Banking Law Attorney

The diversity of the Webber Wentzel law firm allows for high quality services and contributes to the vision to become the corporate legal attorney of choice for any company doing business in South Africa. Webber Wentzel was founded 140 years ago and has seen and adapted to the many changes to become a truly South African law firm able to meet the diverse challenges of experience, perspective and backgrounds of employees and stakeholders. Webber Wentzel is able to provide a banking law attorney for clients together with attorneys fully versed in a wide range of legal practice including black economic employment, intellectual property, Constitution and Administration law, pension funds, tax litigation, forensic investigations Insurance and legal liability cases , Public Law, international trade and many more.

Several of Webber Wentzel banking law attorney practitioners are English law qualified or have practiced with noted London law firms. Webber Wentzel is an associate member of the Loan Market Association (LMA), which is based in the UK and places emphasis on standardization of documents and endeavors to ensure that its facility and related agreements are LMA based, South African law compliant documents. This approach allows liquidity and savings of transaction costs for Webber Wentzel banking law attorney practitioner's clients. Additionally, it ensures that the banking law attorney's clients in the local finance community benefit from international experience. Webber Wentzel 's Banking and Finance Practice Group engages the services of experienced banking law attorney practitioners who advise most of the leading South African banks and numerous local institutions who participate in senior and mezzanine financings.

The banking law attorney practitioners of Webber Wentzel have established solid relationships with international law firms practicing in the areas of banking and finance, including London and New York City based firms, and regularly act as local counsel in relation to offshore financings which involve a South African component. The banking law attorney practitioners of the Banking and Finance Practice Group established by Webber Wentzel specialize in the general banking and finance area of General Corporate Credits and advise lenders and corporate borrowers on bilateral and syndicated facilities. This service includes the full spectrum of secured and unsecured corporate credits and often involve multiple borrower/guarantor structures and different combinations of facilities. The banking law attorney of Webber Wentzel handles mezzanine financing and advises local and offshore mezzanine funds and institutions on European style mezzanine financings and US high yield bond financings. The Webber Wentzel banking law attorney practitioners also offer their specialized services for Structured and Asset Financing, counseling financiers and borrowers on structured loan and lease financing for various asset classes, particularly aircraft, rolling stock and capital equipment for mines. In the field of Commodity Finance, the banking law attorney will advise on financing transactions for such commodities as lending or consignment structures for gold and platinum group metals as well as grain financing transactions. Webber Wentzel regularly advises on preference share finance and convertible loan finance transactions and sees significant activity in these areas in the leveraged finance sector and the savings and investment product industry.