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Michael Rudnicki CA(SA)

Michael Rudnicki is an executive in Bowmans’ corporate department and a member of the Johannesburg office tax practice.

Michael has in excess of 20 years’ tax experience and specialises in banking and financial services, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, executive incentive schemes and general corporate tax.

In the financial services sector, he has consulted to most of the local and international banking institutions in relation to balance sheet aspects such as financial instruments and derivatives, working with their in-house mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance teams. His clients include Barclays, Nedbank, Investec, Standard Bank, JP Morgan, UBS and Transaction Capital. Michael has a specific interest in the taxation of financial instruments and derivatives and has presented on numerous occasions on this subject at universities. He has also given public lectures and has appeared on radio and television programmes.

Michael has been involved in many large mergers and acquisitions projects and has consulted to many of South Africa’s leading private equity firms as well as international private equity firms with investments in Africa. His experience includes fund establishment, acquisition assistance and modelling, due diligence (acquisitions and disposals), as well as implementation and post deal implementation assistance and exit readiness. His experience in the private equity sector extends beyond tax advice and includes deal origination and deal sourcing. He also assisted SAVCA in the preparation of its annual private equity survey. Michael advised on the acquisition by ABSA Bank of Barclays Africa, the recent acquisition by RPC of Astrapak as well as the acquisition of McDonalds South Africa. Michael’s private equity clients include Rockwood, Harith, Ethos, Actis, Medu Capital, Capitalworks, DPI, Investec PE and RMB Corvest. He has appeared on many media platforms speaking about his experience and current trends in the local and international private equity market.

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