Amanda Obi has advised a diverse range of clients across multiple jurisdictions on complex corporate and commercial matters. Her experience spans high-value mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, and corporate structuring for multinational corporations. She has played a pivotal role in drafting and negotiating transaction documents, managing multi-jurisdictional due diligence, and coordinating with local counsel and specialist teams to deliver seamless execution. Amanda’s work includes advising on regulatory compliance, governance issues, and cross-border transactions in sectors such as financial services, the processed food manufacturing industry, the industrial chemicals sector and the cybersecurity training industry, amongst others . Her ability to combine technical legal expertise with strategic insight ensures practical, business-oriented solutions for clients operating in dynamic markets.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Amanda has advised:

• A consortium of international development finance institutions with the simplification and streamlining of the capitalisation table of D.Light Design Incorporated, a US-based company into which the consortium are investors.
• Ascension Capital Partners Ultimate GP Proprietary Limited in connection with the proposed acquisition of a portion of the issued share capital of a South African private company, which transaction was ultimately abandoned.
• Establishment of Fortuna Investment Holdings, involving the drafting of a memorandum of incorporation, the drafting of various board resolutions and overseeing the registration of the company with the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission.
• Acquisition of Popcorn Learning Agency, a South African e-learning and development platform, by a USA headquartered corporation.
• Providing regulatory advice to clients based on South Africa’s Companies Act 71 of 2008 and, more generally, the South African regulatory scheme relating to business entities.

Capital Markets

Amanda has advised:

• Cirsa Enterprise’s offering of EUR 700 million aggregate principal amount of EUR 375 million 7.875% Fixed Rate Senior Secured Notes due 2028 and EUR 325,000,000 Floating Rate Senior Secured Notes due 2028, which closed on July 19, 2023.
• AstraZeneca PLC’s offering of EUR 750 million 3.625% Fixed Rate Notes due 2027 and EUR 750 million 3.750% Fixed Rate Notes due 2032, which closed on February 24, 2023.
• Cirsa Enterprise’s offering of EUR 425 million 10.375% Fixed Rate Senior Secured Notes due 2027, which closed on November 9, 2022.
  Arrow Global’s offering of EUR 640 million Floating Rate Senior Secured Notes due 2027, EUR 400 million 4.50% Fixed Rate Senior Secured Notes due 2026 and GBP 350 million 6.00% Fixed Rate Senior Secured Notes due 2026, which closed on November 8, 2021.
  David Lloyd’s offering of EUR 300 million Floating Rate Senior Secured Notes and GBP 645 million 5.50% Fixed Rate Senior Secured Notes due 2027, which closed on June 18, 2021.
• AstraZeneca PLC’s offering of an aggregate principal amount of EUR 700 million Fixed Rate Notes, with coupons ranging from 0.3% for bonds maturing in 2023, to 3.0% for bonds maturing in 2051, and which closed on May 28, 2021.
• Blackstone Property Partners Europe Holdings’ 2023 annual update process.
• Proposed tender offer transaction that involved the preparation of the first draft of the tender offer memorandum (including coordinating reviews and input by the dealer manager, the tender agent and their respective legal counsels) and the initial review of the dealer management agreement.
• Proposed issue of senior secured notes by a European retail company that involved my contribution to the drafting of various sections of the offering memorandum, including the business, risk factors and management discussion and analysis sections, the initiation of the coordination of a sizable and complex due diligence exercise and the population of the virtual data room, and liaising (both via email and calls) with multiple members of the issuer’s personnel in various jurisdictions and departments.