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Shakila Khan
Khan Corporate Law · Botswana
Khan Corporate Law
Mergers & Acquisitions · Botswana
Shakila Khan is the Founding and Managing Partner of Khan Corporate Law and has more than 17 years’ experience practising law in Botswana.
She holds an LLB (Hons) (University of Westminster), an LLM (University of London) and a BVC / Post-Graduate Diploma in Professional & Legal Skills (Inns of Court School of Law, City University). She is qualified as a Barrister (non-practising) in England and Wales and is a member of the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn, as well as being a member of the Law Society of Botswana.
Shakila has acted for a wide range of international and domestic clients via an interdisciplinary practice that spans mining, corporate M&A, banking and finance, capital markets, as well as financial services. She was the first Motswana woman to be recognised in Chambers Global Guide, having been ranked as a Leading Lawyer consistently from 2013–2024. She was also the first lawyer to be ranked outside of the three traditional law firms in Botswana.
She established Khan Corporate Law in 2010 as a 100% citizen and female-owned niche corporate law firm. Her recent transactions include:
Corporate/M&A
● Legal Counsel to Fujax Minerals and Energy Limited and Butler Phirie N.O. in an application to put Leboam Holdings Limited t/a Mowana Copper under Judicial Management (2018–2019);
● Legal Counsel to Fujax Minerals and Energy Limited and Butler Phirie N.O. in an application to put Cradle Arc Investments Proprietary Limited in provisional liquidation, and to negotiate a settlement of their claims with an investor as part of a broader restructure of Leboam Holdings Limited t/a Mowana Copper (2020–2022).
Banking & Finance
● Local legal counsel, alongside Webber Wentzel South Africa, as counsel to Absa Bank Botswana Limited and Stanbic Bank Botswana Limited as Lenders and Joint Sustainability Coordinators to Norsad Capital Limited in terms of a Sustainability-Linked Term Facilities of ZAR 680 million (2023);
● Botswana legal counsel – alongside ENS South Africa – to Greenpoint Specialised Lending Proprietary Limited in respect of the cancellation of previous security taken over a Borrower’s Botswana subsidiary and the provision of new security, following a Borrower Group restructure, to Greenpoint (2023–2024).
Capital Markets
● Legal Adviser to the Arranger and Issuer on the Establishment of Botswana Savings Bank’s BWP 1 Billion Note Programme and the inaugural Notes issuances thereunder (2022), as well as a further Note Issuance (2023).
Mining, Energy, Infrastructure & Natural Resources
● Legal Counsel to Botswana Diamonds Plc on the due diligence and negotiation of the share purchase agreement in relation to the purchase of Gem Diamonds Botswana from Gem Diamonds Limited (2021).
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