Dane Kruger

Dane joined Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr as a Candidate Attorney in 2016. Dane was appointed Senior Associate in 2021 and was promoted to Director in 2022.

• Advising on mergers and acquisitions in the listed and unlisted space, including advice on commercial issues, company law and regulatory considerations, negotiating terms of agreement and drafting and reviewing commercial agreements.

• Advising on various corporate actions including capital raises, share buy-backs, corporate restructuring, portfolio restructuring and rights offers.

• Advising on various listings on the JSE, primarily in the property sector, including drafting and reviewing circulars, pre-listing statements and prospectuses.

• Advising on capital raising primarily in the equity capital markets, including initial public offerings, secondary offerings, rights offers.

• Advising clients in the listed space with reference to the JSE Listings Requirements and Financial Markets Act in respect of dealings, related party transactions, categorizable transactions, insider trading and dissemination of price sensitive information.

• Drafting share incentive schemes of South African and foreign companies compliant with the JSE Listings Requirements, the Companies Act, the National Credit Act and the Income Tax Act (where applicable).

• Forming part of multi-national legal teams on cross-border transactions, working with investment banks, financial institutions, bookrunners and JSE sponsors.

• Co-lead legal advisor to OMPE in relation to the disposal of its investment in Chill Beverages and Inhle Beverages business.

• Principal legal advisor to Investec Property Fund Limited in relation to the internalisation of its externalised management function.

• Principal advisor to both SA Corporate Real Estate Limited and Indluplace Properties Limited in relation to the acquisition and delisting of Indluplace.

• Principal legal advisor to the South African management team of M&C Saatchi in respect of the management buy-out of the M&C Saatchi Abel business.

• Co-lead legal advisor to OMPE in relation to the disposal of its investment in Chill Beverages and Inhle Beverages business.

• Principal legal advisor to Investec Property Fund Limited in relation to the internalisation of its externalised management function.

• Principal advisor to both SA Corporate Real Estate Limited and Indluplace Properties Limited in relation to the acquisition and delisting of Indluplace.

• Principal legal advisor to ROX Equity Partners in relation to take-private of Silverbridge Holdings Limited.

• Principal legal advisor to OMPE in relation to take-private of Long4Life Limited and advice in relation to group restructure of Long4Life Limited post-delisting.

• Principal legal advisor to Alula Health Limited in respect of acquisition of BIS Solutions Pty Ltd.

• Advised on takeover of Distell Group Holdings Limited by Heineken BV.

• Principal legal advisor to Hollywoodbets and GMB Investments in respect of the acquisition of Kenilworth Racing Proprietary Limited.

• Principal legal advisor and to Arrowhead Properties Limited on merger with Fairvest Property Holdings Limited.

• Principal legal advisor to Pulsent PH Pty Ltd in relation to the B-BBEE transaction implemented in respect of PBT Group Limited.

• Principal legal advisor to Tower Property Fund Limited on take-private transaction with RDC Properties Limited.

• Principal legal advisor to Atlantic Leaf Properties Limited (a JSE inwardly listed property fund, domiciled in Jersey and tax resident in the UK) on the public to private transaction by Apollo European Principal Finance Funds and delisting of ALP Limited from JSE.

• Principal legal advisor to the Arrowhead Properties Limited on the reverse takeover of Gemgrow Properties Limited.

• Principal legal advisor to Mazor on the public to private general offer transaction in terms of which Mazor was delisted from the JSE.

• Advised on merger of NEPI and Rockcastle Global Real Estate Company Limited into NEPI Rockcastle, and the listing of NEPI Rockcastle shares on the JSE.

• Advised on Vukile Property Fund disposal of non-core office portfolio to AWCA Investment Holdings.

• Advised Striata Group on the sale of its entire business to Doxim Group in multi-jurisdictional asset sale.

• Advised Distell Group Limited on the restructuring of its multi-tiered ownership structure, and the listing of new Distell on the JSE.

• The Legal 500 EMEA 2024 - 2025 recommended Dane commercial, corporate/M&A.