Tax Advisers - Deloitte

South Africa
Michael Katz
Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs
150 West Street
Sandown, Sandton, Johannesburg 2196
South Africa
Tel: (27) 11 269 7700
Fax: (27) 11 269 7899
Email: mkatz@problemsolved.co.za
Website: www.problemsolved.co.za
Professor Michael Katz leads ENS as chairman. He has 38 years’ experience in
privatization and deregulation, project finance and non-recourse finance, public
private partnerships, empowerment ventures, banking and financial markets, takeovers
and mergers, competition law and tax.
Michael was the chairman of the Commission of Inquiry to Investigate the Taxation
System of South Africa, member of the Securities Regulation Panel, a director of
numerous companies and a trustee of numerous trusts. In 1998, he was awarded an
honorary doctorate of laws by the University of the Witwatersrand.
He was appointed to the board of National Housing Finance Corporation Limited,
which has been established by the government to facilitate the delivery of affordable
housing, and is the chairperson of the Standing Committee on Company Law of the
Law Society of South Africa.
Michael is featured in the Guide to the World’s Leading M&A Lawyers 2006 and is listed
as a leading individual in International Tax Review’s World Tax 2006 survey for mergers
and acquisitions and cross-border structuring. He recently advised Gold Fields
defending the hostile takeover bid by Harmony, and had a key role on the Sasol/Engen
merger. Michael also acted for Gold Fields in the acquisition of South Deep Mine,
which included the offer to shareholders of Western Areas and Barrick South Africa.
In addition, he acted for Afripalm in its recent transaction with Mvelaphanda
Resources. Michael is also rated as a leading practitioner in tax by the PLC Which
Lawyer Yearbook 2006.
He is co-author of Butterworths Company Law Precedents (four volumes).
Michael received his BCom and LLB from the University of the Witwatersrand, his
LLM from Harvard Law School, and LLD (honoris causa) from the University of the
Witwatersrand. He is admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa.
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