Speaker

Jonathan Maphosa is the founder and managing partner of Maphosa Attorneys, a law firm with expertise in banking & financial services regulation (with a focus on sustainable finance and payments regulation), corporate law, commercial law, mining, environmental law, exchange control regulation , and international tax.

Jonathan specialises in commercial law, banking and financial markets regulation, payments regulation, mining law, aviation law and corporate mergers, disposals & acquisitions. He regularly advises South African and international banks (with regional banking licenses and/or representative offices) on all aspects related to legal and regulatory risk, governance risk, the structuring and implementation of cross border financial transactions, bond issuances (including green bonds), the regulatory aspects of payment systems operations; and the merger, disposal and acquisition of heavily regulated banking assets, in South Africa and other African markets.