About
Richard Roothman is a Director at Werksmans Attorneys and heads the firm’s Banking & Finance practice. He advises on banking and financial services regulation, capital markets and structured finance matters across the firm’s Africa practice and has been recognised in IFLR1000 rankings for Capital Markets, Banking and Project Finance.
Practice areas
Banking & FinanceCapital MarketsProject FinanceStructured FinanceCorporate / M&ASecuritisation
Office
Expertise
Banking and financial services regulationDebt capital marketsExchange controlLeveraged and acquisition financeLeveraged and management buy-outsProject and limited recourse financeStructured finance transactionsListings/flotations, public offerings and private placementsSecuritisationSyndicated and bilateral financing structures
Education
- BCom (Law), University of Pretoria
- LLB, University of Pretoria
- LLM, Cornell University
- LLM (Tax), University of the Witwatersrand
Admissions
- Admitted attorney (South Africa)
- Admitted attorney (New York, USA)
- Member, Law Society of the Northern Provinces