Practice Expertise
- international tax
- collective investment schemes
- corporate tax
- private equity
Areas of Practice
- collective investment schemes
- corporate tax
- international tax
- private equity
- retirement funds
- structured finance
- swaps and derivatives
- Tax
- transfer pricing View More
Profile
Magda Snyckers is an Executive at ENS in the tax practice. She specialises in providing tax and exchange control advice to corporates, trusts, funds and other entities in the financial services sector.
Magda’s experience includes advising clients on income tax, capital gains tax, dividends tax, withholding tax on interest, international tax (including double taxation relief), securities transfer tax and exchange controls.
Her experience further includes advising on the South African and cross-border tax and exchange control implications of financing transactions, corporate structures, cross border or international structures, corporate M&A (locally and abroad), as well as investments by pension funds, local and foreign collective investment schemes, hedge funds and private equity funds.
Magda is also an expert in the South African tax aspects of local and international private equity fund formation and transactions as well as the South African tax aspects of venture capital structures.
Magda also assists local and foreign investors with the drafting and submission of exchange control applications, and assists taxpayers with the resolution of their disputes with the South African Revenue Service.
Education
- BLC (University of Pretoria)
- LLB (University of Pretoria)
- LLM in Tax (cum laude) (University of Pretoria)
- Higher Certificate in Financial Markets (The Academy of Financial Markets)
- Admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa
Areas of Practice
- collective investment schemes
- corporate tax
- international tax
- private equity
- retirement funds
- structured finance
- swaps and derivatives
- Tax
- transfer pricing
Professional Career
Professional Activities and Experience
Magda is recognised as a leading and/or recommended lawyer by:
- Best Lawyers® 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018 – Tax (South Africa) ; 2023 – Private Funds (South Africa)
- The Legal 500 EMEA 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021 – Investment Funds (South Africa)
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