South Africa
With more than 40 lawyers on the ground in South Africa, Johannesburg has become a key hub. A&O’s strategy is to build out its Africa cross-border transactional capability in the Johannesburg office. In so doing, A&O intends to diversify its specialist offerings and expand its client base to align with a future-fit focus on dispute resolution, infrastructure, energy and corporate advisory work.
Our team is fully integrated into Allen & Overy’s worldwide network, complementing our wider African capability, which includes working closely with our London, Paris and Casablanca offices in particular.
Combining the expertise and resources of a global elite law practice with a leading group of senior domestic practitioners, our SA office provides our clients with innovative and cost-effective legal solutions wherever they are located.
Our team includes lawyers qualified to practise in South Africa, England and Wales, who advise African home-grown companies and international corporations on opportunities in the banking, finance, energy, infrastructure and mining sectors, both in South Africa and elsewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa. Our lawyers have established close working relationships with regulators, government entities, investors, banks and corporates across the region in order to offer our clients optimal support.
Clients benefit from our seamless integration across the firm, where a true spirit of client centric collaboration ensures the sharing of knowledge, information, technology systems, processes and skills. Whatever the transaction or legal issue, we are used to leveraging our resources as one firm to meet our clients’ needs, offering them the support and advice needed to succeed in the ever-changing and complex national and global market space.
Our offices
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Johannesburg
6th Floor, 90 Grayston, 90 Grayston Drive, Sandton
Johannesburg
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News and insights
News: 13 March 2024
Allen & Overy and Standard Chartered launch second edition of Guide to Payment Regulations
Allen & Overy and international banking group Standard Chartered have launched the second edition of Guide to Payment Regulations for corporates and fintech customers navigating the evolving payments…
Publications: 26 February 2024
New tax laws affecting preference share transactions
Preference shares can very often be a preferable funding instruments, as an alternative to ordinary equity and debt funding, due to the fact that (a) they provide the holder with fixed dividends and…
News: 05 February 2024
London - Allen & Overy (A&O) has advised the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF), part of the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG), on its investment in the first green bond listed…
Publications: 31 January 2024
Jackie Donald on her career path, lessons learnt and global trends in mining
Meet Jackie Donald, a senior associate from our global mining practice and one of the delegates attending the global Mining Indaba 2024 conference this year, which is focused on the development of…
Allen & Overy (South Africa) LLP is a level two contributor to Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE); under the Amended Codes of Good Practice on Black Economic Empowerment, October 2013.
Recognition
With strong technical and organisational abilities, the banking and finance team provides concise and sound technical advice.
Chambers and Partners 2023 – Global –South Africa
They display great commitment and sense of duty to the client’s cause.
Chambers and Partners 2023 – Global –South Africa
The team quickly understands areas of concern and looks to resolve these in a commercially viable way.
Chambers and Partners 2023 – Global – South Africa