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Banking & Finance in South Africa

Unique. Powerful. Enduring.

As we celebrate our 60th anniversary, we look back at the unique journey that shaped us into a passionately and truly global Firm.

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Our Banking & Finance team is a legal innovator in the market, drawing on local and international experience in banking and finance law, customs and regulations. We helped structure and execute numerous unprecedented domestic and cross-border deals, including the first collateralized debt obligations in South Africa.

We offer a full range of services in the most complex and demanding areas of financing related work and bring to bear extensive experience across a broad range of industries. We regularly advise public and private players, including financial institutions acting as arrangers, agents, lenders or investors in African based loans.

Costly lessons in M&A compliance Emerging markets offer foreign investors higher returns on their mergers and acquisitions. Yet they are also riskier places to do business. How do buyers reap the benefits of these deals while minimizing compliance exposure?		Derivative transaction reporting ASIC recently released CP 205 Derivative transaction reporting as part of the G20 commitment to improve transparency, mitigate systemic risk and protect against market abuse of OTC derivative transactions. ASIC has issued draft Reporting Rules with CP 205 for comment by 1 May 2013. This is of particular interest to service providers, financial institutions, end users, and prospective operators of trade repositories.		Compliance Kompakt Our German lawyers provide updates on the latest compliance trends in this newsletter.
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Every day our more than 4,000 lawyers, economists, tax advisors and other professionals share insights and best practices across borders and practices. We speak more than 75 languages and represent more than 55 nationalities, and the close relationships among our people fosters the trust needed to develop and deliver world-class solutions to multinational clients.

We share an uncompromising commitment to excellence, which explains why more of our lawyers are included as leading lawyers in the Chambers Global Guide to the World’s Best Lawyers than any other Global 20 law firm.

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We are passionately global — it's in our DNA.

We started with a vision of going global and were in eight countries before our 10th anniversary. Today we have 73 offices in 46 countries -- including the emerging markets so important to the growth of your business.


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