Zama Shoba

Associate
About

Zama has experience advising on a wide range of contractual, corporate and commercial matters (including cross border transactions), including compliance monitoring, commercial litigation, reviewing and advising on legislation.

Areas of FocusCorporate

EXPERIENCE

  • Advising NASDAQ listed ASP Isotopes, a developer of technology and processes which produces isotopes for use in multiple industries, on its strategic relationship with SA based PET Labs.
  • Advising the joint managers and bookrunners to Steinhoff International in an accelerated book build offering which resulted in Steinhoff selling 265 million Pepkor Holdings shares and raising a total of R4.9bn (EUR257m).
  • Advising EOH on its capital raising, comprising of a renounceable rights offer made to EOHs qualifying shareholders and specific issue for cash to it's BEE shareholder.
  • Advising on the restructuring of an industrial hygiene and indoor air quality consulting firm and a diversified business group into a new South African company and the subsequent disposal of those assets.
  • Advising the curator of Ubank (under curatorship) in the disposal (as a going concern) of Ubank assets and liabilities to African Bank for a purchase consideration of R80m.
  • Advising a client on the acquisition of all of a manufacturer of wireless condition monitoring sensors.
  • An African bank on its acquisition of the business of a global bank’s entities across multiple African countries.
  • Advising a mining industry client on construction arrangements contract value of more than R1bn.*
  • Advising mining industry clients on community developments trusts.*

* Denotes experience from a previous firm.

Languages
  • English
  • isiZulu
Education
  • University of the Witwatersrand (Mandela Institute) Post Graduate Advanced Company Law II Certificate, 2019
  • University of the Witwatersrand (Mandela Institute) Post Graduate Advanced Company Law I Certificate, 2019
  • University of KwaZulu Natal (Pietermaritzburg Campus), LLB, 2018

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