Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr

Corporate and Commercial. Projects and Energy.

Tessa is a Director in our Corporate & Commercial practice. Tessa has extensive experience in local and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity, joint ventures and the formation, structuring and restructuring of business entities, commercial of aspects renewable energy projects, large due diligence investigations and she advised on all aspects of South African corporate and commercial law.

Tessa began her career as a Candidate Attorney in 1999 and was appointed as an Associate in 2002. She was the programme manager of the Non-Profit Law Programme at the Non-Profit Consortium from 2003 to 2006. Tessa joined Cliffe Dekker (now Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr) as an Associate in 2007, was promoted to Senior Associate in 2008 and became a Director in 2011. Tessa completed her LLB in Belgium and lived and worked in London prior to commencing articles.

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B Comm LLB, University of Stellenbosch International Legal Studies Certificate, University of Antwerp (Belgium) LLM, Aberdeen University (Scotland) Year of admission as an attorney, notary public and conveyancer: 2001 Registered with the Legal Practice Council