Andrew Costa

Before his appointment to the board, Mr Costa spent nine years at the corporate and investment banking division of Standard Bank Group Ltd, where he was a director and head of debt capital markets. He was responsible for raising finance for numerous blue-chip South African companies as well as multinationals. Mr Costa was a member of Standard Bank’s focus team that advised on the Municipal Finance Management Act 56 of 2003, the Public Finance Management Act 1 of 1999, and the JSE Debt Listings Requirements. Prior to this, Mr Costa was a director in the corporate law department of attorneys Cliffe Dekker Inc. and specialised in mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings and competition law.