Tessa Brewis > Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr > Cape Town, South Africa > Lawyer Profile
Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr Offices
11 BUITENGRACHT STREET
CAPE TOWN 8001
South Africa
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Tessa Brewis
Work Department
Corporate and Commercial. Projects and Energy.
Position
Tessa is a Director in our Corporate & Commercial practice. Tessa has extensive experience in local and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity, joint ventures and the formation, structuring and restructuring of business entities, commercial of aspects renewable energy projects, large due diligence investigations and she advised on all aspects of South African corporate and commercial law.
Career
Tessa began her career as a Candidate Attorney in 1999 and was appointed as an Associate in 2002. She was the programme manager of the Non-Profit Law Programme at the Non-Profit Consortium from 2003 to 2006. Tessa joined Cliffe Dekker (now Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr) as an Associate in 2007, was promoted to Senior Associate in 2008 and became a Director in 2011. Tessa completed her LLB in Belgium and lived and worked in London prior to commencing articles.
Languages
English
Education
- B Comm LLB, University of Stellenbosch
- International Legal Studies Certificate, University of Antwerp (Belgium)
- LLM, Aberdeen University (Scotland)
- Year of admission as an attorney, notary public and conveyancer: 2001
- Registered with the Legal Practice Council
Lawyer Rankings
South Africa > Projects and infrastructure
Oil and gas work forms the backbone of Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr‘s energy practice, and the team has a solid track record in advising on IPP procurement and construction contracts, PPAs, project finance and M&A relating to large-scale and embedded power generation projects. The group is jointly led by Andrew van Niekerk, who specialises in infrastructure matters, and Megan Rodgers, who has extensive expertise in upstream oil and gas matters. Project finance work forms a key pillar of Johan De Lange‘s practice, and Tessa Brewis advises sponsors, developers and investors on project development and M&A matters pertaining to renewable energy projects. Tsele Moloi brings experience in handling offtake agreements and PPAs for public and private sector entities.