Trading Places
STEPHEN Kennedy-Good rejoins law firm Norton Rose Fulbright as a director in the commercial team, and Haroon Laher will join as a director from Bowmans.
Kennedy-Good, who won the general corporate category for South Africa in the 2015 International Law Office Client Choice Awards, will focus on mergers and acquisitions.
He advises clients on corporate law and issues arising from JSE listings requirements.
Laher brings considerable experience in large restructuring, complex negotiations and insolvency litigation. He advises major banks, financial institutions, business rescue practitioners, liquidators and secured and unsecured creditors. He lectures, and has written extensively, on insolvency and business rescue-related topics. THE Richards Bay Industrial Development Zone has appointed Ntwanano Mtungwa the executive manager for the business development and support unit.
He began his career in 2007 as a trade and investment adviser for the Mpumalanga Economic Growth Agency and was later promoted to investments manager.
In 2013, Mtungwa was employed as the head of investment facilitation at the Gauteng Growth and Development Agency.
He has a BCom and a certificate in project management. LEE Naik is to become regional president of the operations of TransUnion, a global information solutions provider, in Africa.
In his new role, Naik will apply his expertise in technology to further TransUnion’s ability to deliver innovative solutions to the market.
He has spent the past 18 years with Accenture, where he was most recently MD for Accenture Digital in sub-Saharan Africa. Before that he worked in IT strategy and technology consulting.
Naik has a BSc in computer science. HOSPITALITY and gaming group Peermont Hotels Casinos and Resorts has made Nigel Atherton the new group CEO; Thabo Mokoena, previously the joint acting CEO and development executive of the group, has been appointed his deputy.
Atherton is a chartered accountant who worked as an auditor at KPMG. At Peermont he has been joint acting CEO and Emperors Palace complex operations executive. Mokoena, who has a BCom, joined the group when Peermont acquired Tusk Resorts in 2006. He worked as regional chief operating officer.