Melinda Opperman

Melinda Opperman is an Associate at ENS in the Banking Finance practice, focusing on Banking and Finance Law. She specialises in general banking and finance with a key focus on infrastructure and real-estate finance, trade finance, debt restructuring and acquisition finance, both in South Africa and across Sub-Saharan Africa.

Her practical experience includes advising commercial banks and development finance institutions on various cross-border financing transactions and domestic funding transactions. She also has experience advising borrowers, including South African state-owned companies, on various debt and hybrid debt-equity transactions.

In addition, Melinda regularly acts as local counsel in South Africa for foreign financial institutions on cross-border transactions.

She holds an LLB (Cum Laude) from the University of Pretoria and is admitted as an attorney at the High Court of South Africa.