Ms Khurshid Fazel > Webber Wentzel > Johannesburg, South Africa > Lawyer Profile
Webber Wentzel Offices
90 RIVONIA ROAD, SANDTON
JOHANNESBURG 2196,
PO BOX 61771, MARSHALLTOWN 2107
South Africa
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Ms Khurshid Fazel
Work Department
Banking and Finance
Position
Partner
Career
Khurshid specialises in banking and finance transactions with a particular focus in preference share funding transactions and leveraged and acquisition finance across sectors including telecommunications, mining and healthcare. The lenders that she represents are mainly South African banks and financial institutions and the borrowers she represents South African corporates and private equity funds. She has also represented international banks in respect of margin lending transactions to South African corporates.
Khurshid is also a tax practitioner which bolsters her preference share funding practice.
Education
LLM (Corporate Law), University of Johannesburg, 2003
LLM (Tax), University of the Witwatersrand, 2005
LLB, University of the Free State, 2001
B.Proc, University of the Free State, 2000
Admitted attorney and notary of the High Court of South Africa
Lawyer Rankings
South Africa > Banking and finance
(Leading individuals)Webber Wentzel‘s banking and finance practice is home to ‘a team of seasoned lawyers with a great amount of experience‘. The ‘incredibly dedicated‘ Khurshid Fazel is very experienced in advising on sustainability-linked loans and preference share funding transactions; she co-heads the banking and finance team with Lindi Marais, who regularly advises on debt work. Dawid de Villiers has ‘excellent knowledge of banking and financial services regulation‘, and Karen Couzyn is a highly regarded practitioner in the debt capital markets space. Kathy Shepherd acts for borrowers and lenders in syndicated lending matters and acquisition financings. Rashaad Carrim, Natasha Pather, and Faatimah Jaffer also play important roles in the department.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Competition
- Dispute resolution
- Employment
- Investment funds
- Mining
- Shipping and transport
- Tax