NAMIBIA Law and Practice Contributed by: Professor Michael Katz, Wolf Wohlers, Karin Malherbe and Stefanie Busch, ENS Namibia (incorporated as Lorentz Angula Inc.)
ENS Namibia (incorporated as Lorentz Angula Inc.) established in 1919, is part of ENS, Africa’s largest law firm, with over 600 practitioners across 12 offices in seven African countries. The Namibian firm’s cor - porate commercial team advises on mergers, acqui - sitions and major deals, with specialist expertise in banking and finance, capital markets, energy, mining and project development. Notable mandates include advising Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. on potential acqui -
sitions of participation interests in Namibian PELs, advising major international oil companies on the po - tential acquisition of interests held by Impact Oil & Gas in PEL 2912 and 2913B in the Orange Basin, and advising offshore service providers, including Tech - nipFMC, Vallourec, SAIPEM, TLC, Catering Interna - tional & Services, Asco, and Blue Water Shipping, on subsidiary establishment and corporate structuring in Namibia.
Authors
Professor Michael Katz is chair of ENS and specialises in corporate and commercial law, including advising on M&A, competition law, tax law, privatisation and deregulation, project finance and non-recourse financing,
Karin Malherbe is an executive at ENS Namibia, with 13 years of experience. She is admitted as a legal practitioner of the High Court of Namibia and holds BSocSci and LLB degrees from Rhodes University. She
public-private partnerships, empowerment ventures and banking and financial markets. He is regularly quoted in the media and speaks at a number of international and domestic conferences and high- profile events. Michael publishes numerous articles, chapters and papers on legal and fiscal topics, including co-authoring the Butterworths Company Law Precedents (four volumes) and South Africa’s contribution to the United Nations’ and Harvard University’s Corporate Law Tools project. Wolf Wohlers is an executive at ENS Namibia and an admitted legal practitioner of the High Court of Namibia. He holds BA, B. Journalism (Hons.) LLB (University of Stellenbosch) and LLM (University of South Africa) degrees. Wolf Wohlers specialises in corporate commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, mining and petroleum law, infrastructure, project structuring and project finance.
specialises in intellectual property, competition law, mergers and acquisitions, regulatory matters and due diligence investigations, and further advises clients across a number of industries including telecommunications and insurance. She is an associate member of the South African Institute of IP Law (SAIIPL) and an African Regional IP Authority Agent.
Stefanie Busch is an executive at ENS Namibia and is admitted as a legal practitioner of the High Court of Namibia. She holds BA, LLB and LLM (Environmental Law) degrees from the University of Cape Town, as well as
an Advanced Masters in Energy Law from the North Sea Energy Law Programme. Stefanie specialises in energy, project development, mining, environmental law, commercial law and mergers and acquisitions.
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