Chikuni Associates provides legal and corporate advisory services to business enterprises at all stages of development. Our experience counseling on a wide range of issues spanning a variety of industries allows our lawyers to undertake the following: 1. Corporate Finance We advise on the following: • mergers and acquisitions; • capital raisings; • capital reconstructions and / or restructuring; • private placements; • stock exchange listings; • commercialisations and privatisations; • corporate restructuring; • economic empowerment transactions; • equity participations schemes; • due diligence investigations; • management and / or leveraged buy-outs; • localisation of shareholding interest; and • issuance of bonds and other security instruments. 2. Project Finance • project companies, • creation of the financing structure, • bid documentation, • obtaining concessions and government approvals, • reviewing and drafting security agreements and information memoranda 3. General Representation • drafting of security documents and bond registration; • drafting organisational charter documents, including memoranda and articles of association, and partnership agreements; • commercial negotiations; • agreements; • corporate governance; • employment law; and • taxation. 4. Litigation And Alternative Dispute Resolution We have an active Magistrate, High Court and Supreme Court practice. 5. Economic Empowerment transactions