Andiswa Nyathi

Andiswa Nyathi is a Senior Associate in the firm's Banking and Finance Law practice, based in the Johannesburg office. He advises lenders and borrowers on secured and syndicated finance, fund finance, structured finance, acquisition finance, project finance, trade finance, mining and resource finance, debt restructurings, public-private partnerships, and real estate finance, as well as debt capital market transactions including DMTN programmes and note issuances.

His recent experience includes advising South Africa's National Treasury on a sustainable solution to address Eskom's debt, a syndicate of lenders on ZAR 15 billion facilities for the Lesotho Highlands water project, and an international mining company on US$200 million gold stream financing and an additional USD 100 million palladium and platinum stream financing. He has also advised The Standard Bank of South Africa on a ZAR 1 billion fund financing, Absa Bank on an intricate USD-based financing for a residential development in Kenya, and FirstRand Bank on the refinancing and restructuring of McDonald's South Africa's debt package.

Andiswa holds a BCom (Economics), an LLB, and an LLM in Banking and Finance & Competition Law from the University of the Witwatersrand.