Jenni Darling is a Director in the Banking and Finance practice area
Banking & Finance
Acted for Pepkor Limited and its related subsidiaries in a variety of debt and preference share funding matters.
Acted for the lenders to Bounty Brands Proprietary Limited in relation to a restructuring of the businesses and related debt and quasi-equity.
Acts for a variety of financial institutions and South African banks (including FirstRand Bank Limited, Nedbank Limited, The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited, Investec Bank Limited and ABSA Bank Limited) regularly in relation to the provision of debt and preference share funding to borrowers and issuers.
Acts for a variety of borrowers in various industries in relation to their relevant structuring and debt requirements such as Africa Data Centres Proprietary Limited, Royal Bafokeng Holdings ProprietaryLimited, Liquid Telecommunications Proprietary Limited, Onelogix Limited and others.
Regularly advises Liquid Telecommunications South Africa Limited and related entities (including Africa Data Centres Proprietary Limited) in relation to their funding transactions, which includes the ZAR18 million secured Euro bond, funding facilities relating to the roll out of both lit and dark fibre in project finance facilities (circa R3 billion) and acquisition funding for a variety of purposes.
Advising a syndicate of South African financial institutions in relation to the refinancing of VumatelProprietaryLimited and Dark Fibre Africa ProprietaryLimited's debt (circa ZAR26 billion).
Advising financial institutions in relation to various funding instruments to a variety of telecommunications service providers (such as Vodacom Proprietary Limited and Comsol NetworksProprietary Limited).
Admitted as an attorney, 2014
BAccLLB, Stellenbosch, 2010
Chambers Global 2025 ranked Jenni in Band 3 for Banking & Finance.
Chambers Global 2021 - 2024 ranked Jenni in Band 4 for Banking & Finance.
Chambers Global 2019 - 2020 Jenni was ranked as 'Up & Coming' in Banking & Finance.
The Legal 500 EMEA 2020 - 2022, 2024 recommended Jenni for banking and finance.
Ranked as Leading Partner by The Legal 500 | 2025
IFLR 1000 2022 & 2024 ranked Jenni as highly regarded leading lawyer for Banking and Project Finance.
Johannesburg 
+27 11 535 8396 
