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Sibusiso Shabalala

Sibusiso Shabalala

He/himAssociate
Johannesburg
About

Sibusiso has experience in a broad range of banking and corporate finance transactions, including leveraged finance, debt restructuring, public finance and related security structures, with additional exposure to debt capital markets. Sibusiso acts for both lenders and borrowers and has experience in acting for entities (listed and non-listed) in both the private and public sectors.

Areas of FocusFinanceProjects and Project FinanceRestructuring
Professional QualificationsAttorney of the High Court of South Africa

EXPERIENCE

  • Advising a major South African bank in relation to drafting a ZAR300m term loan facility and the associated security arrangements.
  • Advising a mining consortium on the associated security arrangements in relation to the ZAR4bn debt and equity funding acquisition of equity in a leading fully integrated platinum group metals producer.
  • Advising an issuer in relation to a USD5m equity funding transaction in relation to an ordinary and preference share transaction.
  • Advising a listed state-owned entity in relation to a comprehensive due diligence and review of the existing debt and equity funding arrangements in excess of ZAR8bn, with a listed borrower/issuer in view of a proposed debt and equity restructuring of the borrower/issuer.
  • Advising a listed state-owned entity in the issuance of notes amounting, in aggregate, to over ZAR1bn under a ZAR30bn Domestic Medium Term Note Programme.
  • Part of a team appointed as legal advisors to a listed in the updating and subsequent issuance of notes amounting, in aggregate, to over ZAR2bn under a ZAR15bn Domestic Medium Term Note Programme.
Languages
  • English
  • isiZulu
Education
  • University of the Witwatersrand, LLB, 2020

  • University of the Witwatersrand, BCom Law, 2018

Connect

Phone

+27 11 302 0856
(Work, Johannesburg)
+27 66 020 0151
(Mobile, Johannesburg)
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