Mr Gerhard Johannes > Werksmans Attorneys > Johannesburg, South Africa > Lawyer Profile

Mr Gerhard Johannes

+27 11 535 8107 gjohannes@werksmans.com

Work Department

Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions

Position

Director Gerhard Johannes is Head of Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions

Career

Director Gerhard Johannes is Head of Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions, also lending his skills to the Africa practice area. He specialises in corporate finance; public offerings and private placements; black economic empowerment transactions; international transactions; exchange control; leveraged and acquisition finance; leveraged and management buy-outs; listings/flotations; private equity; project and limited recourse finance; and mergers & acquisitions. Gerhard Johannes has been a director of Werksmans since 1999. He is consistently recognised in various international ratings and has been named as a leading lawyer in M&A by Best Lawyers International and in Corporate/M&A by Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business. He is also a recommended lawyer in Corporate and M&A by the Legal500.

Memberships

Gerhard is a member of the Law Society of the Northern Provinces.

Education

Gerhard has a BA LLB from the University of Stellenbosch, as well as Higher Diplomas in Company Law and Tax from the University of the Witwatersrand.