Chanté Cockrill

Chanté Cockrill is a Senior Associate in the Corporate Commercial practice at ENS, specialising in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and corporate law. She advises clients on M&A transactions involving both listed and unlisted companies, corporate governance, compliance with the Companies Act, JSE listings requirements and King IV, and the drafting of constitutional documents (memoranda of incorporation and shareholders’ agreements) and trusts.

She has experience in advising on and drafting various transactional and commercial agreements, including share sale agreements, transportation and logistics agreements, and poultry-related agreements. She also advises on the appointment and removal of directors and corporate governance matters, providing strategic legal counsel across a range of corporate and commercial transactions.

She holds an LL.B (Summa Cum Laude) and an LL.M (Cum Laude) from the University of the Western Cape. Her thesis for her Master of Laws explores the scope of section 218(2) of the Companies Act in light of directors' personal liability and shareholder protection. She is an admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa.