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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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)
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 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.

+27 21 480 7860
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LLB
Bachelor of Social Science

Jabu has, since 1997, advised on various limited recourse project finance and other structured finance transactions. He advised on the N4 and the N3 toll road projects. In 1999 he spent time with the Project Finance team of Freshfields, Bruckhaus Derringer in London, advising on hospitals, prisons, toll roads, power stations and other projects. In 2000 he advised on the Louis Trichardt Prison and Inkosi Albert Luthuli Hospital projects. Prior to joining the firm in 2005, he was a partner in a major law firm and senior manager in Project Finance at Standard Bank working on cross-border power, accommodation, high speed rail and infrastructure fund projects.

+27 11 669-9341
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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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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.

+27 11 669-9410
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