Mr Ashford Nyatsumba > Webber Wentzel > Johannesburg, South Africa > Lawyer Profile

Mr Ashford Nyatsumba

27115305259 [email protected]

Work Department

Tax Practice

Position

Partner

Career

Ashford is involved in a range of investment funds projects, on both regulated and unregulated investment fund transactions in Africa. He specialises in the formation and structuring of alternative investment funds and has advised and acted for local and international private equity and venture capital firms looking to raise funds for deployment in South Africa and Africa generally. He also advises various development finance institutions, other institutional investors, as well as high net worth individuals relative to investing into Africa focused private equity funds. Ashford also has experience assisting clients with regulatory and transactional matters throughout Africa, and has previously advised on establishing operations in various African jurisdictions. Specifically, he advised a major Canadian corporate in the mining sector, on the formation and establishment of a subsidiary in Ethiopia, and has advised other major corporate entities (both domestic and international) on their expansion into Sub-Saharan Africa either through establishing a presence in, and/or incorporating subsidiaries, as well as acquisitions in the various African jurisdictions.

Education