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Cyprian Mthembu

Senior Associate

Location: Johannesburg

Tel: +27 11 535 8421

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Email: cmthembu@werksmans.com

ABOUT

Cyprian Mthembu is a Senior Associate in the Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions practice area. He specialises in mergers and acquisitions, the formation, structuring and restructuring of business entities and due diligence investigations.

  • Banking & Finance
  • Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Private Equity
  • Technology & Innovation
  • Mergers and acquisitions,
  • Formation, structuring and restructuring of business entities
  • Due diligence investigations.

 

  • Member of the team that advised Net1 on the acquisition of a 100% shareholding in the Connect Group for an aggregate consideration of ZAR 3.7 billion.  
  • Member of the team that advised Agile Capital and its BEE consortium partner in their acquisition of interest in the Spill Tech group as part of Spill Tech's BEE transaction pursuant to the acquisition of the Spill Tech group by Séché Environment.
  • Member of the team that advised Sanofi on the restructure of its South African pharmaceutical operations which formed part of Sanofi's global restructure.
  • Member of the team that advised Net1 on the disposal of its remaining interest in Bank Frick & Co to the Kuno Frick Family Foundation for a consideration of USD 30 million.
  • Member of the team that advised Paper Plane Ventures on the disposal of its shareholding in Centbee, a Johannesburg-based Bitcoin SV (BSV) wallet and merchant payment company, to Dutch venture capital company Two Hop Ventures.
  • Member of the team that advised DN Invest on its acquisition of Blue Label Mobile Group from Blue Label Telecoms for a consideration of ZAR 530 million.
  • Member of the team that advised Net1 on its disposal of a 34% shareholding in DN Invest, in the form of a share repurchase and a sale to Mineworkers Investment Company for an aggregate consideration of ZAR 860 million.
  • Member of the team that advised Net1 on the disposal of its 100% shareholding in Net1 Fihrst to Transaction Capital for a consideration of ZAR 180 million.
  • Member of the team that advised Matasis Investment Holdings in its acquisition of an interest in the South African affiliate of Worley, a global organisation of consultants, engineers, construction workers and data scientists specialising in the energy, chemicals and resources sectors.
  • Member of the team which advised Agile Capital in its acquisition of an interest in Averge Technologies, a specialist solutions provider and distributor of components specific to both the communications industry and the energy sector, from the founder of the company.
  • LLB, University of Zululand, 2017
  • Year of admission as an attorney: 2021
  • Enrolled with the Legal Practice Council