Asanda Lembede is an Associate at Fasken in the Corporate & Commercial Practice Group. Asanda specialises in mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, and general corporate law.
Her experience includes advising on domestic and cross-border transactions, conducting legal due diligence investigations, and drafting commercial agreements such as sale of shares and sale of business agreements, ancillary transaction documents, and corporate governance instruments. She has played supporting roles in transactions across diverse sectors, including mining, renewable energy, FMCG and technology infrastructure.
In addition, Asanda has led multi-workstream due diligence investigations, coordinated input from specialist teams, and prepared detailed instructions and reports for integration into transaction documentation. She has also supported regulatory compliance processes and assisted with the fulfilment of conditions precedent, including liaising with third parties.
Her recent work includes supporting public M&A transactions in the mining sector and leading due diligence for acquisitions in the renewable energy industry.
Experience
Her experience prior to joining Fasken includes working at a leading African law firm, where she assisted on a range of complex public and private M&A transactions across the mining, FMCG, renewable energy, technology, and industrial sectors. During this time, she played supporting and lead roles on high‑profile matters, including preparing and reviewing core transaction documentation, coordinating multi‑disciplinary due diligence investigations, and drafting legal memoranda on regulatory and corporate governance issues.
Her work included contributing to major publicly reported transactions such as an acquisition within the mining sector, where she prepared drafting on Takeover Regulations, JSE Listings Requirements and post‑merger governance. She also gained significant experience drafting sale of business and sale of shares agreements, consolidating specialist input for incorporation into transaction documents, preparing negotiation materials, and managing timelines across various workstreams.
In addition, she supported legal services to clients in the renewable energy sector, where she led due diligence on acquisitions of interests in large‑scale solar developments, reviewing corporate records, project contracts, and permitting documents to identify material legal and commercial risks.