Mohamed Sajid Darsot

Mohamed Sajid Darsot is an Executive at ENS in the Corporate Commercial practice. His practice focuses on Mergers and Acquisitions, specialising in M&A (including cross-border), private equity and B-BBEE transactions, as well as corporate restructures.

Mohamed is an expert in broad-based black economic empowerment (B-BBEE) advisory, structuring and implementing transactions across a wide variety of industries in accordance with B-BBEE legislation.

He has acted for clients (including listed, unlisted and multinational firms) in a variety of sectors including telecoms, mining, automotive, transport and logistics, fuels and energy, healthcare and property development.

Mohamed co-authored the South African Country Chapter on Corporate Governance in Getting the Deal Through – Corporate Governance (2011 and 2012 editions) and the South African country chapter on the first edition of the Private Equity Review (2012 edition). He also co-authored the South African country chapter on Corporate M&A, Chambers Legal Practice Guides (2013 edition).

He is also a non-executive director of Melomed Hospital Holdings Limited, a Cape-based private hospital group. He holds a BSocSc from the University of Cape Town, an LLB from the University of the Western Cape and an LLM from the University of Cape Town, as well as an International Capital Markets Qualification from the South African Institute of Financial Markets. He is admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa, and is recognised by Best Lawyers for Mergers and Acquisitions in South Africa.