Financial Services Law

The Regulator You Forgot About Is the One That Stops the Deal

Deal teams doing M&A in South Africa are generally well prepared for Competition Commission notification. It is the regulator everyone expects, the one every transaction lawyer raises early, and the one most deal timelines are built around. The regulators that catch teams out are the sector-specific ones – present in a specific transaction, easy to […]

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The Legal Due Diligence Findings That Derail South African PE and VC Deals Most Often

Private equity and venture capital transactions in South Africa move through a predictable sequence: investment thesis, preliminary commercial assessment, indicative terms, and then due diligence. It is in due diligence that deals most often stall, reprice, or collapse – and the findings that cause this are, with notable regularity, things that were knowable before the

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The ‘Clean Run’ Framework: Stop Legal from Killing Deal Momentum at the Worst Possible Time

There are two moments in an investor’s calendar when legal can either accelerate everything or derail it completely: when you’re raising a fund and when you’re exiting a position. These are the highest-stakes, most time-sensitive transactions in the cycle  – and they’re also when legal bottlenecks tend to appear without warning. The problem isn’t that

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