Roger Rudolph

Roger Rudolph is an Executive at ENS in the Banking and Finance practice. His practice focuses on Banking and Finance Law.

Roger specialises in structuring and leading transactions and projects that seek to achieve deal-specific tax, regulatory, financial or accounting objectives. These transactions have typically involved a combination of derivatives, hybrid-equity instruments, local or cross-border tax, investment funds, securities law or corporate law elements.

His experience includes extensive and prolonged involvement in the structuring and implementation of a wide range of liability-matching and hedging transactions as well as outsourcings by pension funds and insurers. Roger has advised central banks, commercial banks, financial institutions and industry bodies on a range of governance, transactional and regulatory matters, and has advised local and foreign central banks on financial support to other banks and on establishing a legislative framework for the netting of financial transactions.

He has advised two South African public sector pension funds on the defence and settlement of a certified class action brought against the funds and the employer company, and one of those funds in a substantial recovery of the proceeds of state capture. He holds a BA and an LLB from Stellenbosch University and is admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa. He is recognised by IFLR1000, Chambers Global Guide, The Legal 500 EMEA and Best Lawyers for Banking and Finance, Capital Markets and Insurance.