Natashua Coetzer

Natashua Coetzer
Partner
Natashua is a partner at Alchemy providing expertise to the firm’s corporate and commercial law disciplines among others. Her proficiency extends across a number of industry sectors. Before joining Alchemy, she was a director of a boutique law firm focusing on corporate and commercial law, including mergers and acquisitions.
Practice focus
Natashua is passionate about mergers and acquisitions. This includes advising clients, composing and structuring documentation and managing the entire transaction life cycle from cradle to grave. Her experience also includes various commercial contracts, corporate and company law, corporate governance, competition law, black economic empowerment and regulatory work.
Major publishable transactions
Mergers and Acquisitions
- Advised a private equity firm in respect of the disposal of Enviroserv to Suez International, including obtaining approval from the competition authorities.
- Advised a private equity fund in respect of the acquisition of a steel roofing company, including obtaining approval from the competition authorities.
- Advised Enviroserv in respect of the acquisition of an additional 50% of the shares in Vissershok Waste Management, including obtaining approval from the competition authorities.
- Advised Bidvest in respect of the acquisition of Dekra Automotive.
- Advised Southern Point Resources in respect of the funding of the Bushveld Minerals Group and acquisition of equity in Bushveld Minerals and some of its subsidiaries.
- Advised the Aveng group in respect of the disposal of its Trident Steel business.
- Advised a private equity fund in respect of the acquisition of a steel roofing company.
- Advised on various disposals and acquisitions in the manufacturing, betting and gaming, precious metals and environmental industries, including obtaining approval from the competition authorities.
- Advised on the team that represented the lottery operator in a hostile takeover by another company.
- Advised various clients on the setting up of employee empowerment trusts and provided general advice to trustees.
Competition Law
- Advised on complaints lodged with the Competition Commission against clients in the environmental and manufacturing industries.