Syndicated loan financing transactions - 2025

Discover the intricacies of syndicated loan financing transactions in this detailed course.

Syndicated loans play a pivotal role in corporate finance, and understanding how they work from a legal point of view is essential for lawyers, financial professionals and anyone involved in the world of finance.

Join us for a six-hour course, held over three days.

When and where?

24 to 26 November 2025, 9:00 to 11:00 SAST

This course will be held remotely, most likely on Zoom.

Course outline

The course will cover the following:

• The roles of different parties in syndicated transactions
• Understanding the security SPV structure
• Different types of security
• Senior v mezzanine financing
• Documentation and legal framework
• Lenders’ and Borrower’s perspectives in negotiating finance documents
• Key inter-creditor issues
• Full life cycle of a syndicated transaction

Who will benefit from this course?

This course is aimed at commercial attorneys, paralegals, bankers and corporate employees of borrowers who are involved in different stages of syndicated financing transactions and would like to gain a broad understanding of these types of transactions. Anyone who is interested in a career in banking and corporate finance would also benefit from this course.

Presenters

Tanaka Mparutsa is a PhD Candidate in Commercial Law at the University of Cape Town. Her research interests are predominantly in the areas of contract law, public procurement law, company law, corporate governance and corporate compliance. Ms Mparutsa obtained the degrees LLB (University of Fort Hare), LLM in Commercial Law (University of Cape Town), LLM in International Commercial Law and Practice (University of Edinburgh in Scotland). Through her two LLMs she attained expertise in, inter alia, Advanced Contract Law in South Africa, Contract Law in Europe, Legal Aspects of Corporate Finance, Regional and International Corporate Governance, and Competition Law in Europe. She also practiced predominantly in the areas of government contracts, public procurement law and commercial law in general at Clark Laing Incorporated.

How much?

R2,970 per person

Certificate

A digital certificate of attendance from UCT will be issued to those who attend the full course.

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