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Werksmans Attorneys

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The ‘responsive and helpful’ team at Werksmans Attorneys continues to handle a high volume of complex takeovers and corporate transactions. Kevin Trudgeon heads up the practice and counts high-profile M&A deals, corporate finance, and private equity as key areas of strength. David Gewer regularly acts for mining clients, and Roelof Bonnet advises construction, technology, and manufacturing sector entities on private equity matters. Banking and finance expert Lureshan Naidoo handles corporate restructurings, joint ventures, and M&A matters.

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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • 'The advice was relevant, practical, and solution driven.'
  • 'The team was extremely responsive, meticulous, commercial, continuously looking for solutions to challenges and great value for money.'
  • 'David Gewer and Adam Pyzikowski were excellent attorneys.'
  • 'David Gewer is commercial, practical, and insightful.'
  • 'Bafana Ntuli is always willing to go the extra mile. He is hard working, diligent, and meticulous.'

Key clients

  • Sasfin Holdings Limited
  • Vivo Energy Investments B.V.
  • Textainer Group Holdings Limited
  • Wheaton Precious Metals Corporation
  • Life Healthcare Group Limited
  • Pepkor Holdings Limited
  • Ibex Investment Holdings Limited
  • Dutoit Agri Proprietary Limited
  • Lesaka Technologies Inc.
  • RMB Corvest
  • D Capital Fund 1 Proprietary Limited
  • Vantage Capital Group Proprietary Limited
  • Link Africa Proprietary Limited

Work highlights

  • Advised Life Healthcare Group Limited on the disposal of Alliance Medical Group to ICON Infrastructure Partners VI, LP.
  • Advising Sasfin Holdings Limited via its wholly owned subsidiary, Sasfin Bank Limited on SBL's disposal of its capital equipment finance and commercial property finance businesses to African Bank Limited.

Lawyers

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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Kevin Trudgeon

Other key lawyers

Elliott Wood, Lureshan Naidoo, Roelof Bonnet, Adam Pyzikowski, David Gewer, Bafana Ntuli, Tiyana Ramchunder