Roxanna Valayathum
Roxanna Valayathum is a Director in our Corporate & Commercial practice, and is Joint Head of the Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals sector. Roxanna specialises in mergers and acquisitions across various sectors and jurisdictions, the structuring and restructuring of businesses, general corporate and commercial law advice and agreements as well as cross border due diligence investigations.
About Roxanna
About Roxanna
Roxanna began her career as a Candidate Attorney at Tabacks in 2010 and was retained as an Associate in 2012. Roxanna joined Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr as a Senior Associate in 2015 and was appointed as a Director in 2018.
Credentials
Credentials
Education
- Registered with the Legal Practice Council
- LLB (cum laude), University of the Witwatersrand
- Competition Law Certificate, University of the Witwatersrand
- LLM (Commercial Law), University of Johannesburg
- Year admitted as an attorney: 2012
Languages
Languages
- English
About Roxanna
Roxanna began her career as a Candidate Attorney at Tabacks in 2010 and was retained as an Associate in 2012. Roxanna joined Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr as a Senior Associate in 2015 and was appointed as a Director in 2018.
Credentials
Education
- Registered with the Legal Practice Council
- LLB (cum laude), University of the Witwatersrand
- Competition Law Certificate, University of the Witwatersrand
- LLM (Commercial Law), University of Johannesburg
- Year admitted as an attorney: 2012
Languages
- English
Experience
Sanofi-Aventis South Africa
Advised Sanofi-Aventis South Africa Proprietary Limited in the sale by Sanofi-Aventis South Africa Proprietary Limited of its entire shareholding in Opella Healthcare South Proprietary Limited, which housed its South Africa based consumer healthcare unit and CHOICE range of products, to CFAO Société Anonyme.
Social Employment Fund
Advised and provided legal support to the Industrial Development Corporation in implementing, as part of the Presidential Employment Stimulus, its award-winning Social Employment Fund project that created over 100,000 job opportunities as part of its mandate to advance sustainable job creation throughout communities in South Africa.
ICT company
Advised an ICT company in the acquisition of the entire issued share capital of a cloud solutions and consulting services company.
Petroleum company
Advised a petroleum company in relation to its retail operations in South Africa.
Zambezi Platinum
Advised Zambezi Platinum (RF) Limited on the acceleration of the maturity of the empowerment transaction concluded between Northam Platinum Limited and Zambezi Platinum (RF) Limited in May 2015.
Capitalworks
Advised Capitalworks, a private equity fund, in relation to its take private offer in respect of the Peregrine Group, a financial services group listed on the JSE and the A2X.
Pfizer Incorporated
Assisted with the spin off by Pfizer Incorporated of its Upjohn Business into a separate subsidiary for the purposes of the merger thereof with Mylan N.V. to form Viatris Incorporated.
French pharmaceutical company
Advised South African corporate law aspects of the restructure of a multinational French pharmaceutical company.
ArcelorMittal
Advised ArcelorMittal South Africa Limited in its acquisition of the Highveld Structural Mill from Evraz Highveld Steel and Vanadium (in business rescue).
JCDecaux
Advised JCDecaux on a number of matters, including; the restructure of its operations in Nigeria; and the acquisition by JCDecaux of shares in an advertising company operating in South Africa.
Caixa Geral de Depósitos
Advised Caixa Geral de Depósitos, S.A. in the disposal of its entire shareholding in Mercantile Bank Holdings Limited to Capitec Bank Limited and in the establishment thereafter of Caixa Geral de Depósitos, S.A's branch office in South Africa.
Sage Pay Proprietary Limited
Advised Sage Pay Proprietary Limited in the divestment of a business division.
Multinational cosmetics company
Advised a multinational cosmetics company in establishing operations in Swaziland, Lesotho, Botswana and Kenya.
MultiChoice Africa Limited
Advised MultiChoice Africa Limited, in the restructure of its operations across 42 jurisdictions in Africa.
FAAC S.p.A
Advised FAAC S.p.A, the sole shareholder of Zeag SA Proprietary Limited, in the acquisition by Zeag SA of the entire issued share capital of Centurion Systems Proprietary Limited.
Safika Cement Holdings
Advised Safika Cement Holdings (Pty) Ltd in respect of the acquisition by PPC Ltd of a 69.3% interest in Safika Cement Holdings (Pty) Ltd.
Maragon Private Schools
Advised Maragon Private Schools Ruimsig Proprietary Limited in respect of the acquisition by RMB Corvest of a 49.9% interest in Maragon; and the acquisition by Maragon of the Doxa Deo and Charterhouse schools.
Capitalworks Investment Partners
Advised Capitalworks Investment Partners (Pty) Ltd in respect of its acquisition of the Rosond group of companies.
News
The goals, timing and criticisms of the NHI Act
On 15 May 2024, President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the National Health Insurance Bill into law. The National Health Insurance Act 20 of 2023 (NHI Act) marks a pivotal moment in South...
Know your limitations: Lessons from English case law on limitations of liability
Managing risk and allocating liability forms the focal (and sticking) point of many agreements, whether transactional (e.g. a sale) or relationship-based (e.g. a services agreement)....
Shareholders take heed: The removal of a director where a shareholder has requestioned a meeting
In instances where a director does not act in the company’s best interests, the danger of causing reputational harm arises. It is commonplace for the solution to lie in the removal...
Social and Ethics Committees: A reflection on the treatment of exemption applications in the Companies Tribunal
The Companies Tribunal Annual Report 2020 – 2021 indicates that there has been a gradual increase in applications for exemptions from establishing Social and Ethics Committees (SECs)...
The role of mergers and acquisitions in the pharmaceutical industry
Corporate & Commercial Director Roxanna Valayathum and Candidate Attorney Carmin Jansen van Vuuren, featured in a DealMakers Magazine article titled "The role of mergers and acquisitions...
Market recognition
- The Legal 500 EMEA 2024 mentioned Roxanna for Commercial, Corporate/M&A.
Market recognition
- The Legal 500 EMEA 2024 mentioned Roxanna for Commercial, Corporate/M&A.
Expertise
Corporate & Commercial Law
Our strong legal team is well versed in legislative matters and provides support across all commercial disciplines.
Commercial Real Estate
Our team is renowned for offering consistently sound real estate advice and expertise to commercial clients.
Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals
Our multidisciplinary team develops creative strategies and integrated solutions for this important healthcare sector.
Industrials, Manufacturing & Trade
We provide a multidisciplinary approach to legal and commercial matters across Africa.
Insurance Law
Our lawyers combine detailed knowledge of the law with a commercial awareness of the industry.