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Mili Soni

Consultant | Johannesburg

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Overview

Mili has over 15 years of experience, she specialises in mergers and acquisitions, equity capital markets and corporate and commercial law. Her expertise extends to advising private and public transactions, initial public offerings and listed company transactions and has a broad range of general corporate law experience. 
She has a particular interest in corporate governance, corporate reorganisations and restructurings and has experience in both domestic and cross-border transactions.

Mili has experience in advising transactions across several industries, including financial services, insurance, agriculture and pharmaceuticals

Experience

Jurisdictions worked in: Angola, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
Languages fluent in: English, Gujarati, Hindi

Some of Mili’s transactional experience includes:

  • Marsh in its acquisition of the insurance brokerage and risk business of Alexander Forbes in South Africa and seven other African jurisdictions.
  • Export Trading Group regarding onboarding the Public Investment Corporation as a strategic partner.
  • Epiroc South Africa in relation to its B-BBEE transactions in South Africa.
  • Coca-Cola Beverages Africa on its aborted IPO on the JSE.
  • Alexander Forbes on the dual track (M&A and IPO) process which resulted in Alexander Forbes listing on the JSE.
  • Dis-Chem Pharmacies on its listing on the JSE.
  • Delta Property Fund Limited in relation to a private placement and listing on the JSE.
  • Schneider Electric in relation to its ZAR 850 million sale of Conlog, a leading developer, manufacturer and distributor of pre-paid electricity meters and related applications.
  • The underwriters of Mix Telematics offering of American Depositary Receipts in the United States.

AREA OF EXPERTISE

Equity Capital Markets Mergers and Acquisitions

Qualifications

  • LLM (Commercial Law), the University of the Witwatersrand.
  • LLB, the University of the Witwatersrand.

INSIGHTS

South Africa: Verification of fit and proper assessments for director appointments South Africa: JSE Listings Requirements – Final JSE Simplification Project amendments South Africa: JSE Listings Requirements – Corporate Action Timetables   South Africa: Companies Amendment Acts of 2024 now partially effective South Africa: JSE Listings Requirements – Rejuvenation Project South Africa: JSE Listings Requirements: Simplification Project – Additional sections for public consultation South Africa: JSE Listings Requirements: Simplification Project – Section 8 (Financial Information) South Africa: JSE Listings Requirements: Simplification Project – Section 13 (Property Entities) South Africa: JSE Simplification Project – Section 12 (Mineral Companies) South Africa: JSE Listings Requirements – Market Segmentation Project South Africa: JSE Listings Requirements – Further changes pursuant to the JSE Simplification Project South Africa: JSE Listings Requirements – Key changes in the JSE Simplification Project to date South Africa: JSE Simplification Project – a rewrite of the JSE Listings Requirements South Africa: Approved amendments and further proposed amendments to the JSE Listings Requirements and the JSE Debt Listings Requirements as at June 2023 South Africa: JSE Auditor accreditation – proposed amendments to Listings Requirements South Africa: Proposed amendments to the JSE Listings Requirements South Africa: The latest on ESG in Listed Companies South Africa: The JSE’s Annual Improvement Project South Africa: JSE consultation paper to reform listings framework South Africa: Amendments to the JSE Listings Requirements South Africa: Regulation of the ICO – sitting in the waiting room

Overview

Mili has over 15 years of experience, she specialises in mergers and acquisitions, equity capital markets and corporate and commercial law. Her expertise extends to advising private and public transactions, initial public offerings and listed company transactions and has a broad range of general corporate law experience. 
She has a particular interest in corporate governance, corporate reorganisations and restructurings and has experience in both domestic and cross-border transactions.

Mili has experience in advising transactions across several industries, including financial services, insurance, agriculture and pharmaceuticals

Experience

Jurisdictions worked in: Angola, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
Languages fluent in: English, Gujarati, Hindi

Some of Mili’s transactional experience includes:

  • Marsh in its acquisition of the insurance brokerage and risk business of Alexander Forbes in South Africa and seven other African jurisdictions.
  • Export Trading Group regarding onboarding the Public Investment Corporation as a strategic partner.
  • Epiroc South Africa in relation to its B-BBEE transactions in South Africa.
  • Coca-Cola Beverages Africa on its aborted IPO on the JSE.
  • Alexander Forbes on the dual track (M&A and IPO) process which resulted in Alexander Forbes listing on the JSE.
  • Dis-Chem Pharmacies on its listing on the JSE.
  • Delta Property Fund Limited in relation to a private placement and listing on the JSE.
  • Schneider Electric in relation to its ZAR 850 million sale of Conlog, a leading developer, manufacturer and distributor of pre-paid electricity meters and related applications.
  • The underwriters of Mix Telematics offering of American Depositary Receipts in the United States.

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