Laura Alexander

Expertise:

• All aspects of merger and acquisition transactions involving both listed and private companies, including structuring advice, shareholder arrangements, management participation and broad based economic empowerment structures.
• All aspects of banking and finance transactions including asset finance, acquisition and leveraged finance, preference share transactions and corporate debt restructure, acting variously for lenders (in both the single lender and in the syndicated lender environment) and borrowers.

Advises on:

• Banking and finance
• Corporate Mergers and acquisitions
• Corporate debt restructuring
• Preference share transactions
• Syndicated funding
• Cross border funding
• Leveraged and structured finance
• Property finance

• LLB (University of Pretoria);
• 2016: Associate, Werksmans;
• 2019: Senior Associate, Werksmans;
• 2021: Director, Werksmans

• Ranked as a recommended lawyer by Legal 500 | Banking & Finance | 2024
• Ranked as a highly regarded practitioner by IFLR 1000 | Banking & Finance | 2022 & 2024