Matt Venturas leads S-RM’s corporate intelligence work in Sub-Saharan Africa out of our Cape Town office. He advises a range of clients, including development finance institutions, Africa-focused private equity firms, and multinationals, on the market and integrity risks attached to conducting business throughout Africa. Matt focuses primarily on pre-transactional due diligence across the continent, as well as leading in-country investigations on state-owned entities and public-private partnerships, supply chain due diligence, identification of illicit trafficking networks, and cross-jurisdictional asset traces and litigation support. These investigations typically include detailed stakeholder mapping exercises aimed at identifying allegiances and behavioral patterns among political elites and how this impacts local business environments.
Matt holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of KwaZulu-Natal and is an admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa, having practiced commercial and immigration law for five years prior to joining S-RM. He also holds a certificate in ESG investing from the CFA Institute.