Clem Daniel

Clem has practiced continuously as a lawyer for more than twenty years and was a partner at both his previous law firms. He joined Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr in 2010 as a Director.

• Establishing various private equity funds, including catalyst black economic empowerment funds.

• Acting extensively in acquisition transactions in the African sphere, including structuring and implementing acquisition structures subsequently widely used as model in other transactions and acting as the lead for one of the parties in a ZAR 90bn private equity acquisition.

• Acting as lead counsel in multiple black economic empowerment transactions for various clients.

• Acting as counsel in major acquisitions between listed companies.

• Acting as lead counsel in relation to complex and high value licensing arrangements and related acquisitions, as well as a number of complex group restructures.

• Acting as lead legal strategist in various complex shareholder and director related disputes as well as non-litigious dispute resolution.

• Building outsourcing models for both the private and public sector environments which nearly a decade later are still in use by both private and public sector entities.

• Acting as lead counsel in negotiating a major Africa wide joint-venture arrangement between and NYSE listed organisation and an African retail multinational.