Director:
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Shaun Teichner
Director

Branch: Johannesburg
Tel: +27 (0)11 535 8467
Fax: +27 (0)11 535 8667
Email: steichner@werksmans.com

Main Practice Area

Mergers & Acquisitions

Specialises in:
  • takeovers, mergers and acquisitions in both private and public markets
  • black economic empowerment transactions
  • leveraged and management buy-outs
  • private equity
  • trade deals
  • group restructurings and reorganisations
  • listings/flotations (primary, secondary and inward)
  • public offers/private placements
  • rights offers
  • corporate governance

Career:
LLB (Wits)
LLM (Harvard)
BCom (Wits) (Financial Accounting and Law)

2008: Director, Werksmans

Highlights:
  • Lecturer on Commercial Law at Wits (2004) and Advanced Company Law to the LLM students at Wits (2010)
  • Awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study in the US (2005)
  • Named as an up-and-coming / leading lawyer  in Corporate/M&A by Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business (2011)
  • Named as a leading lawyer in Mergers and Acquisitions by IFLR1000: The Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms (2011)
  • Named as a recommended lawyer in Corporate and M&A by the Legal500 (2010)

Major Clients & Matters:
  • Advised Jinchuan Group Limited and China-Africa Development Fund on their US$227 million transaction with Wesizwe Platinum Limited
  • Advised Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Limited on its R3.4 billion transaction with GlaxoSmithKline plcAdvised Swedish Match AB on its R1.9 billion disposal of Swedish Match (South Africa) (Proprietary) Limited to Philip Morris International
  • Advised British American Tobacco p.l.c. on its unbundling from R&R Holdings S.A. and its R550 billion secondary listing on the JSE
  • Advised Telkom SA Limited on its R22.5 billion disposal of a 15% stake in Vodacom Group (Proprietary) Limited to Vodafone Group Plc and the unbundling and listing of the balance of its stake in Vodacom on the JSE
  • Advised Diamond Core Resources Limited on its R1 billion merger with BRC Diamond Corporation
  • Advised Edgars Consolidated Stores Limited on its R25 billion private equity transaction with Bain Capital
  • Advised Aquarius Platinum Limited on its R800 million black economic empowerment transaction
  • Advised Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Limited on its R659 million black economic empowerment transaction
  • Advised Edgars Consolidated Stores Limited on its R455 million black economic empowerment transaction
  • Advised Liberty Life Limited on its R1.4 billion black economic empowerment transaction