation to a transaction involving, inter alia, the unbundling of Tongaat Hulett Group’s shareholding in Hulamin and the introduction of BEE partners into both Tongaat Hulett and Hulamin.

In the regulatory area, David has been involved in advising the liquor industry in relation to new national and provincial liquor legislation and various multinational and local pharmaceutical companies in relation to commercial and regulatory matters.

+27 11 669 9415
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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.

+27 11 669-9346
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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.

627 11 669 9523
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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.

+27 11 669-9380
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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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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.

+27 11 669-9469
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B.Com and LL.B (Wits)
LLM (London School of Economics)
H Dip Tax (Wits)

Michael Adcock has been a partner of Bowman Gilfillan Inc. since 1970. He was Chairman of the firm from August 1992 to February 2004, and is one of the most senior partners in the firm. Michael is currently a member of the firm’s Executive Committee, a director of The Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa, a member of The International Bar Association, a member of the American Bar Association and The Law Society of the Northern Provinces.

Michael specialises in corporate and income tax law and has considerable experience in international transactions. His expertise covers acquisitions, mergers and takeovers, corporate structuring, corporate governance and stock exchange matters. He was the lead attorney in advising the successful party in the first hostile takeover bid in South Africa, the unbundling of Barlow Rand Limited and the merger of leading financial institutions. More recently he was involved in the acquisition by Barloworld Limited of Avis and is currently assisting clients in structuring black empowerment investments. He has represented a wide range of foreign and local clients, including industrial companies, banks, insurance companies, pension funds, mining companies, computer and engineering companies.

Mr. Adcock has lectured on company law and taxation at the University of the Witwatersrand and has participated as a lecturer in the Continuing Legal Education program of The Association of Law Societies of the Republic of South Africa.
Practice Focus
• Corporate
• Corporate Finance
• International & S.A. Income Tax
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Corporate Governance
• Banking

+27 11 669-9300
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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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