Nada Lourens

M&A

• Advising Community Investment Ventures Holdings (CIVH) on the proposed acquisition by the Vodacom Group of a 30% indirect stake in Vumatel and Dark Fibre Africa, valued at approximately R13.2bn.
• Advising AFGRI Holdings (Pty) Ltd on its successful bid to acquire 99.81% of the South African Bank of Athens from National Bank of Greece S.A.
• Advising a major South African bank on a potential acquisition of a mid‑tier South African bank.
• Advising a major South African bank on a potential acquisition of a short‑term insurance business.
• Advising Greywell Ventures on the establishment of an employee share scheme following its acquisition of Tamodi.

Private Equity

• Advising C Cell Holdings on company law and corporate governance aspects of its listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, which was accompanied by a secondary offer by The Pre-Paid Company of ordinary shares in Cell C by way of private placement.
• First National Bank of Eswatini on its listing, by introduction, on the Eswatini Stock Exchange as well as advising its sole shareholder, FirstRand EMA Holdings Proprietary, on the private placement of 20% of the shares in First National Bank of Eswatini with institutional investors.
• Advising EOH Holdings in respect of a R600m capital raise, including a R500m rights issue.

Debt Capital Markets

• Advising Brait Investment Holdings Limited on its invitation to exchangeable bondholders to tender bonds for repurchase for an aggregate repurchase price of ZAR400m

BEE

• Advising Barloworld on the registration of the transaction flowing from the c.USD1bn cash offer from a consortium including the Barloworld CEO and Saudi Arabian-based Zahid Group to acquire all of the issued shares in Barloworld (save for certain excluded shares), by way of scheme of arrangement or standby general offer, as a major BEE transaction with the BEE Commission.
• Advising the FirstRand Ltd group on its BEE broad-based ownership schemes.

Corporate

• Advising OUTsurance Holdings Ltd on its executive share incentive schemes.
• Advising Greywell Ventures on the design and establishment of an employee share scheme linked to the acquisition of Tamodi.
• Advising the FirstRand Group on broad‑based ownership and employee participation schemes.
• Advising the Banking Association of South Africa and its member banks on commercial arrangements concerning Tier 1 cash management.
• Advising C Cell Holdings on corporate governance and company law compliance relating to its JSE listing.