profile for don allaway - partner

Natal Law Certificate (1969)

Don Allaway is a partner in the firm's Corporate Department, where he has practised since joining the firm in 2000. Prior to that, he practised in Durban for many years as a Corporate Lawyer.

Matters in which Don has represented clients are the transfer of the Professional Provident Society's insurance business to a Life Insurance Company, participation in the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor Project, Idion, in its successful defence of a hostile take-over bid initiated by Datamirror, a Canadian Company and Old Mutual (South Africa) Limited in the sale of its health-care administration subsidiary and the acquisition by it of an insurance company.

Don represented Hilton in the development of the hotels it manages in Durban and Sandton and Singita in a number of transactions, including the sale of a portion of its financial interests in the holding company of Singita Lebombo to Dubai World Africa.

In property development, Don acted for the owners in the initial Land Assembly for the Point Waterfront Development in Durban, the development of the Zimbali Coastal Forest Estate and for Richard Maponya in the development of the Maponya Mall in Soweto, as well as for Bowman Gilfillan in respect of its own office accommodation in Sandton.

Don is a fellow of the Society of Arbitrators and has lectured extensively at the invitation of professional organisations including the International Bar Association, the Association of Law Societies and to Accountants, Architects, Engineers and Quantity Surveyors.

Practice Focus
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Commercial and Industrial Property Development
• Hotel and Resort Development
• Insurance Law
• Inter Vivos Trust Law

Areas of Practice

Corporate

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