Sidumisile Zikhali
Sidumisile Zikhali is a Senior Associate in our Banking, Finance & Projects practice. She specialises and has experience in a broad range of financing transactions including project finance, structured trade and commodities finance, corporate finance, private equity fund finance, preference share funding, debt structuring, global loans, security structures and general finance, acting for both local and international borrowers and lenders.
About Sidumisile
About Sidumisile
Sidumisile began her career at Webber Wentzel as a Candidate Attorney in 2020. Following completion of her articles of clerkship, she was appointed as an Associate in 2022. She also spent time on secondment at Absa Group and to the Development Bank of Southern Africa. Sidumisile joined Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr in 2024 and was promoted to Senior Associate in April 2025.
Credentials
Credentials
Education
- BCom (Law, Investment and Corporate Finance, Insurance and Risk Management), University of the Witwatersrand
- LLB, University of the Witwatersrand
- Admitted as an Attorney and Notary Public of the High Court of South Africa in 2022
Languages
Languages
- English
About Sidumisile
Sidumisile began her career at Webber Wentzel as a Candidate Attorney in 2020. Following completion of her articles of clerkship, she was appointed as an Associate in 2022. She also spent time on secondment at Absa Group and to the Development Bank of Southern Africa. Sidumisile joined Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr in 2024 and was promoted to Senior Associate in April 2025.
Credentials
Education
- BCom (Law, Investment and Corporate Finance, Insurance and Risk Management), University of the Witwatersrand
- LLB, University of the Witwatersrand
- Admitted as an Attorney and Notary Public of the High Court of South Africa in 2022
Languages
- English
Experience
Advising FirstRand Bank Ltd (acting through its RMB division), Absa Bank Ltd and The Standard Bank of South Africa Ltd (acting through their Corporate and Investment Banking divisions) in the landmark structured ZAR 8,45 billion sustainability-linked loan for Mediclinic South Africa. This is the first syndicated sustainability-linked loan arranged by an African bank (RMB), and the largest sustainability-linked loan to date in Africa.
Advising General Atlantic on its USD 96 billion acquisition of Actis.
Advising Sanlam on its ZAR 35 billion joint venture with Allianz, to form a leading pan-African non-banking financial services company with a presence in 27 African countries.
Advising Acorn Agri & Food Ltd on the acquisition by Sun Valley Estates Pty Ltd of the entire issued share capital of Ascendis Animal Health Pty Ltd, Ascendis Vet Pty Ltd, Kyron Laboratories Pty Ltd and Kyron Prescriptions Pty Ltd (awarded Private Equity Deal of the Year at the DealMakers Annual Awards 2021).
Advising the Lenders in relation to the business rescue of Consolidated Power Projects (awarded The Business Rescue Transaction of the Year at the DealMakers Annual 2023).
News
The effect of the accessorial principle on prescription, res judicata, and estoppel
In the matter of Estelle Le Roux and Another v Dielemaar Holdings (Cape) Pty Ltd and Another (414/2023) ZASCA 118, three lease agreements were concluded between a close corporation...
Local and regional trends in the bank, institutional and general debt markets
The banking, finance and projects space is a dynamic environment with market positions and the required legal advisory roles changing continuously. In recent months we have noticed...
