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ENS adds mining and petroleum expert Andrea Cabanac as an Executive in its Johannesburg office
With more than 600 specialist practitioners, ENS is Africa's largest law firm, with offices in Eastern, Southern and Western Africa. On Friday, it announced Andréa Cabanac was joining the firm as an Executive in its Natural Resources and Environment Practice.
The appointment of Andréa Cabanac as an Executive at ENS reinforces the firm’s continued investment in its mining law capabilities and its commitment to providing integrated, market‑leading legal support to natural resources clients across Africa, says Ntsiki Adonisi, Head of Natural Resources and Environment at ENS.
Andréa brings extensive experience in the mining sector, says the firm, having worked closely with major mining houses across the full lifecycle of mining projects.
A law graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand, who also holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Prospecting and Mining Law, Andréa is currently pursuing an LLM in Mineral Law at the University of Dundee. She began her career as a Candidate Attorney at Norton Rose Fulbright in Johannesburg (now Deneys) in January 2019, rising through the ranks to Senior Associate over several years.
A member of Women in Mining South Africa, Andrea specialises in mining, upstream petroleum, environmental, and administrative law, with particular expertise in mining and upstream petroleum legislative frameworks, legislative reform, mineral title administration, land access and restitution matters, and cross-border advisory work across the natural resources sector.
She advises major local and international mining and upstream petroleum companies on complex regulatory compliance matters, legislative and policy reform processes, mining, exploration and production rights, environmental and land rights matters, transactional due diligence investigations, cross-border resource projects, and disputes relating to mining and upstream petroleum operations.
Andrea also has significant experience in parliamentary and legislative submissions on behalf of the mining and upstream petroleum industry bodies and associations, judicial review proceedings, and strategic engagement with government and industry stakeholders on regulatory reform processes.
She is fluent in English, Afrikaans and French, which ENS says further strengthens the firm’s ability to support clients operating across Francophone jurisdictions.