Bio

Patrick Leyden is a corporate lawyer practicing across a number of industry sectors but specialising in the mining and energy sectors within Sub-Saharan Africa. His experience includes domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, joint ventures, private equity, corporate restructurings, and black economic empowerment and indigenisation transactions. Patrick has been recognised as a 'leading lawyer' in Who's Who Legal (Mining) 2019 - 2021 and noted in Legal 500 (2021) as a ‘key name’ for mining transactions. He is also the recipient of the 2020 and 2021 Client Choice Award for 'Energy & Natural Resources' in South Africa. "Patrick Leyden is very competent, very resourceful and hugely successful with our matters. He is very innovative and brings very creative solutions." – Legal 500 (M&A) 2022 Patrick’s clients have praised him as “pragmatic and commercial” and value his “lightning quick response time and accuracy when handling sophisticated cross-border transactions”. – Who’s Who Legal 2021.