Summary Profile
Allan Reid is a member of the Corporate and Commercial practice and has
extensive experience in mining and minerals law, intellectual property law,
mergers and acquisitions, aviation law and private equity deals.
Career
Allan began his career as a Candidate Attorney at Solomon and Nicholson,
where he was subsequently promoted to Associate. He then joined Slomowitz
Myburgh Cawood & Brits as an Associate and was later promoted to Director.
He was one of the founding partners of Smuts and Reid before joining Savage
Jooste and Adams in 1997 as Head of their Corporate, Commercial and
Intellectual Property Department. Allan joined Cliffe Dekker as a Director in
February 2008 and in September 2008 became a Director of Cliffe Dekker
Hofmeyr.
Education/ Qualifications
BProc LLB, University of the Witwatersrand
Date of admission: 1985
Experience
- Represented Hitachi in negotiations with a Canadian mining company
and a consortium of nine international financiers
- Represented Hitachi in successful negotiations with a major mining
house for the supply and maintenance of mining equipment
- Acted in a private equity deal take-over and restructuring of a major
Canadian food company
- Represented numerous clients in the structuring of mining and mineral
transactions and mining law based litigation
- Advised a major French industrial group with regard to its South
African structures and BEE alliances
- Advised numerous government departments and para-statals with regard
to their contractual and commercial interests
- Advised major clients with regard to compliance issues on mines in
Zambia, Zimbabwe and the DRC
