Laura Alexander

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Director

Johannesburg

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Laura Alexander is a Director and advises in the Banking & Finance and Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions practice areas. She specialises in various aspects of banking and finance 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. She also has experience in various aspects of merger & acquisition transactions including structuring, shareholder arrangements, management participation and broad-based black economic empowerment structures.

Banking & Finance
Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions

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 | 2022

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