Rauna joined ESI in January 2017 as a candidate attorney and is currently an associate in the commercial department.
Her experience has included advising:
- On company law, banking, finance, project structuring and general commercial and corporate matters.
- On and preparing and submitting merger notifications to the Competition Commission of Namibia.
- Various private equity funds, with fund establishment, corporate governance and general fund management and operations.
- On and providing competition law opinions for clients in various sectors, such as advice on the structuring and notifiability of transactions.
- Clients on project and structured financing transactions, in various sectors.
- On and interpreting various commercial agreements; drafting settlement agreements, lease acknowledgement of debt and contract extension agreements.
- On and conducting and preparing due diligence investigations and reports for clients in various industries.
- Clients on board structures, corporate governance, policies and compliance with governing statute.
- On labour law (including initiating of disciplinary hearings) and litigation matters.
- On and acting as agent for the administration of deceased estates with the Master of the High Court.
- On winding-up and liquidation of companies and carrying out voluntary members liquidations of private companies.
- On and preparing trust deeds and setting up of trusts (inter vivos and testamentary trusts), including the provision of general trust law secretarial services.
- On and attending to debt collection matters in the Magistrates Court and High Court of Namibia.
- On general company secretarial work and work pertaining to their on-going corporate governance.
Professional Qualifications
- University of Pretoria (South Africa): BCom (Law) Financial Accounting and Taxation (2014); LLB (2016)
- Admitted as legal practitioner in the High Court of Namibia (2018)
Recognitions
In 2021 and 2023, IFLR1000 awarded Rauna the Rising Star rating.
Membership
- Law Society of Namibia