Herbert Smith Freehills LLP

Ross is a partner in the Projects, Energy and Infrastructure department in the Johannesburg office. His practice focuses on M&A (largely private sector) and general corporate work. He is a leading corporate lawyer in South Africa with 20 years of experience acting for well-known local and international mining, commercial and industrial companies with a particular focus on the energy sector. Ross represents a wide range of clients including listed and unlisted South African corporates and multinational corporations. He has acted for clients in all sectors with a recent focus on Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) transactions and transactions in the renewable energy, mining and telecommunications sectors. Ross also specialises in the corporate components of project work. He has advised on approximately 40 renewable energy projects under the auspices of the South African Renewable Energy Independent Power Programme (REIPP). Ross also assists clients with investigations, complaints and charges initiated by regulatory bodies such as the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), Competition Commission and the Financial Services Conduct Authority (FSCA). He has dealt with offences such as insider trading, market manipulation, trading in closed periods and price fixing. Ross provides corporate support on commercial litigation matters relating to, amongst others, disputes arising from allegations of breach of contract and breaches of the Companies Act.

Rudolph is a Partner in the Corporate Practice in the Herbert Smith Freehills Johannesburg Office. He is an experienced Corporate and M&A lawyer specialising in private and public M&A and equity capital raising transactions. Rudolph is a well-established and respected practitioner in the South African M&A market. Having practised for more than 25 years, he has seen a split between domestic work for South African clients, work for multinationals investing in South Africa and Sub-Saharan work for domestic and multinational clients. Rudolph advises a number of JSE listed companies on corporate governance and the South African Companies Act. Rudolph specialises in private and public M&A and equity capital raising transactions. He advises corporates, banks and private capital investors. He also has particular expertise in cross-border M&A transactions and regularly advises foreign companies on investment in South Africa.