Bio

Michael Swartland is a partner in our Cape Town office Finance Practice. He has significant experience in preference share and BEE funding, structured finance, secured and syndicated lending, capital markets, private equity, as well as general corporate and commercial matters. He regularly advises a number of major local and international financial institutions and corporates in relation to South African law aspects of bilateral and syndicated lending arrangements and preference share funding, including exchange control, taking of security under South African law and related regulatory matters. Michael regularly acts on matters with major clients, such as Old Mutual, Standard Bank, Rand Merchant Bank, Investec Asset Management, Fairfax Africa Investments, Coca-Cola Beverages Africa and Curro Holdings Ltd. Michael has BA and LLB degrees from the University of Cape Town.