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PwC Appoints Carol Stubbings to Lead Groups

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PwC has appointed Carol Stubbings to be its Global Tax and Legal Services Leader from 1 July 2020. Carol has been a member of PwC for many years, most recently leading PwC’s People and Organisation practice.

Carol joined PwC UK in November 2003 and has been a partner for the last 15 years.

She has lived and worked in Zambia, South Africa and the United States and her roles at PwC have included Global Mobility Leader for PwC UK and Client Experience Leader for PwC’s Global Tax practice.

Carol has also over the last 12 months led PwC’s New World. New Skills. programme, which is focused on upskilling both PwC’s own people and developing and sharing technologies to support clients and communities.

Her recent work includes advising clients on global transformation, talent and culture change programmes, and opportunities from market disruptors and innovations. She regularly talks and writes on these topics; particularly around the future of work, younger workers, and the role companies can play in shaping their own paths in an uncertain environment.

Carol replaces Colm Kelly who will take on a new role as PwC’s Global Purpose and Corporate Responsibility Leader.

PwC Brand Overview:

PwC is an international professional services brand of firms, operating as partnerships under the PwC brand. It is the second-largest professional services network in the world and is considered one of the Big Four accounting firms, along with Deloitte, EY and KPMG.

The Big Four is the nickname used to refer collectively to the four largest professional services networks in the world, consisting of the global accounting networks.

Global Lawyers Come Together to Achieve Mutual Goal

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CMS is a global law firm that offers legal and tax advisory services. It provides companies and organisations with advice on a full range of legal issues. CMS consists of 17 independent law firms with more than 70 offices worldwide.

CMS announces that RM Partners and Daly & Inamdar Advocates, based in South Africa and Kenya respectively, have today joined the leading global law firm. Going forward, they will be known as CMS RM Partners and CMS Daly Inamdar Advocates.

The addition of these firms considerably strengthens CMS’s presence in Africa, already encompassing Angola, Algeria and Morocco. For over 50 years, CMS has developed a track record of significant deals in Africa, showcasing its deep knowledge of the legal systems across the continent. CMS now has 75 offices in 43 countries and more than 4800 lawyers worldwide.

With this expansion, CMS is unveiling a dedicated organisation that brings together our African firms and experts in a unique model and aligned practices to provide our clients with the best support in Africa.

CMS Africa has a presence in the most dynamic regional hubs – Casablanca, Johannesburg and Nairobi – providing us with a strong footprint, sustained by offices in Algiers, Luanda and Mombasa.

CMS Africa offers the ideal alternative for tax and legal services in Africa, a position that is being reinforced through the addition of the new firms.

CMS We deliver industry-shaping solutions across six core sectors: Energy and Climate Change; Financial Services and Regulation; Infrastructure & Projects; Life Sciences & Healthcare; Real Estate; and Technology, Media & Telecommunications.

Bosch Capital SAPSA advisory firm of the year award

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Bosch Capital has been presented with the 2019 Advisory Firm of the Year Award in the category for Commerce, Law and Management, at the annual South African Professional Services Awards (SAPSA) function, held in Johannesburg recently.

Each year, SAPSA recognises outstanding accomplishments in various fields. Awards are presented for excellence in important areas, including transformation, customer service, contribution to the community and commitment to ethical best practice.

“This esteemed award, which is an honour for the Bosch Capital team, comes as the company celebrated its fifth anniversary in 2018,” says Mike Gibbon, CEO, Bosch Holdings. “We are proud that Bosch Capital has been acknowledged for attributes, which encompass the demonstration of leadership skills, professionalism, resilience and performance excellence.”

Bosch Capital offers advisory, capital raising and investment solutions, which form an integrated financial and engineering solution for clients.

The award was presented to Bosch Capital’s Managing Director, Chris Baloyi, who was also a finalist under the Professional of the Year Award category. Chris had this to say about the company’s win: “We are immensely humbled to have won this prestigious award – it is a great motivator for our team, as we steer the business into the next dimension.”

Bosch Capital is a member of the Bosch Holdings group, a diversified group offering multidisciplinary consulting engineering, skills and development and financial solutions. Another tribute for Bosch Holdings was the SAPSA 2019 Engineering Young Professional of the Year Award, which was presented to Jeshika Ramchund, Lead Engineer – Developments, for Bosch Projects. Bosch Holdings and Bosch Projects were also finalists for the Engineering Large Firm of the Year Award and Engineering Firm of the Year Award, respectively.

DLA Piper Africa claims top spot in M&A for Africa

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For the first time, DLA Piper also claimed the top spot on the Mergermarket league table for M&A (based on deal count) in Africa, it added.

According to Mergermarket, the company has advised 43 deals in the Middle East and Africa combined and 30 deals in Africa alone. The company also ranked high in the Mergermarket league tables in a number of regions around the world, including:

  • 1 Global Deal Count (671)
  • 1 Europe Deal Count (411)
  • 3 US Deal Count (296)
  • 1 Nordics Deal Count (131)
  • 1 UK Deal Count (128)
  • 1 Denmark Deal Count (63)
  • 1 France Deal Count (56)
  • 1 the Middle East & Africa Deal Count (43)
  • 1 Africa Deal Count (30)
  • 1 Russia Deal Count (9)

Johannes Gouws, director and managing partner at DLA Piper in South Africa, said, “We are delighted to be ranked number one for deal count in Africa for the first time. It shows that our M&A strategy in Africa is starting to deliver the results we are aiming for.”

“With 20 DLA Piper and DLA Piper Africa offices in countries right across Africa, and numerous other Africa-specialists from financial markets across the globe, there really is no other law firm that can match our M&A offering on the African Continent,” he added.