Roxanna Valayathum

Roxanna began her career as a Candidate Attorney at Tabacks in 2010 and was retained as an Associate in 2012. Roxanna joined Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr as a Senior Associate in 2015 and was appointed as a Director in 2018.

• Advised Sanofi-Aventis South Africa Proprietary Limited in the sale by Sanofi-Aventis South Africa Proprietary Limited of its entire shareholding in Opella Healthcare South Proprietary Limited, which housed its South Africa based consumer healthcare unit and CHOICE range of products, to CFAO Société Anonyme.

• Advised and provided legal support to the Industrial Development Corporation in implementing, as part of the Presidential Employment Stimulus, its award-winning Social Employment Fund project that created over 100,000 job opportunities as part of its mandate to advance sustainable job creation throughout communities in South Africa.

• Advised an ICT company in the acquisition of the entire issued share capital of a cloud solutions and consulting services company.

• Advised a petroleum company in relation to its retail operations in South Africa.

• Advised Zambezi Platinum (RF) Limited on the acceleration of the maturity of the empowerment transaction concluded between Northam Platinum Limited and Zambezi Platinum (RF) Limited in May 2015.

• Advised Capitalworks, a private equity fund, in relation to its take private offer in respect of the Peregrine Group, a financial services group listed on the JSE and the A2X.

• Assisted with the spin off by Pfizer Incorporated of its Upjohn Business into a separate subsidiary for the purposes of the merger thereof with Mylan N.V. to form Viatris Incorporated.

• Advised South African corporate law aspects of the restructure of a multinational French pharmaceutical company.

• Advised ArcelorMittal South Africa Limited in its acquisition of the Highveld Structural Mill from Evraz Highveld Steel and Vanadium (in business rescue).

• Advised JCDecaux on a number of matters, including; the restructure of its operations in Nigeria; and the acquisition by JCDecaux of shares in an advertising company operating in South Africa.

• Advised Caixa Geral de Depósitos, S.A. in the disposal of its entire shareholding in Mercantile Bank Holdings Limited to Capitec Bank Limited and in the establishment thereafter of Caixa Geral de Depósitos, S.A's branch office in South Africa.

• Advised Sage Pay Proprietary Limited in the divestment of a business division.

• Advised a multinational cosmetics company in establishing operations in Swaziland, Lesotho, Botswana and Kenya.

• Advised MultiChoice Africa Limited, in the restructure of its operations across 42 jurisdictions in Africa.

• Advised FAAC S.p.A, the sole shareholder of Zeag SA Proprietary Limited, in the acquisition by Zeag SA of the entire issued share capital of Centurion Systems Proprietary Limited.

• Advised Safika Cement Holdings (Pty) Ltd in respect of the acquisition by PPC Ltd of a 69.3% interest in Safika Cement Holdings (Pty) Ltd.

• Advised Maragon Private Schools Ruimsig Proprietary Limited in respect of the acquisition by RMB Corvest of a 49.9% interest in Maragon; and the acquisition by Maragon of the Doxa Deo and Charterhouse schools.

• Advised Capitalworks Investment Partners (Pty) Ltd in respect of its acquisition of the Rosond group of companies.

• The Legal 500 EMEA 2024 - 2025 mentioned Roxanna for Commercial, Corporate/M&A.