Ulrike Erika Brigitte Ursula Naumann

Ulrike Naumann is the head of Finance and partner in the Banking and Finance team. Ulrike obtained her BCom and LLB degrees (both cum laude) from the University of Stellenbosch before undertaking further studies at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. She then worked at the Max Planck Institute for International and Foreign Private Law in Hamburg, Germany as research assistant, before reading for the Bachelor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford. Ulrike worked at a financial institution in the City of London and returned to South Africa in 2006 to join a large law firm where she was part of the banking and finance team before joining Bowman Gilfillan. Ulrike has significant experience in secured and syndicated lending, structured finance and preference share funding transactions, as well as acquisition finance, property finance and leveraged finance (particularly LBOs, both as advisor to senior and mezzanine funders). Ulrike has also been very involved in advising banks and financial institutions on various complicated debt restructuring transactions. Recent major transactions Ulrike has advised on include advising Alexander Forbes Equity Holdings Pty Ltd (and its subsidiaries) in connection with the reorganisation of its capital structure which involved various share buy-backs, redemptions, debt to equity conversions as well as raising new term debt, revolving credit facilities and preference share funding, with the parties to the transaction being situated in South Africa, England, Canada and the United States. Ulrike also recently advised Rand Merchant Bank in connection with term funding advanced to Foodcorp Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of Remgro, in connection with term funding advanced to Foodcorp to fund the redemption of Euro-denominated Notes due 2018. Ulrike also has significant experience in capital markets transactions, with special expertise in advising arrangers and issuers of high yield bonds in the South African and off-shore markets. . Ulrike also advises on fund formation and other private equity related work, and recently advised Rand Merchant Bank in relation to the formation of the RMB Westport Real Estate Development Fund Limited in Mauritius. Chambers and Partners recognised Ulrike’s skills in the Banking and Finance area in the 2014 publication “in recognition of the valuable role she plays on significant financings and the high level of service she offers: "She's phenomenal in getting back to clients and dealing with our views."” Ulrike has worked and lived in South Africa, England and Germany and is fluent in English, Afrikaans and German.

Admission Status:
Practicing Roll

Languages:
Afrikaans, English, German

Direct Contact:
  +27 11 669 9000