Chambers & Partners Africa-wide ranked Investment funds lawyer. I advise on fund formation. #RisingStar2019 Winner in the Professional Services category.
Privileged to be recognized by #ChambersandPartners as one of a handful of elite fund formation specialists across the globe for the 2nd year running! There are no substitutes for hard work & excellence, so the reward is such a special feeling #grateful!
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Day 2 of the @SuperReturn Emerging Markets Conference #SREM26 is winding to a close. Panel now on, 'Success with a purpose: the next phase for emerging markets'.
#NowOn@SuperReturn Emerging Markets: 'Infrastructure re-energised' moderator Lisa Lambie (Managing Partner & CIO, Maroon Venture Fund) with Paul Frankish (Investment Director & Head of Strategic Initiatives, AIIM) & Jon Marius Hønsi (Head Global Relations, Gaia Fund Managers).
#SREM26@SuperReturn Emerging Markets, #NowOn 'Africa on the Move' panel Shafeeq Abrahams, CEO & Principal (Eskom Pension & Provident Fund), Kohei Muto, CEO & Founder (Double Feather Partners) and Pamela Okehie Brylski, MD & Head of Investor Relations (Helios Investment Partners)
The biggest flex & actually an incredible privilege of working, and being a partner, at one of South Africa's Premier 'big law' firms is being a partner with & alongside some of the absolute best practioners in the market & top specialists in their fields. Top tier feeling.
Increasingly (imo) too many trainee practitioners enter practice expecting zero hardship and as they have little to no grit or resilience, when they experience even the slightest adversity in formal practice (or big law), they have a complete meltdown and sometimes even crashout.
Final day of the @AVCA_Africa Conference 2026. Panel 10 #NowOn: Investing with Intention: Impact that drives returns.
International DFIs often require the Africa funds they invest in to be big on impact, which is not to say they are simultaneously willing to compromise returns!
- The quality of the manager matters.
- Portfolio diversification, platform strategies, & driving value creation (driving impact at scale) is key.
- Blended structures to enhance the outcome or returns are critical;
- Building co-investing strategies
Farid Fezoua, IFC Director
What's top of mind for LPs when deciding on deploying capital?
- How do you bring in different pools of capital into Africa? Traditional LPs want to see local African capital in the mix.
- Gender-lens investing is gaining increasing traction.
Chris C, BII MD & Head of Africa
Day 2 @AVCA_Africa Conference 2026.
The Long View: How Capital Allocator's see Africa's Private Capital Future
A very interesting panel on what the Investors think of the industry and its future.
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"New funds are still under pressure to deploy capital. Older funds are under pressure to return capital. Those two clocks are no longer synchronized"
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Fast approaching the end of a solid day 1 of the @AVCA_Africa Conference 2026. #NowOn Panel 3 of 3 for the day - Managing Risks, Generating Return: Inside Private Credit. #AVCAConference2026
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1/ No matter how hard you work or how diligently you apply yourself to excellence, regardless of accolades or achievements even if you ensure you don't have an ego about your work (ie knowing when to ask for help or for peer review when you feel it necessary to check yourself)...
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Webber Wentzel is heading to the SAVCA Private Equity Conference 2026 in Cape Town this week, joining leading investors, fund managers and advisors from across Africa.
Graham Viljoen shares what to expect from this year's conversations and why the themes emerging at SAVCA matter for the future of private capital on the continent.
We look forward to connecting with you there.
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