Parusha Desai Valodia

Parusha Desai Valodia is a Senior Associate at ENS in the Corporate Commercial practice, focusing on Mergers and Acquisitions. She specialises in mergers and acquisitions, equity capital markets (ECM), corporate restructures, cross-border and corporate transactional matters.

She advises a diverse range of listed and unlisted companies in local and international markets and is currently a member of the firm’s ECM practice group and broad-based black economic empowerment (B-BBEE) practice group.

Parusha has deep expertise in all aspects of B-BBEE, including structuring, advisory, regulatory and compliance. Her experience also includes advising listed and unlisted companies on cross-border and multi-jurisdictional M&A transactions, securities dealings, and B-BBEE structuring, advisory and compliance.

She currently serves as an independent trustee and chairperson of an educational trust in South Africa. She holds a BCom in Finance and Law and an LLB (Summa Cum Laude) from the University of the Western Cape, and Advanced Company Law I and II from the University of the Witwatersrand. She is admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa.