Michael Vadelka

Michael Vadelka is an Associate at Al Tamimi & Company, focusing on Mergers and Acquisitions. He has over four years of experience working on mergers and acquisitions, contract drafting, banking and finance transactions, company secretarial matters, compliance and black economic empowerment transactions.

Michael has advised across various sectors including food and agriculture, banking and finance, energy and renewables, information technology and telecommunications, healthcare, and private wealth. He is an admitted attorney in the Republic of South Africa, and prior to joining Al Tamimi he was employed at a leading South African corporate and commercial law firm.

His recent experience includes advising an international group of companies in the digital payments sector on its corporate restructuring and acquisition by an offshore investment company; advising a premier agribusiness and food company on day-to-day legal requirements including company secretarial assistance, opinions, contract reviews, company policy reviews, labour disputes, long-term employment incentive schemes and share buy-backs; advising a prominent holding company in the treatment and manufacturing of luxury accessories and the beneficiation of electronic waste on establishing a local business presence and obtaining the necessary regulatory authorisations; advising a non-profit company specialising in digital health information systems on the use and ownership of intellectual property relating to computer programs; and advising a prominent United Kingdom-based financial institution on a cross-border trade finance facility transaction.

His work has been published in Thomson Reuters and the South African Without Prejudice law magazine. He holds an LLM in Mercantile Law (2019), an LLB (2015) and a BCom (Law) (2013) from the University of Pretoria, and was admitted as an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa in 2021. He speaks English, Italian and Portuguese.