Vanessa van Coppenhagen Director | corporate commercial [email protected] mobile +27 83 411 3558 "passionately curious" praccal experience Vanessa van Coppenhagen is a director at ENSafrica in the corporate commercial department. She has been praccing as a director since joining the firm in 2006. Vanessa specialises in mergers and acquisions and commercial IP, media, hotel and entertainment law and general corporate commercial law. She has a strong commercial legal acumen, bringing a solid track record of working on and execung various mergers and acquisions transacons; commercial IP and media transacons; and other commercially driven legal projects, acng for a number of private and public (listed) companies, both locally and offshore, including many large corporaons in the in the mining sector, as well as for public charity / public foundaon clients. Vanessa is known for her technical and creave skills, her client-centred approach and her ability to lead large transacons that require collaboraon across various business units. Vanessa has also been privileged to serve as long-standing external counsel to the Nelson Mandela Foundaon (a non-profit and educaonal centre founded by the iconic polical leader and former President of the Republic of South Africa, Mr Nelson Mandela). As external counsel, Vanessa has, for over a decade, acted for and advised the Nelson Mandela Foundaon on a variety of legal transacons, including the development of Nelson Mandela’s post presidenal residence into a fellowship centre / five star graded bouque hotel and publishing, film and exhibion/ art-work licensing and distribuon arrangements. Vanessa is recognised as a leading/ recommended lawyer by Best Lawyers 2019 (Mergers and Acquisions Law), South Africa. Vanessa is recognised as a leading lawyer by IAM Licensing 250 - patent and technology licensing. She is also an Associate member of the South African Instute of Intellectual Property Lawyers (SAIIPL) Vanessa has lectured Intellectual Property law part me at the University of the Witwatersrand and has presented guest lectures at the University of the Witwatersrand, the University of Johannesburg and at the South African School of Moon Picture Medium and Live Performance (AFDA) on the subject of Intellectual Property law. Vanessa has co-authored South Africa’s contribuon to the UN’s and Harvard University Corporate Law Tools Project with Professor Michael Katz, which deals with the Mandate of the Special Representave of the Secretary-General (SRSG) on the issue of Human Rights and Transnaonal Corporaons and other Business Enterprises. Vanessa has also contributed to the South African chapter of a book relang to corporate law, together with Professor Michael Katz. She has also contributed a chapter on Entertainment Law in The Law of South Africa. Vanessa has wrien an arcle on Copyright Valuaon which is published in The South African Mercanle Law Journal, an arcle on Mulmedia Works as Cinematograph Films which is published in The South African Law Journal; and an arcle entled "Copyright and the WIPO Copyright Treaty, with specific reference to the rights applicable in a digital environment and the protecon of technological measures" which was published in The South African Law Journal. Vanessa is recognised as a leading/recommended lawyer by: Best Lawyers® 2021, 2020 – Mergers and Acquisions (South Africa) qualificaons BA (University of the Witwatersrand) LLB (University of the Witwatersrand) LLM (University of the Witwatersrand) Diploma in Corporate Law (University of Johannesburg) Cerficate in Advanced Company Law I (University of the Witwatersrand) Cerficate in Advanced Company Law II (University of the Witwatersrand) Admied as an aorney of the High Court of South Africa.