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Nov 2,2018

IFLR1000 FINANCIAL AND CORPORATE RANKINGS (2019 EDITION) 

IFLR1000 has released its latest rankings which reflects our market standing within the financial and corporate practice areas. This is a sector-specific guide which covers the Sub-Saharan African legal market and bases its annual rankings on both client and peer feedback as well as on analysis of our transactional highlights.

 

The firm was ranked as follows:

  • Banking & Finance: Tier 2
  • Capital Markets: Tier 2
  • Energy: Tier 2
  • Infrastructure: Tier 2
  • M&A: Tier 2
  • Mining: Tier 2
  • Oil & Gas: Tier 2
  • Project Finance: Tier 3

 

The following directors have been individually ranked as “highly regarded” in the following practice areas:

  • Chris Moraitis:
    • Energy and infrastructure
    • Project development
    • Project finance
  • Chris Stevens
    • Energy and infrastructure
    • Project development
  • David Gewer
    • M&A
  • David Hertz
    • Competition
    • Energy and infrastructure
  • Project development
  • David Walker
    • Energy and infrastructure
    • Project development
    • M&A
  • Gerhard Johannes
    • M&A
  • Happy Masondo
    • Energy and infrastructure
  • Project development
  • Jonathan Behr
    • Energy and infrastructure
    • Project finance
  • Kevin Trudgeon
    • Private equity
  • Paul Coetser
    • Competition
  • Petra Krusche
    • Competition
  • Richard Roothman
    • Banking
    • Project finance
    • Capital markets: Debt
    • Capital markets: Structured finance and securitisation

 

The following directors have been individually ranked as “notable practitioners”:

  • Brian Price
    • Capital Markets: Equity, M&A

The following directors have been identified as “rising stars”:

  • Astrid Berman
    • Energy and infrastructure
    • Banking
    • Project Finance
  • Elliot Wood
    • Banking
    • M&A
  • Natalie Scott
    • Banking
  • Tracy-Lee Janse van Rensburg
    • Banking
    • Capital markets: Debt

This brings our total number of ranked individuals to seventeen.

Congratulations to the teams who have contributed to this success and for maintaining a strong presence in this competitive legal space.