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Our team represented the super senior creditors in all aspects of the financial restructuring of the Edcon Group

Our team represented the super senior creditors in all aspects of the financial restructuring of the Edcon Group

1 Jun 2018 1 min read Featured work

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Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr represented the super senior creditors (Absa Bank Limited, Deutsche Bank AG, Johannesburg Branch, Credit Suisse AG, London Branch, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Johannesburg Branch,Standard Chartered Bank, Johannesburg Branch, The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited, Morgan Stanley Bank International Limited, FirstRand Bank Limited and Investec Bank Limited) in all aspects of the financial restructuring of the Edcon Group. Edcon is the leading clothing, footwear and textiles retailing group in southern Africa, and trades through a number of retail formats.

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