AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Corporate, M&A

QUALIFICATIONS

• Master of Laws, University of Pretoria
• Bachelor of Laws, University
• Admitted to practice in New South Wales, High Court of Australia and South Africa
• Attorney of the High Court of South Africa

SELECTED REPRESENTATIONS

Australia

• Assisted the Trippas White Group with the acquisition of a catering and cleaning business from Spotless (part of the Downer Group).
• Assisted with the sale of 50% of the equity interest in ThinkEx (EFEX) by Alceon Private Equity Group for approximately $55 million.
• Assisted Lifewealth with the sale of shares by two shareholders to Ironbark Asset Management Pty Ltd.

South Africa

• Assisted International Housing Solutions Residential Partners 1, a leading real estate fund and property manager focused on the development of residential housing, in respect of the sale of 1,983 residential units spread across seven properties to a specialised residential property fund listed on the AltX Board on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, Transcend Residential Property Fund Limited. The purchase consideration for the transaction was valued at R1.21 billion.
• Assisted AIG Capital Partners, (advisers to the AIG Global Emerging Markets Fund) on all South African and pan-African aspects of the Fund’s acquisition of a significant minority stake in African mass-market credit provider Blue Financial Services.
• Assisted Pangea Investment Management, an investment holding company backed by an international syndicate of financiers, to implement complex and innovative financing to assist the Lonmin Group, a platinum producer, in extinguishing its existing credit lines in the UK and South Africa. This was effected by implementing a metal streaming transaction, meaning that Lonmin will forward sell various platinum group metals to Pangea Investment Management for an advance of USD200 million.