CORPORATE MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS PRACTICE AREA

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1 CORPORATE MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS PRACTICE AREA The market leading team of Corporate/M&A lawyers at Werksmans is the driving force behind the firm s impressive credentials as one of the powerhouses in South African commercial law. Our Corporate/M&A team has extensive experience combining exceptional transactional skills with specialist expertise - honed over decades of corporate and commercial experience in both public and private corporate mergers, as well as in private equity and international cross border transactions. The team works closely with our experts in related fields such as taxation and competition law and also deals with the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), Takeover Regulation Panel and The South African Reserve Bank. Our lawyers act for clients in a variety of sectors - including mining, retail, telecommunications, banking and insurance. Our team has accordingly represented numerous South African and international clients engaged in takeovers, reverse takeovers, corporate mergers, acquisitions, restructuring, hostile bids, privatisations and empowerment transactions. General corporate matters, including corporate finance and securities laws also feature prominently in our practice, where our team also advises on new listings/flotations, de-listings and issues of shares. MARKETPLACE RECOGNITION Our leadership in the Corporate/M&A practice area has been recognised by a diversity of respected national and international ranking organisations and research institutions. Werksmans has consistently been at or near the top of the rankings once they commenced. These include: > > Chambers Global: the World s Leading Lawyers for Business - Werksmans is ranked in band 1 in Corporate/M&A. > > IFLR1000: the guide to the World s Leading Financial Law Firms - Werksmans is ranked in tier 2 for Corporate/M&A (2018). > > Legal Werksmans is ranked tier 1 in Corporate/M&A. > > DealMakers - Werksmans has consistently been recognised as amongst the leading legal advisers for its M&A and General Corporate Finance work. > > DealMakers - Werksmans Attorneys, ranked 5th place, is recognised as amongst the leading legal advisors for listed companies in M&A by deal flow (2016). > > DealMakers - Werksmans Attorneys, ranked in 4th place, is recognised as amongst the leading legal advisors for unlisted companies in M&A by deal flow (2016). > > DealMakers - Werksmans Attorneys, ranked 5th place, is recognised as amongst the leading legal advisors for listed companies in M&A by deal value (2016). > > DealMakers - Werksmans Attorneys, ranked 4th place, is recognised as amongst the leading legal advisors for unlisted companies in M&A by deal value (2016). > > DealMakers - Werksmans Attorneys, ranked 41st place, is ranked as legal advisors for M&A activity by value for work on the African continent, i.e. where one of the parties or the asset is based in an African country outside of SA (2016).

2 MEET THE CORPORATE MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS TEAM GERHARD JOHANNES Direct line: +27 (0) DANNY ANDROPOULOS Direct line: +27 (0) NOZIPHO BHENGU Direct line: +27 (0) ZE EV BLIEDEN Direct line: +27 (0) JANNIE DE VILLIERS Direct line: +27 (0) ROBERT DRIMAN Direct line: +27 (0) SHIRLEY FODOR Direct line: +27 (0) DAVID GEWER Direct line: +27 (0) IRMA-DALENE GOUWS Direct line: +27 (0) DEON GRIESSEL Direct line: +27 (0) SHAYNE KRIGE and practice area head Direct line: +27 (0) PIERRE LE ROUX Direct line: +27 (0) STEPHAN LOCHNER Direct line: +27 (0) HAPPY MASONDO and practice area head Direct line: +27 (0) JANENE MEIRING Direct line: +27 (0) LURESHAN NAIDOO Direct line: +27 (0)

3 MEET THE CORPORATE MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS TEAM CONTINUED JARED NICKIG Direct line: +27 (0) WILLIE OOSTHUIZEN Direct line: +27 (0) SEROSHAN PADAYACHY Direct line: +27 (0) TARYN POTTER Direct line: +27 (0) BRIAN PRICE Direct line: +27 (0) ADAM PYZIKOWSKI Direct line: +27 (0) AARTHI RAMDHIN Direct line: +27 (0) CHRIS STEVENS Direct line: +27 (0) PIETER STEYN Direct line: +27 (0) PAUL TINDLE Direct line: +27 (0) KEVIN TRUDGEON Direct line: +27 (0) HERMAN VAN NIEKERK Office: Tyger Valley Direct line: +27 (0) DAVE WALKER Direct line: +27 (0) ELLIOTT WOOD Direct line: +27 (0) DEREK ALEXANDER Direct line: +27 (0) NJABULO HLOPHE Direct line: +27 (0)

4 MEET THE CORPORATE MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS TEAM CONTINUED KASHVI LALLA Direct line: +27 (0) HILAH LASKOV Direct line: +27 (0) KHATHU NELUHENI Direct line: +27 (0) BRONWYN PARKER Direct line: +27 (0) IIZLE CILLIE Direct line: +27 (0) LIAM HEINZELMANN Direct line: +27 (0) NOMSA HLANGULELA Direct line: +27 (0) JARRYD MARDON Office: Tygervalley Direct line: +27 (0) BOITUMELO MOTI Direct line: +27 (0) BAFANA NTULI Direct line: +27 (0) ANTIMO OSATO Direct line: +27 (0) LAURA SIMPSON Direct line: +27 (0) ARMAND SWART Direct line: +27 (0) MICHAELA TYFIELD Direct line: +27 (0) SU-ANNE VAN DER MERWE Direct line: +27 (0) KIM WILLIAMS Direct line: +27 (0)

5 Keep us close The Corporate & Commercial Law Firm A member of the LEX Africa Alliance ABOUT WERKSMANS ATTORNEYS Established in the early 1900s, Werksmans Attorneys is a leading South African corporate and commercial law firm, serving multinationals, listed companies, financial institutions, entrepreneurs and government. Operating in Gauteng and the Western Cape, the firm is connected to an extensive African legal alliance through LEX Africa. LEX Africa was established in 1993 as the first and largest African legal alliance and offers huge potential for Werksmans clients seeking to do business on the continent by providing a gateway to Africa. With a formidable track record in mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance, and commercial litigation and dispute resolution, Werksmans is distinguished by the people, clients and work that it attracts and retains. Werksmans more than 200 lawyers are a powerful team of independent-minded individuals who share a common service ethos. The firm s success is built on a solid foundation of insightful and innovative deal structuring and legal advice, a keen ability to understand business and economic imperatives and a strong focus on achieving the best legal outcome for clients.