Tochukwu Eresia-Eke

Tochukwu Eresia-Eke is an Associate at Bowmans in Johannesburg, specialising in tax law, international tax, and mergers and acquisitions. She advises South African and international corporates on a broad spectrum of tax matters across multiple sectors, including banking and financial services, private equity, consumer goods, and digital solutions.

Tochukwu's experience extends to providing guidance on M&A, private equity transactions, corporate tax considerations, funding structures, international tax matters, exchange control, and establishing operations in South Africa. She also has experience in corporate restructurings, tax due diligence investigations, tax dispute resolution, the preparation of tax opinions, advising on employee incentive schemes, and assisting with end-to-end deal execution. She has advised on local and cross-border M&A transactions, post-acquisition integration restructuring, distributions, intra-group debt restructuring, B-BBEE introduction through notional vendor funding, exchange control implications of outbound and inbound investments, and the establishment and restructure of share incentive schemes.

Tochukwu holds an LL.B (cum laude) from the University of Pretoria and is an admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa.