Subsidiary legal teams don’t lose control in a single moment. They lose it incrementally, through what accumulates into an exception spiral – a pattern that starts with reasonable flexibility and ends with a function where nobody can confidently state what the company’s standard position actually is. The spiral starts with individual decisions that each make […]
South African municipalities are under growing pressure to diversify their electricity supply. The policy conversation has shifted. The regulatory framework is opening up. Third-party generation, licensed traders and wheeling arrangements are increasingly part of the plan. But for energy players working in or around this space – IPPs, traders, development finance institutions, infrastructure consultancies and
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When teams say “Legal is slow,” it’s rarely because lawyers don’t know what they’re doing. It’s because contract work is high-volume and high-friction: documents arrive through long email chains and get separated from context and attachments, templates are inconsistent and vary by team, region or “who last sent the document”, schedules are incomplete and annexures
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Great companies get discounted – or delayed- because ownership is unclear. If your cap table is a patchwork of SAFEs, convertibles, side letters, and undocumented promises, buyers assume pain and price for it. A cap table detox is the cheapest way to protect value before an LOI. 1) Collect every instrument—no exceptionsPull term sheets, signed
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South Africa’s energy pipeline is not short of ambition, capital, or need. What it is short of is projects that make it from heads of terms to financial close without losing six to eighteen months to problems that were visible – and unresolved – from the start. The issues that break deals in this market
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Investors doing regular deals in South Africa and across the region know the pattern: once the acquisition closes, the legal workload doesn’t reduce — it multiplies. And unlike the transaction legal work, which is scoped, budgeted, and managed, the post-close portfolio legal work tends to be reactive, unstructured, and expensive in ways that are difficult
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Founders preparing for an exit tend to focus on the same thing: valuation. What the business is worth, what multiple is achievable, what comparable transactions look like. But the founders who consistently achieve the valuations they believe their businesses deserve understand something that takes most people one deal to learn. Buyers don’t just pay for
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Most South African energy deals don’t collapse because the power isn’t needed. They stall because three practical workstreams are treated as afterthoughts: land, grid lines, and licences and approvals. When those are vague, everyone ends up negotiating in the dark – and by the time reality catches up, timelines, budgets, and sometimes the deal itself
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Investors who do regular deals know something that first-time buyers learn the hard way: the legal work doesn’t stop at signing – it often starts there. But the legal complexity in a well-run fund operates at two levels that require different thinking. There’s the fund level – formation, LP relationships, carry structures, regulatory compliance, and
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Founders often assume the exit process is about one thing: valuation. But buyers rarely discount because they dislike the product or the market. They discount when they can’t see the business clearly enough to trust what they’re buying – and when they find surprises mid-diligence, they don’t just adjust the price. They slow down, add
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