Callie-Jo Bouman

• Advising Sanlam Life Insurance, Sanlam Personal Loans, SPL Services and Tyme Bank on the establishment of a joint venture focused on unsecured personal loans with an embedded credit life offering, providing cross-selling opportunities between the entities' complementary customer bases in South Africa.
• Advising Cell C Holdings on 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. The offer was made into the United States in reliance on Rule 144A under the US Securities Act.
• Advising Capital Apartments and Hotel Group on the 22-step internal corporate restructure of its group to consolidate all the group's properties in a single entity and the conclusion of triple-net lease agreements between the property company and hotel operating companies. This was followed by the sale of 49.9% of the issued shares in its property holding company to the Government Employees Pension Fund, represented by the Public Investment Corporation.
• Advising in2food Holdings Proprietary Limited on the vendor due diligence and disposal of 100% of its issued shares to Woolworths Proprietary Limited. The multidisciplinary due diligence exercise covered corporate, B-BBEE, immovable property, consumer protection, product liability and insurance matters.
• Advising CoMind Technologies, a life sciences company focusing on the development of innovative neuromonitoring devices and neural interfaces on the Series B venture capital investment round. The transaction documents were based on the relevant British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (now UK Private Capital) documents and agreed term sheet.
• Advising Shell Foundation and other lenders on a convertible loan investment into an African marketplace start-up incorporated in England, including negotiating conversion and repayment terms, acceleration and exit events and lenders' rights being broadly equivalent to shareholder rights with reserved matters.
• Advising Scania Invest AB, a corporate venture arm of the Swedish commercial vehicles manufacturer, being Scania Group’s venture capital fund, in connection with its GBP400,000 minority investment in Nyobolt Limited, a pioneer in high-power, fast-charging lithium-ion battery solutions.
• Advising A renewable energy service provider with group companies across South Africa, Mauritius, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and Namibia for purposes of selling its entire issued share capital from its current shareholders to a third-party purchaser.
• Advising Bluebeam, part of the Nemetschek Group, a global provider of software solutions for the AEC/O and media industries, on the acquisition of GoCanvas Holdings, Inc. and GoCanvas TopCo, LLC, a provider of field worker collaboration software that digitises traditionally paper-based processes, simplifies inspections, improves safety and maximises compliance.
• Advising nCino (as South African local counsel), a leading global financial technology company, on the USD75m acquisition of DocFox, a global end-to-end software solution and onboarding service provider for commercial and business banks.
• Advising Helderberg Mountain Vineyards on the structuring of a proof of concept joint venture with Rooimeester Beverage Company to develop and commercialise a rooibos-infused alcoholic digestif beverage marketed under the "Rooimeester" brand.
• Advising A global leader in environmental and advisory solutions on its acquisition of a multi-jurisdictional emerging market ESG and sustainable finance advisory business with subsidiaries across South Africa, Kenya, Singapore, Hong Kong, France, Morocco and Egypt.

• DealMakers: "Pending litigation and SA M&A transactions Navigating due diligence, valuation and risk allocation", Callie-Jo Bouman and Lemont Shondlani, 66 – 68
• ITechLaw Startup Legal Playbook, A Quick Reference Guide to International Market Entry for Startups (and their Lawyers), Fourth Edition 2026, contributing to the artificial intelligence (AI) sections, addressing the regulatory landscape, sector-specific considerations, ethical frameworks and emerging global trends in AI
• Opportunity Magazine: “The New Petroleum Bill: Will it Retain and Attract Investors in the Sector?”, Nonkululeko Zondo and Callie Jo Bouman, 30-31
• Debevoise Authors UN Commissioned Report “UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights at 10”

* Denotes experience from a previous firm.