Landmark transactions

LHC Advisory > Landmark transactions

Public market (ECM) work

Freeworld Coatings Limited – separate unsolicited takeover bids by a consortium led by Brait and by Kansai Paint Co., Ltd. (2010)
Adcock Ingram Holdings Limited – contested between the Bidvest Group Limited and CFR Pharmaceuticals S.A (2013-2014)

advising on the acquisition by JSE-listed Metrofile of all the shares in G4S Secure Data Solutions (Kenya) Limited, the largest records management company in East Africa
advising a leading South African private equity firm on the listing on the Australian ASX of a pan-African engineering firm
advising Brait Fund IV and related entities in relation to their investment in broadcasting group Primedia, including the acquisition in 2007 and the disposal thereof in late 2017 to a consortium comprising Ethos Private Equity, Ethos Capital and MMI Group Limited
advising funds advised by Development Partners International on various transactions including the acquisition of a facilities management group headquartered in Mauritius with a presence in 7 African countries including Zimbabwe
advising a major JSE-listed company in relation to an unsolicited takeover approach
advising AECI Limited on a Scheme of Arrangement and acquisition of treasury shares

assisted clients subject to cartel and other prohibited practice investigations in the bitumen, liquified gas, fire extinguisher, shipping, pharmaceutical, automotive parts, automobile and hotel industries
assisted clients with merger filings in South Africa and elsewhere in Africa, including COMESA filings