Marita van der Walt

Director
About

Marita specialises in mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, private equity and general commercial work.

Professional QualificationsAttorney of the High Court of South Africa, 2003

EXPERIENCE

  • Advising a Real Foods Proprietary Limited on the disposal of a significant part of its foods business to Virgin Active, as well as on the subscription for shares in Virgin Active.
  • Advising Real Foods, a multi-brand food group based in South Africa on the amalgamation of their Kauai and Nü restaurant chains into the Virgin Active Group.
  • Advising Community Investment Ventures Holdings (CIVH) in respect of: (i) the formation of a new intermediate infrastructure holding company to own its subsidiaries Dark Fibre Africa (DFA) and Vumatel, (ii) the acquisition by DFA and Vumatel of certain infrastructure assets from Vodacom Group; and (iii) the acquisition by Vodacom Group of up to 30% of the shares in the new intermediate holding company in return for a combination of cash and assets.
  • Advising Seacom in respect of its acquisition of certain telecoms assets from EOH.
  • Advising New GX in respect of its investment in Sustainable Power Solutions Investments.
  • Advising CIVH in respect of its acquisition of Vumatel.
  • Advising Remgro Limited in the unbundling of all its shares in RMB Holdings Limited to its shareholders by way of a distribution in specie.
  • Advising Pembani Remgro on the formation of a new African rolling stock company.
  • Advising AFGRI Holdings Proprietary Limited in its successful bid to acquire 99.81% in the South African Bank of Athens from the National Bank of Greece.
  • Advising Rain Networks in respect of an issue of shares to African Rainbow Capital.
  • Advising TMH International LLP in respect of its acquisition of the rolling stock business of DCD Group Proprietary Limited.

*Denotes experience from a previous firm.

Languages
  • English
  • Afrikaans
Education
  • University of Pretoria, BLC, cum laude
  • University of Pretoria, LLB, cum laude,1999

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