Rob Bergman explores the opportunities of Series B and C funding on the continent. Rob is a Corporate Finance Principal at investment banking firm Bravura, which has won the Best…
Ian Matthews, Head of Business Development and Mari Loubser a Principal in the Structured Solutions team, outline the questions around the consideration of capital or income distributions from South African…
Bravura has been named the Best Independent Advisory Firm for South Africa in the 2021 Africa Global Funds Service Providers Awards (AGF). This is the third consecutive year that Bravura…
Bravura is honoured to have been shortlisted in three categories in this year's AGF awards: Advisory services - Private Equity: Bravura has been shortlisted in this category along with Verdant Capital and Ibis…
In what can be seen as a victory for the Minerals Council of South Africa, the Gauteng High Court (“the Court”) ruled this week against the Minister of Mineral and…
In celebration of Women’s Month, a premier ranking publication DealMakers, featured a number of women from within the corporate finance sector, who each are succeeding in what has remains a…
Ian Matthews, head of Business Development at Bravura, along with Jared Waters and Rudelle Ellmann of the Structured Solutions team, outlines the changes to South Africa's exchange control regulations. They…
At the beginning of 2021, the South African Reserve Bank (“SARB”) announced a relaxation of the rules relating to loop structures. The Bank of Namibia (“BoN”) has yet to announce…
Kemp Munnik, head of Structured Solutions, draws attention to the swooping changes in the exchange control regulations and the subsequent tax amendments. The 2020 Budget of Finance Minister Tito Mboweni…
In February this year, Trade, Industry & Competition minister Ebrahim Patel, commented that broad-based ownership schemes were genuine broad-based black economic empowerment (B-BBEE), a position at odds with the B-BBEE…