

Bowmans
Tel No: +27 (0) 11 669 9000
Contact: Alan Keep
Designation: Managing Partner
Email: info-jhb@bowmanslaw.com
Website: www.bowmanslaw.com
Address: 11 Alice Lane, Sandton, Johannesburg
Bowmans helps its clients manage legal complexity and unlock opportunity in Africa. Its enviable track record of providing legal services to the highest professional standards on the continent spans corporate, finance, competition, taxation, employment, technology and dispute resolution matters.
With over 400 specialist lawyers, Bowmans draws on its unique knowledge of the business and socio-political environment in Africa to advise on a wide range of legal issues.
The firm delivers integrated legal services from eight offices (Cape Town, Dar es Salaam, Durban, Johannesburg, Kampala, Lusaka, Moka and Nairobi) in six countries (Kenya, Mauritius, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia).
Everywhere it operates, Bowmans offers its clients a service that uniquely blends expertise in the law, knowledge of the local market, and an understanding of their businesses. The firm’s aim is to assist its clients to achieve their objectives as smoothly and efficiently as possible while minimising the legal and regulatory risks.
Bowmans works closely with its Alliance firms, Aman Assefa & Associates Law Office, in Ethiopia, and Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie, in Nigeria. The firm has special relationships with PFI Partnerships in Malawi and Taciana Peão Lopes & Advogados Associados in Mozambique; a non-exclusive co-operation agreement with French international law firm Gide Loyrette Nouel that provides access to lawyers in francophone west and north Africa; regularly works with other leading independent law firms across the rest of Africa; and is a representative of Lex Mundi, a global association of more than 160 independent law firms across the globe.
Meet some of the team...

Ezra Davids
Chairman and Senior Partner
Johannesburg Office
Tel: +27 11 669 9320
Email: ezra.davids@bowmanslaw.com

Alan Keep
Managing Partner
Johannesburg Office
Tel: +27 11 669 9348
Email: alan.keep@bowmanslaw.com

Paras Shah
Managing Partner | Kenya
Nairobi Office
Tel: +254 20 289 9110
Email: paras.shah@bowmanslaw.com

Tholinhlanhla Gcabashe
Co-Head of M&A
Johannesburg Office
Tel: +27 11 669 9491
Email: tholinhlanhla.gcabashe@bowmanslaw.com

Ashleigh Hale
Co-Head of Corporate
Johannesburg
Tel: +27 11 669 9342
Email: ashleigh.hale@bowmanslaw.com

Charles Douglas
Co-Head of M&A
Johannesburg Office
Tel: +27 11 669 9426
Email: charles.douglas@bowmanslaw.com
Articles Published in DealMakers and DealMakers AFRICA
2021 Annual
DMA Q3 2021
Mauritius - the state of AML/CFT compliance
by Rajiv Gujadhur and Sahirun Subadar
Q2 2021
Appraisal rights
by Lance Fleiser and Liesl Oosthuizen
Catalyst Q2 2021
by Heather Irvine
DMA Q2 2021
Restructuring distressed private equity portfolio companies in Kenya – an overview
by Joyce Mbui and Vruti Shah | Bowmans Kenya
Q1 2021
Technology-enabled M&A transactions – the material benefits
by Charles Smith, Dirk Wessels, Cathy Truter, Craig Robinson and Noxolo Tshabalala
DMA Q1 2021
Recent developments in competition law on the African continent
by Tamara Dini and Nazeera Mia
2020 Annual
2021 – some thoughts on the fine balance between increasing tax revenue and stimulating growth
by Robyn Berger
Q3 2020
Unintended tax consequences for some non-residents after lockdown
Esther Geldenhuys
DMA Q3 2020
The year in review - Recent tax developments in Kenya
by Alex Mathini, Andrew Oduor, Terry Mwango, Nikhil Hira, Denis Magonga, and Alex Ndegwa, Bowmans Kenya
Amending preference share terms without triggering tax
by Roné la Grange
Q2 2020
Averting a crisis: Analysis of the finance act, 2020
by Nikhil Hira and Alex Mathini, Bowmans Kenya
DMA Q2 2020
Q1 2020
Key considerations for SA companies wanting to make a success of investing abroad
by Charles Douglas
COVID-19: South African merger control - employment-related conditions to approval of mergers
by Tamara Dini, Richard Bryce and Bongi Maseko
DMA Q1 2020
What new digital taxes contemplated in the finance act mean for digital trade and services in Kenya
by John Syekei, Nikhil Hira, Denis Magonga and Angela Mukora