Fatena is an Associate in the Corporate and Commercial department in South Africa. Fatena has experience in mergers and acquisitions, commercial litigation, and corporate finance.
Fatena advises blue chip clients on large-scale commercial transactions in the renewable energy, agriculture and hospitality sectors.
Fatena's day-to-day legal expertise is in negotiating, drafting and reviewing a broad range of commercial agreements, conducting due diligence investigations, and implementing commercial transactions such as share sales and sale of business transactions.
Fatena is a South African qualified lawyer and previously worked for a top 5 law firm based in Cape Town, and is a native Arabic and English speaker.
Experience
Advising a black-owned entity that is a leading investor in power projects and clean energy on the acquisition of a 700 MW portfolio of onshore wind farms, including conducting a due diligence investigation into the target entity, negotiating and drafting the transaction agreements, and implementing the transaction.
Advising an investment company on the disposal of its interest in the South African branch of a multinational fast food restaurant to a US-based private equity fund.
Advising a commercial property developer on the process of developing, financing, and acquiring a subsidiary of a world-renowned hotel chain in Johannesburg.
Advising a major producer and exporter of apples in South Africa on the acquisition of another fruit exporting business as a going concern.
Advising a leading South Africa-based information technology research and advisory company on the acquisition of another information technology business through a share sale transaction.
