profile for anton barnes-webb - partner

B Com and LLB (University of Stellenbosch);
LLM (Cambridge University)

Anton Barnes-Webb is a partner in Bowman Gilfillan’s Corporate Department and is the head of the firm’s Project Finance and Infrastructure practice area. He specialises in project and other financing transactions and mergers and acquisitions.

In the Project Finance field Anton has been involved in a number of projects, advising lenders in some transactions, and borrowers in other transactions. Recent examples are leading the team which advised Rand Merchant Bank and Standard Bank in their financing of the Gautrain Rapid-Rail Link project and advising Eskom on financing for its new coal-fired power station being constructed at Medupi.
In the Mergers and Acquisitions area Anton has recently advised Sappi on its $1.83 billion acquisition of paper-mill and associated businesses in Europe from M-Real Corporation and on the international rights offer to raise €450 million made by Sappi shortly after that to raise funding required for that acquisition. Anton has also advised a range of multi national and local companies in various other merger and acquisition transactions.

An increasing amount of his work has involved acting in financing transactions in several jurisdictions in Africa outside of South Africa, including Mozambique, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, Zambia, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Lesotho.

Areas of Practice

Corporate

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