| • | Experience in African countries including as member of the South African Airways negotiating team bidding for a strategic equity stake in Kenya Airways and Ugandan Airlines |
| • | Acted as the South African legal counsel to Alliance Air and Alliance Express in respect of their Y2K projects |
| • | Project-managed the restructuring, corporatisation and partial privatisation of South African Airways and coordinated all the legal work on this complex transaction covering all aspects of corporate and commercial law |
| • | Extensively involved in due diligence work as either team leader or team leader of the legal workstream on several major M&A transactions including the FirstRand/Rand Merchant Bank merger, Gensec/Sanlam Asset Management merger and the South African Airways/Swissair transaction |
| • | Acted as legal advisor to the airline industry and South African Government in respect of the development and implementation of a new international treaty dealing with the acquisition and financing of high value mobile equipment (Unidroit Convention), which has as its primary objective the securitisation of interests in high value mobile equipment such as aircraft, railway rolling stock, space property, telecommunications equipment, ships and vessels and oil rigs |
| • | Acted as legal advisor to the airline industry and South African Government in respect of the development and implementation of a new international treaty (Montreal Convention) dealing with the updating of the airline passenger liability system (Warsaw Convention) |
| • | Acted as lead attorney to the South African Government and Transnet Ltd in relation to the disposal of Transnet's interest in Mobile Telephone Network (MTN), a mobile telephony company listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange |
| • | Acted as lead attorney to Government on several public-private partnerships including the Chapman's Peak Drive toll road project, Department of Environmental Affairs polar ship project and Department of Land Affairs head office building project, which work involved the legal aspects of the feasibility study, due diligence, options analysis, risk analysis, funding issues, bid evaluation, and drafting and negotiation of transaction agreements including concession agreements and finance agreements |
| • | Acted as lead attorney to the South African Government and Transnet Ltd in relation to the disposal of the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront development in Cape Town |
| • | Acted for the V&A Waterfront company in relation to several hotel development and building projects including the new BP Head Office Building and Kerzner One&Only Hotel including drafting and negotiating various transaction agreements such as commercial leases and development agreements |
| • | Acted for the owners/management of Protea Hotels in relation to the disposal of their interests in the company to an Australian investor |
| • | Acted for Protea Hotels in relation to several new hotel projects, which included drafting and negotiating various transaction agreements such as shareholders agreements, commercial leases and development agreements |
| • | Acted for Istithmar PJSC, Leisurecorp LLC and Dubai World Group in relation to several of their investments in South Africa and elsewhere in Africa including the acquisition of Pearl Valley Golf Estates and several private game reserves in South Africa (Shamwari, Jock of the Bushveld, Sanbona and Nkomazi Wilderness), and various acquisitions in Comores, Rwanda, Mozambique, Zanzibar and Djibouti |
