SOUTH AFRICA Law and Practice Contributed by: Ulrike Naumann, Alison Mellon, Joshua Janks and Aneria Bouwer, Bowmans
Bowmans is a leading African law firm provid- ing integrated legal services across Africa from Kenya, Mauritius, Namibia, South Africa, Tanza- nia and Zambia, together with alliance firms in Ethiopia and Nigeria. Bowmans’ finance prac- tice is recognised as a market leader in innova- tion, efficiency, documentation standards and best practice in Africa. The firm’s specialist fi- nancing and funding expertise includes acqui- sition, assets, commodities, corporate, ECIC
export credit, leveraged, mining and resource, preference share, real estate, secured lending, structured, subordinated and mezzanine, syn- dicated, pre-export finance and venture capi- tal. Clients continue to instruct the firm on their most complex transactions which require inno- vative and, in many cases, bespoke transaction documents to reflect their commercial objec- tives.
Authors
Ulrike Naumann heads Bowmans’ finance practice and is recognised as a leading lawyer in South Africa. She has significant experience in advising banks, financial
Alison Mellon honed her skills as a finance lawyer during her tenure as senior associate in Bowmans’ finance practice, where she advised banks and financial institutions in secured
institutions and corporates with which she holds strong relationships, on secured and syndicated lending, structured finance, mezzanine finance and preference share funding transactions, as well as acquisition finance, property finance and leveraged finance (particularly LBOs, both as adviser to senior and mezzanine funders) for more than a decade in South Africa and further afield. She is an admitted attorney in South Africa and enrolled with the Legal Practice Council, South Africa and is a member of the International Bar Association’s Banking Law Committee.
and syndicated lending and particularly in relation to preference share funding and leveraged finance. She applies this expertise in her current designation as Bowmans’ knowledge lawyer in the finance practice. In addition to transactional banking experience, Alison has worked at one of South Africa’s largest asset managers as in-house counsel. She has lived and worked in South Africa and England and is admitted as an attorney enrolled with the Legal Practice Council, South Africa.
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