Sean Lederman

Sean Lederman is an Executive at ENS in the Banking and Finance practice. His practice focuses on Banking and Finance Law, specialising in all forms of debt finance transactions.

Sean specialises in leveraged finance, restructurings and workouts, private equity transactions and asset finance. He has nearly 4 decades of experience as a finance lawyer, and his rankings reflect his position as one of the leading finance lawyers in South Africa.

He is particularly known for his work on leveraged finance transactions, including in the private equity space. Sean acts for both lenders and borrowers, and his clients include local and foreign banks, corporate borrowers, private equity houses, operating lessors, airlines and foreign law firms. He is also recognised as the pre-eminent South African lawyer for aircraft financing transactions.

He is recognised by The Legal 500 EMEA in its Hall of Fame for Banking and Finance, by IFLR1000 as Highly Regarded for Banking and Capital Markets: Debt, and by Chambers Global Guide for Banking and Finance in South Africa. He holds a BProc from the University of the Witwatersrand, is admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa, and is registered as a Foreign Lawyer in Mauritius.