Our Team

Sibongile articled with Hofmeyers (which subsequently merged with Cliffe Dekker to become Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr) in Cape Town in 1999. His area of focus was commercial litigation, structuring financial transactions, and drafting term and revolving loan facility agreements (including syndicated loans) and security documents for corporate clients, as well as corporate restructures and debt recovery in respect of defaulting clients. He was admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa in 2001.

Towards the latter stages of his articles he focused on property, both conveyancing and commercial property law, and was admitted as a conveyancer in 2002. He practised as a professional assistant with Hofmeyers before joining Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs (ENS) in 2003, in their commercial property department, advising on the structuring of commercial property deals for blue-chip clients and the development of sectional title schemes for high-net-worth clients. He later joined the firm’s commercial department, focusing on mergers and acquisitions and due diligence investigations, gaining experience in drafting sale agreements, competition law, employment law, corporate law and other legislation relevant to these transactions.

Sibongile joined Standard Bank as a Legal Manager in the Credit Risk division in 2007. He managed the lending portfolio and assisted with the negotiation, drafting and conclusion of vanilla and non-vanilla transactions, managing a portfolio with large exposures to corporate clients, parastatals and municipalities.

In 2008 he was appointed Legal Advisor at Land Bank, managing all of the bank’s legal work, and in 2009 he became Manager: Corporate Commercial in Land Bank’s legal department. His main focus there was banking and finance, debt recovery, business rescue and debt restructures, due diligence investigations, and mergers and acquisitions.

Masi is a consultant to MNA’s Corporate and Commercial and Legal Audit work. He has extensive experience in conducting legal audits, having been involved in large-scale audit and review engagements as an external independent legal expert.

He began his career as an associate at Bowman Gilfillan Attorneys (now Bowmans), gaining experience in corporate and commercial law. He then served as Corporate Affairs Manager for Sub-Saharan Africa at Philip Morris International for over six years, responsible for a wide range of global commercial and regulatory aspects of the business. He is a practising attorney of the Gauteng Division of the High Court of South Africa, admitted and enrolled in 2008.

Masi has more than ten years of experience in corporate and commercial law, acting for domestic and multinational clients in sectors including telecommunications, provident funds, state-owned entities and FMCG, in both listed and unlisted environments. His main areas of expertise include corporate and commercial law; audit and forensic investigations; data protection, cybersecurity and information technology law; procurement law; M&A transactions; securitisations; corporate structuring and restructuring; and regulatory compliance.

He also has substantial experience acting for the public sector, including national, provincial and local government and state-owned companies, in transactions and regulatory matters across sectors such as transport, energy, agriculture and forestry.

Siphokazi is a Senior Associate in the Corporate and Commercial and Forensic Investigations practices of Mdyesha Ndema Attorneys. An admitted Attorney of the High Court of South Africa, she completed her articles of clerkship within the firm and brings a thorough command of its corporate advisory, governance, litigation and investigations work.

Her practice is anchored in company law. She advises companies on their obligations under the Companies Act 71 of 2008, corporate governance and company secretarial obligations, and drafts and reviews the commercial agreements that underpin their operations. Her litigation experience, including shareholder and company disputes, gives her advisory work a practical edge.

Within the forensic investigations practice, she conducts misconduct and related investigations, due diligence and compliance enquiries, and reviews of corporate policy, delivering findings and advice that are legally sound and capable of being acted upon.

She has a dedicated focus on mining and prospecting law and the regulatory framework governing mineral rights in South Africa, including the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act 28 of 2002.