Director
Ayanda Mhlongo is a Director in our Corporate & Commercial practice. He focuses on general corporate commercial matters, corporate structuring and restructuring, company law and regulatory advisory work, as well as mergers and acquisitions. He also has experience in the drafting of a broad range of commercial agreements, advising on the corporate aspects of renewable energy projects and regulatory and commercial work in the liquor industry.
Ayanda completed his articles and worked at ENS Africa from 2009 to 2014, where he was a Senior Associate in the corporate commercial team, before he joined a large consumer goods company as in-house counsel, advising the commercial, marketing, innovation, corporate relations and supply chain teams. He subsequently moved back into practice at Norton Rose Fulbright as a Senior Associate in the Corporate, Mergers and Acquisitions team.
Ayanda joined Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr as a Senior Associate in 2017. Ayanda was appointed Director in April 2018.