Tshepiso Billa is an Associate in the Commercial Department specialising in Banking and Finance and Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions. She advises on various corporate and commercial matters, including corporate restructuring, due diligence investigations and share sales and subscriptions. She also has experience in structured finance (including loan syndications), securitisations (listed and unlisted), financial services, cross-border transactions, regulatory, and trust and estates work.
Years of Experience: 2 years
- Banking and Finance
- Corporate Mergers and Acquisition
Commercial
- Banking and Finance
- Corporate Mergers and Acquisition
- Advised Paterson Candy International (SA) Proprietary Limited t/a PCI Africa in a ZAR365 million share acquisition by WPIL SA Holdings Proprietary Limited, a subsidiary of a Bombay Stock Exchange Listed entity
- Advised a consortium represented by Marine Edge Capital in its ZAR633,4 million acquisition of shares in Oceana Group Limited
- Advised Aksa Power Generator SA Proprietary Limited in the ZAR6,9 million acquisition of 60% of the issued share capital of Deltagen Proprietary Limited, a South African company specialising in custom prime and standby generators and power solutions
- Advised Nutun Holdings Proprietary Limited in respect of the multijurisdictional corporate restructure of Nutun SA Proprietary Limited and Nutun International
- Advised Bayport Securitisation (RF) Limited on matters relating to a listed ZAR10 billion asset-backed note programme established to fund the business of granting un-secured personal loans to South African consumers
- Advised a leading international specialist insurance broker in the ZAR80 million share repurchase and sale of shares to a Mauritian incorporated vehicle
- Advising on various commercial transactions involving the establishment and incorporation of trusts and advising on other key aspects of trust-related matters
- Advising a mining company on the outsourcing of a portion of its mining obligations to a specialist contractor
- Advised a local community debt fund manager on various aspects of their funding structure and the issuance of debt securities
- Advised a local banking and financial institution in various leveraged finance transactions with borrower counterparts in the mining and industrials sectors
- Conducted vendor due diligence investigations on behalf of a financial institution and its subsidiaries in relation to the disposal of certain of its underlying assets
- Admitted as an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa, 2026
- LLB, Stellenbosch University, 2023
- Certificate in Management and Leadership for Lawyers, Bucerius Law School (Hamburg), 2023
- BCom (Law), Stellenbosch University, 2021
