Who we serve

Enterprises and Family-Owned Businesses

African and international businesses building, expanding or transforming across the continent.

IncludingFamily businesses to multinationals, across their growth journeys.

Your operating context

Enterprise growth in African markets is rarely limited by ambition. It is limited by whether the business can raise capital on terms it can live with, hold its contracts together through change, and demonstrate the governance that investors, lenders and regulators now expect as a precondition rather than a bonus. For family-owned businesses, a further question sits underneath all of it: whether the enterprise can outlive its founder.

We structure capital that can move, build contracts that protect delivery, and turn technology and intellectual property into protectable, investable value.

The problems that bring you to us

“We are raising capital and the investor's diligence has surfaced problems we did not know we had.”
“The founder has no succession structure and the next generation is not aligned.”
“Our brand, software or know-how is commercially central and legally undocumented.”
“A distributorship, joint venture or shareholder relationship has broken down.”
“We are entering a new African market and do not know what will be enforceable there.”

The capabilities we bring

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Finance
The Finance platform helps clients mobilise, structure, deploy, manage, and protect capital across the entire investment lifecycle.
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Tax, Transfer Pricing & Business Succession
Equally, the continuity of an enterprise depends not only on financial performance, but also on the orderly transition of ownership, leadership and stewardship across generations.The Tax, Transfer Pricing & Business Succession platform exists to help clients make informed decisions that optimise value, strengthen governance and preserve enterprises for the future.
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Technology & Intellectual Property
Technology is transforming every sector of the African economy.
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Disputes & Employment
Disputes are an inevitable feature of commerce, investment and institutional life. They arise when commercial expectations diverge, contractual obligations are contested, regulatory decisions are challenged, or competing interests must be reconciled.While disputes may be unavoidable, prolonged conflict, unmanaged litigation and adversarial positions often destroy value, consume management attention, damage relationships and delay strategic objectives.The purpose of the Disputes & Employment platform is not merely to conduct litigation. It is to help clients anticipate disputes, manage conflict strategically, preserve commercial relationships where possible and achieve outcomes that protect long-term enterprise value and institutional integrity.
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Manufacturing & Industry
The Manufacturing & Industry platform supports governments, investors and enterprises in establishing, expanding and modernising industrial operations that are commercially competitive, environmentally responsible and globally connected.
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Agriculture & Food Security
We advise clients across the agricultural value chain, helping them structure investments, strengthen governance, improve market access, manage regulatory obligations and build resilient food systems capable of supporting Africa's long-term economic development.
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Logistics & Trade
Trade is the lifeblood of economic growth.The Logistics & Trade platform exists to help clients design, finance, govern and optimise trade and logistics ecosystems that support sustainable economic development and regional integration.

Representative experience

Agro-industrial producer
Reported
US$40m bagasse power plant financing
An agro-industrial producer sought to finance a biomass power plant converting a by-product of its core operation into grid-connected generation, requiring both project and corporate financing logic to align.
- Project Finance
- Energy
- Agriculture
Multi-country family-owned manufacturing group
Reported
Family-enterprise continuity architecture for a multi-country manufacturing group
A family-owned manufacturing group operating across several African markets needed to combine ownership, governance, tax and succession into a single continuity plan before the next generational transition.
- Tax
- Succession
- Manufacturing
Global oilfield services contractor
Reported
Tax controversy concerning approximately UGX 22 billion
A multinational contractor operating in the oil and gas sector faced a significant assessment turning on cross-border structuring and the treatment of services delivered into the jurisdiction.
- Tax
- Oil & Gas