profile for charles valkin - partner

B Comm LLB (University of the Witwatersrand), H Dip Tax (University of the Witwatersrand)

Charles Valkin is the most senior partner in our firm’s Corporate, Commercial and Financial services department. He has extensive experience in M and A and financing transactions. Chambers and Partners has regularly ranked him as one of South Africa’s foremost corporate/M and A and banking and finance lawyers. Charles has been the lead lawyer in some of the largest transactions in which our firm has acted as legal advisors. These include the acquisition by SBC Communications and Telkom Malaysia shareholding in Telkom SA from the South African government ($1.5 billion); the merger of Gencor and GFSA gold assets to form the second largest South African gold company, Goldfields Limited; acquisition by Acerinox of Highveld Steel from Anglo-American (R3 billion); merger of Harmony and Armgold (R5.8 billion); merger of ARMI/Avmin/Harmony non-gold assets (R10.8 billion); financing of Uthingo National Lottery by Standard Bank; Deutsche Bank and Standard Bank project financing of the Target gold mine (R1.1 billion). He has recently retired as a director of Reunert Limited and Telkom SA Limited. He is also the relationship partner in the firm for General Motors, Colgate-Palmolive, IPG and ATandT.

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