profile for lisa botha - partner

BA and LLB (University of KwaZulu-Natal)

Lisa Botha is a partner in Bowman Gilfillan’s Banking and Finance team and has significant experience of listed debt and equity offerings (including hig-yield bonds, convertible bonds, domestic medium-term note programmes, preference share issues and initial public offerings), the establishment of funds and investment company structures (both Shari’a compliant and conventional), general finance, banking regulatory advice and mergers and acquisitions.

Lisa is admitted as an attorney in South Africa and as a solicitor in England and Wales, and prior to joining Bowman Gilfillan she was a partner at a US law firm in Dubai, focussing on cross-border transactions across the Middle East and North Africa.

Lisa’s representative matters in the Middle East include advising an UAE
based investment company on a US$500 million investment in a Kazakhstan bank; advising a Kuwaiti company on the establishment of a US$2 billion infrastructure fund in Bahrain; advising on the proposed merger of a Lebanese investment bank and an Egyptian retail bank via tender offers on the Cairo and Alexandria Stock Exchanges and the Beirut Stock Exchange and the listing of the shares of a new holding company on Nasdaq-Dubai; advising an UAE Islamic bank on the establishment of an investment bank in the Dubai International Financial Centre; advising a UAE budget airline and an UAE property developer on their initial public offerings on the Dubai Financial Market; advising a DIFC-based company on its initial public offering on the Singapore Stock Exchange; advising a UK bank with respect to the issue of secondary capital by its South African subsidiary qualifying as Tier II capital for FSA purposes.

Lisa’s South African representative matters include establishing Amalgamated Bank of South Africa’s ZAR3.6 billon DMTN programme, acting for the arranger in the issue by Cell C (Pty) Ltd of high-yield bonds, acting for the arranger in the issue by Harmony Gold Mining Company of ZAR1.7 billion convertible notes on the London Stock Exchange and advising Anglo American Corporation of South Africa Limited on the disposal of its worldwide holdings in Boart Longyear.

Lisa has advised clients such as Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs International, UBS AG, Citigroup, Barclays PLC, Standard Bank of South Africa Limited, Amalgamated Bank of South Africa and the Export and Import Bank of the United States of America.

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