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

Banking & Finance Law, Corporate & Commercial Law, Employment Law, Financial Services Law, IP Law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Regulatory & Compliance Law, Shareholder Agreements, Tax Law, Transaction Support Services / loucile@caveat

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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Five Things That Kill a South African Business Sale at Due Diligence (That Were All Fixable Before the Buyer Arrived)

Commercial Law, Corporate & Commercial Law, Employment Law, IP Law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Regulatory & Compliance Law, Shareholder Agreements, Tax Law, Transaction Support Services / loucile@caveat

Most South African business owners who have been through a failed or heavily discounted sale process can point to the moment things went wrong. It is almost never the commercial terms. It is the due diligence findings that nobody anticipated – and that nobody had fixed, because no one had looked. Here are the five

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The SA Deal Reality Check: What Separates Transactions That Close From Those That Don’t

Banking & Finance Law, Competition Law, Corporate & Commercial Law, Employment Law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Regulatory & Compliance Law, Tax Law / loucile@caveat

South African deals don’t become difficult because valuations are ambitious or because the parties can’t agree on price. They become difficult because the transaction runs into execution realities that were visible from the start but never properly resolved – and by the time they surface formally, the investor has leverage they didn’t have at signing

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The Pre-LOI Window: What to Fix Before Buyers Start Asking Questions

Corporate & Commercial Law, Data Protection Law, Employment Law, IP Law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Shareholder Agreements / loucile@caveat

Most founders begin preparing for a sale at the wrong moment. The LOI is signed, the buyer’s advisors are engaged, and suddenly every gap in the business becomes a negotiating point – because the buyer now controls the clock and every issue discovered after LOI is leverage they didn’t have before. The founders who achieve

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The 7 Things That Make an Energy Deal “Bankable” in South Africa (Before Lawyers Even Draft)

Banking & Finance Law, Commercial Law, Public Procurement Law, Regulatory & Compliance Law, Tax Law / loucile@caveat

In South Africa, energy deals don’t fail because everyone disagrees on the vision. They fail because the fundamentals that lenders, boards, and regulators care about aren’t resolved early enough – and by the time lawyers start drafting, those gaps become expensive.These are the seven bankability basics we push to the front of every deal. Each

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