Johan de Lange > Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr > Cape Town, South Africa > Lawyer Profile
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Johan de Lange
Position
Johan de Lange is the Deputy Practice Head of our Finance & Banking practice. He is also Director in Projects & Infrastructure and in the Corporate & Commercial practice. Johan is a banking and finance lawyer with years of experience in the domestic and international debt markets where he practiced as a leading transacting lawyer with preeminent commercial law firms in London and Johannesburg. His field of specialisation includes acquisition and leveraged finance, private equity fund financings, project and infrastructure finance, commercial real estate finance, asset and structured finance, general syndicated debt and capital restructure transactions where he has worked on several of market-leading transactions in these areas.
Career
Johan started his focus on banking and finance transactional work whilst working at Allen & Overy, a leading ‘Magic Circle’ law firm in London. On his subsequent return to Johannesburg, he established, and for several years headed, one of the leading Johannesburg banking and finance practices at Webber Wentzel. His general business background benefits from experience gained during other phases of his career at Arthur Andersen, an international audit firm and Coronation Capital, an investment bank in Johannesburg and, more recently, Prime Kapital, a commercial property developer and investor based in Bucharest.
Johan joined CDH’s Corporate & Commercial practice in September 2023.
Languages
English
Education
- MSc (Law and Accounting) – London School of Economics, 2003
- LLM (Corporate Law) – University of Johannesburg, 1997
- B Juris LLB – University of Potchefstroom, 1994
- Law Society of the Northern Provinces
- Law Society of the Cape of Good Hope