Angela Simpson

Angela Simpson is a Partner in the Johannesburg office, practicing in the firm's Mergers and Acquisitions and Private Equity practice. She has 25 years of experience in public and private corporate transactions and M&A across sub-Saharan Africa, spanning sectors including financial services, logistics, food and agriculture, mining, FMCG, telecommunications, technology, and renewable energy.

Ms. Simpson has advised on numerous significant transactions, including Actis on the South African aspects of its disposal of Lekela Power to Infinity Group and Africa Finance Corporation for USD 1.5 billion (Dealmakers Private Equity Deal of the Year 2023), CSSAF Holdings I and others on their disposal of the J&J Group to Imperial Logistics for ZAR 4.4 billion, RCL Foods on the disposal of Vector Logistics to AP Moller, Sango Capital on its acquisition of Neopak Holdings, and Momentum Metropolitan Holdings in the establishment of its ZAR 1.1 billion B-BBEE employee incentive scheme.

Angela holds a BCom and LLB from the University of the Witwatersrand and is an admitted attorney of the High Court in South Africa.

She has been ranked by Chambers Global in Band 2 for Private Equity and Commercial, Corporate and M&A, recognized by IFLR1000 as a Women Leaders Guide Leading Lawyer for eight consecutive years, and by Best Lawyers as a leading individual. She was nominated as a finalist for the DealMakers "Dealmaker of the Year" award for her role in Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation's ZAR 24 billion acquisition of Dimension Data Holdings.