Bill Your Hours, Be Of Service: learn how Webber Wentzel's Sally Hutton balances Corporate and Community
Savvy leader Sally Hutton almost effortlessly displays how a Big Five law firm can thrive while also being of service to the community. Learn more about the managing partner of Webber Wentzel ahead of The Sun International CEO SleepOut™.
Managing partner of Webber Wentzel, Sally Hutton has been straddling between service to the community, while leading one of South Africa's Big Five law firms: “As a firm, this is something that is very much close to our hearts as we recognise our capability and responsibility to make a difference in this country. We also strive to be good corporate citizens, for instance, we also have a pro bono practice; we were the first major law firm to establish a pro bono service in South Africa in 2003 and we also have a lot of CSI initiatives which do focus on poverty alleviation.”
What are Sally's thoughts on the prioritisation of education by The Sun International CEO SleepOut™?: “I think it’s the root out of poverty, which is why it’s so critical. It’s the way that you escape a cycle that you and your parents and your grandparents have been in. Education really is the solution, it’s the most critical element - we think - to alleviating poverty.”
Sally is the managing partner of Webber Wentzel and is a partner in the Corporate/M&A Practice.
She has experience in all aspects of private equity transactional work, but specialises in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), especially leveraged buy-out and exit transactions (both public and private) for private equity funds. Her work includes structuring the consortium and shareholders arrangements, the management participation arrangements, broad-based black economic empowerment (B-BBEE) structures and funding arrangements, as well as reorganisations. She has acted in many of the largest and most high profile private equity transactions done in South Africa in recent years.
Sally's expertise has been recognised by various international research organisations including Chambers Global(Corporate/ M&A, Banking, Finance, Capital Markets), IFLR1000(Capital Markets), Legal 500 (Private Equity), The International Who’s Who (M&A, Private Equity) and Best Lawyers (Corporate Law, Derivatives, Finance Law, Private Equity Law).