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Scott Edmundson

partner · Webber Wentzel

South AfricaBanking & Finance, Aviation

About

Scott Edmundson is a partner at Webber Wentzel who specialises in financing transportation assets, including ships, aircraft and rolling stock, and has acted for parties in South Africa, elsewhere in Africa and the United Kingdom on domestic and cross-border bilateral and syndicated transactions. His experience includes Export Credit Agency (ECA)-supported financings, taxed and non-tax-based lease structures, lease portfolio transfers and reorganisations, limited recourse financing, receivables and off‑balance‑sheet structures; he has also spent a term working in the banking and finance department of Allen & Overy in London.

Practice areas

Banking & FinanceAviationShipping & TransportRail FinanceLeasing & Asset Finance

Office

Expertise

Transportation Asset FinanceAviation FinanceShipping (Maritime) FinanceRail / Rolling Stock FinanceECA-Supported FinancingLease Structures & LeasingReceivables FinancingLimited Recourse & Off-Balance-Sheet Structures

Education

  • Programme in Corporate Finance & Business Accounting (cum laude), Wits Business School
  • Higher Diploma in Tax, Rand Afrikaans University, 2001
  • LLB, University of the Witwatersrand, 1997
  • BA, University of the Witwatersrand

Admissions

  • Admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa