About EC Advisory

Meet the Founder….

Eunice Cross occupied the position as a practicing attorney at Bowman Gilfillan Inc., from 2003 until 2007. In 2007, she joined Absa Bank Limited (Absa Business Bank Division) as in-house legal counsel specializing in acquisitions and leverage finance, trade finance, balance sheet finance and project finance. Within two years at Absa, she was promoted to a senior position of team leader of the Specialised Funding Solutions unit, where she managed a team of 6 lawyers and successfully completed the Absa/GIBS Management Development Programme in 2011. In July 2011 until 30 November 2018 she joined the Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa Limited and worked as legal manager in the legal services department overseeing a team of lawyers and assisting with IDC’s local and international financing transactions.

In her respective employments, she was able to participate in facilitating funding for industrial and infrastructure projects both locally and in the rest of Africa. She is therefore well positioned in occupying a strategic position for directly engaging and understanding the complexities entailed in the business world both at macro and micro-economic levels.

The Founder’s voice and experience prevail in the following key milestones, amongst many:
  • Legal support (including transactions structuring, contract review, drafting and negotiation, and due diligence investigations) to the Corporate Funding Department of IDC with regards to its capital raising mandate, with French, Chinese, German and American financial institutions and local financial institutions (Absa, Nedbank, FNB, Standard Bank).
  • Lead lawyer in IDC funded projects, namely hotel construction projects in Uganda and Ghana, an airport construction project in Senegal, gas power project in Mozambique, tree farming project in Mozambique, LPG pipeline and infrastructure project in Ghana, local mining projects, credit lines to other development finance institutions in Zimbabwe and rest of Africa, and local renewable energy independent power projects.
  • Legal support in respect of IDC’s funding products, namely its debt and equity instruments, bonds, trade finance facilities and export finance facilities.
Areas of Specialization

Corporate Law, Commercial Law, Banking & Finance Law, International Law, General Contract Law

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor of Arts (Wits)
  • Bachelor of Laws (LLB) (Wits)
  • BA Honours in International Relations (Wits)
  • Master of Laws in Commercial Law (LLM) (Wits)
  • Currently a PHD Candidate at Wits Business School

Eunice Cross

BA Law, Honours, LLB, LLM, PHD (candidate)
ECAdvisory Proprietary Limited
Registration No: 2019/291113/07

Contact Info

Tel:
(+27) 83 648 1254
E-mail:
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Postal Address:
Suite 87,
Private Bag X2,
Lonehill, 2062,
Gauteng, South Africa

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