Mergers & Acquisitions Services
We close deals effectively by providing exceptional legal advice, managing risk, ensuring you meet regulatory compliance and working at every aspect of the transaction to ensure that it works from a legal and commercial perspective.
At Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr, we have one of South Africa's largest Corporate and Commercial practices and offer the full suite of services required to deliver strategic legal support on transactional work. We handle hundreds of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions each year.
Since 2008, we have consistently been the most active South African legal adviser and have handled more M&A transactions than any other law firm, according to the leading analyst rankings. Our Corporate team has more than 50 qualified lawyers whose primary responsibility and expertise is transactional work.
Our services include:
- Strategic legal support: We offer commercial and practical advice specific to your goals and objectives and actively manage the M&A process to help bring transactions to an efficient conclusion.
- Practical and effective project management: We offer effective project management, which is crucial to ensuring an efficient and satisfactory conclusion to any M&A transaction.
- Cross-border project management: We have experience in project managing complex multi-jurisdictional corporate activity. When you venture into new markets we are able to help you understand the risks involved, offer advice on the best structure for any given transaction and provide workable solutions.
- Global expertise: We offer experience and insights drawn from countries around the world, so you benefit from a vast amount of international M&A experience.
- Extensive expertise: We offer experience spans a wide range of industries and our clients include local and international listed and unlisted companies as well as emerging businesses, government departments and state-owned enterprises. Our senior deal team has strong experience in pre- and post-deal structuring and integration.
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Mergers & Acquisitions Services
We close deals effectively by providing exceptional legal advice, managing risk, ensuring you meet regulatory compliance and working at every aspect of the transaction to ensure that it works from a legal and commercial perspective.
At Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr, we have one of South Africa's largest Corporate and Commercial practices and offer the full suite of services required to deliver strategic legal support on transactional work. We handle hundreds of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions each year.
Since 2008, we have consistently been the most active South African legal adviser and have handled more M&A transactions than any other law firm, according to the leading analyst rankings. Our Corporate team has more than 50 qualified lawyers whose primary responsibility and expertise is transactional work.
Our services include:
- Strategic legal support: We offer commercial and practical advice specific to your goals and objectives and actively manage the M&A process to help bring transactions to an efficient conclusion.
- Practical and effective project management: We offer effective project management, which is crucial to ensuring an efficient and satisfactory conclusion to any M&A transaction.
- Cross-border project management: We have experience in project managing complex multi-jurisdictional corporate activity. When you venture into new markets we are able to help you understand the risks involved, offer advice on the best structure for any given transaction and provide workable solutions.
- Global expertise: We offer experience and insights drawn from countries around the world, so you benefit from a vast amount of international M&A experience.
- Extensive expertise: We offer experience spans a wide range of industries and our clients include local and international listed and unlisted companies as well as emerging businesses, government departments and state-owned enterprises. Our senior deal team has strong experience in pre- and post-deal structuring and integration.
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Mergers & Acquisitions Lawyers
CDH’s lawyers balance legal knowledge with commercial understanding to support our clients’ best interests.
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Mergers & Acquisitions News
More newsCDH is consistently successful in advising on the most M&A deals in South Africa
Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr (CDH) continues to dominate as one of South Africa’s top M&A legal advisers, according to the Ansarada DealMakers Annual Awards, held at the Sandton Convention Centre on 21 February 2023.
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Recognition
2015-2023
Chambers Global
Chambers Global 2015-2023 rank our Corporate/M&A practice in Band 1.
2018-2023
The Legal 500 EMEA
The Legal 500 EMEA 2018-2023 recognises us as Tier 1 in commercial, corporate/M&A.
2016-2021
IFLR1000
IFLR1000 2017-2021 ranks the firm in M&A - Tier 1. IFLR1000 2016 ranks the firm in M&A - Tier 2.
2022
Dealmakers
- 2022 1st by M&A Listed Deal Flow
- 2022 3rd by M&A Listed Deal Value
- 2022 3rd by M&A Unlisted Deal Value
- 2022 3rd by M&A Unlisted Deal Flow
- 2022 3rd by General Corporate Finance Deal Flow
2021
Dealmakers
- 2021 1st by M&A Deal Flow
- 2021 2nd by General Corporate Finance Deal Flow
- 2021 2nd by BEE Deal Value
- 2021 3rd by General Corporate Finance Deal Value
- 2021 3rd by BEE Deal Flow
- 2021 4th by M&A Deal Value
2020
Dealmakers
- 2020 1st by M&A Deal Flow
- 2020 1st by BEE Deal Flow
- 2020 1st by BEE Deal Value
- 2020 2nd by General Corporate Finance Deal Flow
- 2020 2nd by General Corporate Finance Deal Value
- 2020 3rd by M&A Deal Value
- 2020 Catalyst Private Equity Deal of the Year
Chambers Global
Chambers Global 2015-2023 rank our Corporate/M&A practice in Band 1.
The Legal 500 EMEA
The Legal 500 EMEA 2018-2023 recognises us as Tier 1 in commercial, corporate/M&A.
IFLR1000
IFLR1000 2017-2021 ranks the firm in M&A - Tier 1. IFLR1000 2016 ranks the firm in M&A - Tier 2.
Dealmakers
- 2022 1st by M&A Listed Deal Flow
- 2022 3rd by M&A Listed Deal Value
- 2022 3rd by M&A Unlisted Deal Value
- 2022 3rd by M&A Unlisted Deal Flow
- 2022 3rd by General Corporate Finance Deal Flow
Dealmakers
- 2021 1st by M&A Deal Flow
- 2021 2nd by General Corporate Finance Deal Flow
- 2021 2nd by BEE Deal Value
- 2021 3rd by General Corporate Finance Deal Value
- 2021 3rd by BEE Deal Flow
- 2021 4th by M&A Deal Value
Dealmakers
- 2020 1st by M&A Deal Flow
- 2020 1st by BEE Deal Flow
- 2020 1st by BEE Deal Value
- 2020 2nd by General Corporate Finance Deal Flow
- 2020 2nd by General Corporate Finance Deal Value
- 2020 3rd by M&A Deal Value
- 2020 Catalyst Private Equity Deal of the Year