Mr Colin Du Toit > 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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Mr Colin Du Toit
Work Department
Corporate Practice
Position
Partner
Career
Colin has over 20 years of experience and specialises in public and private mergers and acquisitions (M&A) (cross-border and domestic), equity capital markets, black economic empowerment transactions, corporate restructuring, corporate and transactional finance, securities transactions and general corporate and commercial law.
Colin has worked across a range of industries, including minerals and resources, telecoms, retail, gaming, property and manufacturing.
He has worked throughout Sub-Saharan Africa including on matters across Botswana, Cameroon, the DRC, Ghana, Mauritius, Nigeria, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Education
LLM (Tax) (cum laude), University of South Africa, [year]
LLB, University of Cape Town, 1994
B.Bus.Sci (Hons) (cum laude), University of Cape Town, 1992
Lawyer Rankings
South Africa > Commercial, corporate and M&A
Safiyya Patel heads up Webber Wentzel‘s corporate practice, which continues to handle a high volume of prominent M&A transactions for clients in the technology, media, mining, financial services and healthcare sectors, to name a few areas. Gareth Driver
is highly regarded for his expertise in corporate law, with a workload that takes in BEE transactions, joint ventures, corporate finance and corporate governance matters, and firm managing partner Sally Hutton is well known as a private equity specialist. Cross-border transactions form the backbone of Christo Els‘ practice, while Jesse Watson advises on equity capital markets and public and private M&A deals. Justin Roberts and Colin du Toit also play important roles in the group. In mid-2023 Huneiza Goolam joined the department and Ziyanda Ntshona left the firm.
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