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Mohamed Sajid Darsot

Executive | Corporate Commercial
mdarsot@ENSafrica.com
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practical experience

Mohamed Sajid Darsot is an Executive in ENSafrica’s corporate commercial practice and specialises in mergers and acquisitions (including cross-border), private equity and B-BBEE transactions, as well as corporate restructures.

Mohamed is an expert in broad-based black economic empowerment (B-BBEE) advisory, structuring and implementing transactions across a wide variety of industries in accordance with the B-BBEE legislation.

Mohamed has acted for clients (including listed, unlisted and multinational firms) in a variety of sectors including the telecoms, mining, automotive, transport and logistics, fuels and energy, healthcare, and property development industries. Mohamed co-authored the South African Country Chapter on Corporate Governance in Getting the Deal Through - Corporate Governance (2011 and 2012 editions) and the South African country chapter on the first edition of the Private Equity Review (2012 edition).

He also co-authored the South African country chapter on Corporate M&A, Chambers Legal Practice Guides (2013 edition).

He is also a non-executive director of Melomed Hospital Holdings Limited, a Cape-based private hospital group.

Mohamed is recognised as a leading/recommended lawyer by:

Best Lawyers® 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 – Mergers and Acquisitions (South Africa)

area of expertise

BROAD-BASED BLACK ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT (B-BBEE) CORPORATE COMMERCIAL INDIA

qualifications

BSocSc (University of Cape Town)
LLB (University of the Western Cape)
LLM (University of Cape Town)
International Capital Markets Qualification (South African Institute of Financial Markets)
Admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa