Mr Richard Roothman > Werksmans Attorneys > Johannesburg, South Africa > Lawyer Profile
Werksmans Attorneys Offices
THE CENTRAL, 96 RIVONIA ROAD
SANDTON
JOHANNESBURG 2196
South Africa
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Mr Richard Roothman
Work Department
Banking & Finance.
Position
Richard was appointed a director of Werksmans in 2007 and heads the firm’s Banking & Finance practice group.
Career
Director Richard Roothman is Head of Banking & Finance, also advising in the Africa practice area. Richard specialises in banking and financial services regulation; debt capital markets; exchange control; leveraged and acquisition finance; leveraged and management buy-outs; project and limited recourse finance; structured finance transactions; listings/flotations; public offerings and private placements; securitisation, and syndicated and bilateral financing structures. Richard is consistently recognised in international rankings, including being named as a leading lawyer in Capital Markets (2010 – 2017), Banking (2011-2017) and in Project Finance (2011 – 2013) by IFLR1000: The Guide to the World’s Leading Financial Law Firms.
Memberships
Richard is a member of the Law Society of the Northern Provinces.
Education
Richard has BCom (Law) and LLB degrees from the University of Pretoria. He also has two LLM degrees, one from Cornell University in the USA and the second, an LLM in Tax, from the University of the Witwatersrand. Richard is an admitted attorney in New York, USA, as well as South Africa.
Lawyer Rankings
South Africa > Banking and finance
(Hall of Fame)Elliott Wood heads Werksmans Attorneys
’ banking and finance practice, which is well known for representing major financial institutions, domestic and international banks and clients drawn from a range of sectors, including agriculture, commodities, retail and healthcare, in high-value debt refinancings, asset finance matters, acquisition and leveraged finance mandates, and project and limited recourse finance work. Richard Roothman
‘has vast experience and a depth of expertise in all areas of banking and finance‘, and Laura Alexander acts for lenders and borrowers in preference shared transactions and corporate debt restructurings. The department was bolstered by the arrival of Jenni Darling in March 2023.