Angela Itzikowitz

Leaders in Law endorses Angela Itzikowitz as our exclusively recommended Banking & Finance Law expert in South Africa. If you wish to get in touch with Angela please use the contact information provided above.

Professor Angela Itzikowitz is an executive in ENSafrica’s banking and finance department. She specialises in banking and financial market regulation, including finance and regulatory reform, card and related electronic payment instruments, derivatives, loan agreements, collective investment schemes, insurance, money laundering and debt origination and securitisation.

She has done a significant amount of work in South African Development Community (“SADC”) countries such as Uganda, Kenya and Zambia including regulatory law reform through capacity building projects. More recently, she drafted and advised on the Finance and Development Protocol for SADC in her capacity as a senior legal expert. She has also advised the World Bank on deposit insurance and bank insolvencies.

Angela has participated in a number of financial market initiatives in Asia in collaboration with colleagues from Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and India. She also acts for a number of European banks, asset managers and investment advisors.

In addition, she has been recognised as a leading Fintech lawyer, advising banks and start ups and has authored the South African chapter in a number of international publications on the subject.

Angela is a professor in banking and financial markets law at the University of the Witwatersrand and she teaches at Queen Mary College, the University of London, on legal aspects of international finance. She is the author of the Law of South Africa Banking and Financial Markets, has co-authored a number of books and has published numerous articles in local and foreign journals.

She is a member of the Board of International Scholars, London Institute of Banking and Finance, and is a Professorial Fellow at the Asian Institute of International Financial Law, University of Hong Kong. She is also a visiting Professor at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and Peking University, and is the recipient of a number of international fellowships and awards and sits on a number of advisory committees and company boards.

Angela is recognised as a leading/recommended lawyer by:

• Chambers Global Guide 2018, 2017 – Banking and Finance: Regulatory; 2015 – Banking and Finance (South Africa)
• Who’s Who 2018 – Banking, FinTech (South Africa)
• Best Lawyers® 2018, 2017, 2016 – Banking and Finance (South Africa)

Angela has been described by Who’s Who Legal 2018 as ”among the very elite of practitioners in our research thanks to her ‘great regulatory mind’. She is a client favourite thanks to her ability to ‘provide practical solutions that are legally sound’’’.

Angela is fluent in English, Afrikaans and German and speaks South Sotho and Mandarin.

ENSAFRICA’S BANKING AND FINANCE PRACTICE:

ENSafrica’s Banking and Finance Department of over 40 practitioners differentiates itself through high levels of specialisation across the full spectrum of banking and finance work, including financial services regulation, leveraged finance, asset finance, debt finance and trade finance.

The key to the Banking and Finance Department’s success is its large number of senior practitioners who are each dedicated to, and have deep expertise in, specific areas of banking and finance. In addition, the team has competence in English law, with qualified English law practitioners at executive level, as well as practitioners who are qualified to practise French law.

ENSafrica’s Banking and Finance Department works closely with the firm’s other market-leading departments and business areas, including tax, corporate commercial, insolvency and debt recovery, and employment.

ENSafrica is Africa’s largest law firm, with over 600 practitioners, and more than 200 years of experience in high-level, complex commercial work. The firm’s focus is on what’s best for the client and striving for excellence, in both offering and service. ENSafrica is committed to providing clients with cost-effective outcomes by ensuring work is done at the right level, and in the manner that best suits clients’ preferences and pricing structures.

While many recognise the unique opportunities for trade, investment and growth that Africa represents, predicting in-country and across-region risks is not easy, particularly given the rate of exponential change impacting multiple indicators, whether economic, political, technological or social. ENSafrica is an independent law firm with fully integrated offices across Southern, West and East Africa and Mauritius. The firm offers clients many years’ accumulated know-how and solid experience, whether doing business in-country or cross-continent, helping to minimise risk and leverage business opportunities across Africa.

ENSafrica has lawyers qualified to practise English, French and OHADA law, as well as practitioners who are fluent in African and international languages, including Mandarin, Cantonese, French, Portuguese and Swahili. The firm also has a dedicated Asia practice group.

Through the financial services centre of Mauritius, ENSafrica also offers a unique possibility to integrate all aspects of structuring clients’ investments in relation to all commercial areas of law, tax, IP and fiduciary.

Key types of work

ENSafrica’s Banking and Finance Department has significant experience in all areas of banking and finance, including:

• asset finance, including aircraft finance
• collective investment schemes and private instrument funds
• debt capital markets
• derivatives, swaps, repurchase transactions and securities lending
• distressed debt and workouts
• financial products and asset management
• financial services regulation
• general debt
• hybrid debt
• insurance, including export credits
• Islamic finance
• leveraged finance and private equity
• pension funds
• property finance
• securitisations
• structuring and financing of BEE transactions
• structured finance
• trade and commodity finance

ENSAFRICA FIRM PROFILE:

ENSafrica is Africa’s largest law firm, with over 600 practitioners, and more than 200 years of experience in high-level, complex commercial work. The firm’s focus is on what’s best for the client and striving for excellence, in both offering and service. ENSafrica is committed to providing clients with cost-effective outcomes by ensuring work is done at the right level, and in the manner that best suits clients’ preferences and pricing structures.

ENSafrica is an independent law firm with fully integrated offices across Southern, West and East Africa and Mauritius. The firm offers clients many years’ accumulated know-how and solid experience, whether doing business in-country or cross-continent, helping to minimise risk and leverage business opportunities across Africa.

ENSafrica has lawyers qualified to practise English, French and OHADA law, a dedicated Asia practice group, as well as practitioners who are fluent in African and international languages, including

Mandarin, Cantonese, French, Portuguese and Swahili.

Through the financial services centre of Mauritius, ENSafrica also offers a unique possibility to integrate all aspects of structuring clients’ investments in relation to all commercial areas of law, tax, IP and fiduciary.