With over 14 years of experience in both private practice and in-house, he focuses on corporate cross border M&A transactions, restructuring, B-BBEE and commercial law.
During the course of his experience Greg has drafted and negotiated a variety of commercial agreements, advised on mergers and acquisitions, regulatory filings and other transactions in the corporate, property, telecommunications, mining support and IT sectors.
Greg started his legal career at a law firm in Johannesburg, where after he became in-house counsel for a top four global audit and advisory firm. Greg re-entered private practice where he focused on commercial and corporate law, with specific focus in the telecoms sector. More recently, Greg has expanded his focus on other sectors in the corporate and commercial space.
Greg’s experience includes:
- Advising on the restructuring of the South African business operations of a multinational industrial client in terms of intra-group provisions provided in terms of the South African Income Tax Act.
- Advising on a Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) transaction relating to the sale of various assets for ownership in terms of Statement 102 of South Africa Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment legislation.
- Advising a multinational client in the diversified industrial sector on its local group simplification and reorganization.
Greg holds a BA and LLB degree and was admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa in 2009. In 2013, Greg completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Corporate law with a focus on Company, Competition and Banking and Finance law at the University of the Witwatersrand.