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Nzame Qokweni

Position: Director: Banking and Finance/Corporate and Commercial

Experience: 23 Years Post Admission Experience

Specialisations: Acquisition Finance, Leverage Finance, Lending And Syndicated Lending, Preference Share Funding, Project Finance, Property Finance, Structured Finance, And Public Finance (PFMA and MFMA Related Funding).

 

Education

  • University of Port Elizabeth
    • Bachelor of Laws (LLB)

 

Certificates

  • Enterprises University of Pretoria
    • Money Laundering Investigation and Detection

 

Awards And Accolades

  • Legal 500 EMEA 2021
    • Banking and Finance – Recommended Lawyer (South Africa)
  • Best Lawyers 2026/27
    • Leveraged Buyout

 

About Nzame

Nzame was admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa on 12 December 2003 and then joined Deneys Reitz Inc as a general commercial attorney. Nzame was a visiting lawyer in the United States of America, at (i) Shearman & Sterling LLP, New York (now A&O Shearman) and (ii) Morgan Stanley, Broadway, New York, U.S.

Before joining Poswa Incorporated, Nzame has practised as a director in the Banking and Finance practices of South Africa’s leading firms, such as ENSAfrica (Edward Nathan Sonnenberg’s Inc) for 5 (five) and a half year, and Norton Rose Fulbright South Africa Inc for seven and a half years.

Nzame regularly advises domestic and international banking, developmental finance institutions and finance clients on range of finance and investment transactions including energy, infrastructure and resources.

Nzame has acted for South African and international clients in a variety of industries and sectors, including government and development financing entities, major financial institutions and energy producers.

Nzame’s transactional finance experience extends to renewable energy, resource finance, agri-finance and asset finance transactions. His experience includes participating in the first-in-country renewable energy projects in South Africa as advisor to financial institutions funding solar and wind projects under the South African Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Program (SAREIPPPP). This experience has extended to other phases of the SAREIPPPP in respect of solar (PV and CSP) and wind.