Dylan Cunard
Phone +27 21 405 5173
Email dcunard@werksmans.com
Location Cape Town
Name / Surname Dylan Cunard

Dylan Cunard

Director

Dylan Cunard is a Director within our commercial department. He specialises in corporate mergers & acquisitions; commercial property; private equity; investment funds; international transactions; black economic empowerment transactions.

Dylan trained at a Magic Circle Firm in London from 2003 – 2005 and practiced there until 2011. As an admitted Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales, Dylan can also issue English Law legal opinions and provide UK general corporate property and commercial advice, where transactions are governed by English law, particularly involving underlying interests in Africa.

Years of Experience: 21 years

Commercial

  • Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Investment Funds

  • Advising Pepkor Holdings Limited in its disposal of its 100% equity stake in The Building Company Proprietary Limited (TBCo) to Capitalworks Private Equity and selected members of TBCo management for a purchase price of cR1,2 billion.
  • Advised Allan Gray, Amnesty International, Bank Insinger de Beaufort, Inspired Evolution, Investec Bank, JP Morgan, Palladino, Rapid African Energy Holdings and SAB Miller on various international transactions
  • Acted for Nomura on their acquisition of  Lehman Brothers Limited’s equities and investment banking division and for other large banking clients such as Credit Suisse, Citigroup and DGHYP on various refinancings in London
  • Acted for E&Y on the administration of Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander (the Icelandic Bank)

  • Admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales, 2005
  • Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice Commendation, BPP Law School (London), 2003
  • LLB, University of Wales / University Innsbruck (Austria), 2002

  • 2003-2011:  Trained and practiced at a Magic Circle Firm, London for 8 years
  • 2005: Seconded to Magic Circle Firm’s Berlin office
  • 2010-2011: Seconded to the Blackstone Group Berkeley Square, London, Real Estate Private Equity
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