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Christo Els is Webber Wentzel's Senior Partner. Christo was named Joint Dealmaker of the Year in 2011 by Dealmakers Magazine, with five further nominations between 2010-2015. Christo's experience includes many of the large, transformational and cross-border transactions in South Africa in recent years, including the African aspects of AB InBev's take-over of SABMiller; Woolworths' ZAR 23 billion takeover of David Jones in Australia - one of the largest outbound acquisitions by a South African...

Sally Hutton is a partner in the Corporate Practice and the managing partner at Webber Wentzel. She is a private equity specialist and advises on all aspects of merger and acquisition transactions (both public and private) for private equity funds, including structuring advice, the consortium and shareholders arrangements, the management participation arrangements, broad-based black economic empowerment (B-BBEE) structures, funding arrangements and reorganisations. She has acted in most of So...

Jon Schlosberg is a partner in our Johannesburg office Corporate Department. He was previously Chairman of the firm and has also headed our Corporate Department. He specializes in mergers and acquisitions, corporate law, corporate governance, capital markets and securities law. Jon led the firm’s team in advising a local bank on what was then the largest direct foreign investment into South Africa and the largest foreign investment outside of China by a Chinese corporate. Jon is a membe...

Des Williams was the chairman of Werksmans Attorneys from 2005 to February 2015. He has been with the firm since 1974 and headed its Litigation Department from 1994 to 2005. He is now the head of the firm’s Arbitration Practice Group. He is experienced in all fields of commercial litigation and alternative dispute resolution, including international litigation, arbitration and mediation. He has been involved in many of the largest and most complex litigation and arbitration matters in S...