Cheván Daniels

Cheván Daniels is an Executive at ENS in the Corporate Commercial practice. His practice focuses on Mergers and Acquisitions, specialising in M&A, corporate re-organisations and restructures, and advising on regulatory compliance issues pertaining to M&A transactions, corporate finance, financial markets and securities legislation and regulation.

Cheván has deep expertise in all aspects of private equity, including legal due diligence in anticipation of acquisitions by PE funds of portfolio companies, portfolio and investment structuring, regulatory approvals, management incentives, recapitalisations following on altered investment horizons or other changed circumstances, disposal of portfolio companies, IPOs and other exit strategies.

He is also an expert in broad-based black economic empowerment (B-BBEE) advisory, regulatory and compliance, including strategic planning, as well as structuring, implementing and regulating transactions across a wide variety of industries in accordance with B-BBEE legislation.

Cheván has M&A, B-BBEE and corporate re-organisation expertise in a wide range of industries, including private equity, property, financial services and industrial and manufacturing, as well as in respect of both publicly listed and private unlisted companies. He also has experience in leading legal due diligence investigations in respect of M&A transactions across a wide range of industries.

He holds a BSocSci from the University of Cape Town and an LLB (Cum Laude) from the University of Cape Town, and is admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa. He is recognised by Best Lawyers for Corporate and M&A Law, by Chambers Global Guide for Corporate/M&A, and by The Legal 500 EMEA for Commercial, Corporate and M&A in South Africa.