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Position: Director
Rating:
  • Notable practitioner
Bar Admissions:
South Africa
Practice Areas:
M&A
Jurisdictions:
Languages:
English
Biography

Yaniv Kleitman is a Director in our Corporate & Commercial practice and operates as Counsel within the practice. He specialises in company and securities law.

Recent transactional highlights

Part of the team, and provided technical advice on the following matters:

  • Distell group's restructuring involving Remgro, RCI and Capevin (2017, R8.1 billion);
  • The demerger of Steinhoff International and Steinhoff Africa Retail (STAR) and the listing of STAR on the JSE (2017, R74 billion);
  • The Vodacom Group and YeboYethu B-BBEE transaction restructuring (2018, R17.5 billion);
  • Ascendis Health's acquisition of Remedica and Scitec (2016, R7.3 billion);
  • The merger of NEPI and Rockcastle property companies (2017, R85 billion).
Practice areas
  • M&A
  • Company, takeover, securities & commercial law advisory
Sector specialisations
  • General commercial
Bar admissions
  • South Africa
Association memberships
  • Law Society of the Northern Provinces
Academic qualifications
  • LLB cum laude, University of Johannesburg
  • LLM (Commercial Law) cum laude, University of Johannesburg
  • Year of admission as an attorney: 2009
Address:
Johannesburg
Tel:+27 11 562 1219 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:https://www.cliffedekkerhofmeyr.com/en/people/yaniv-kleitman.html