Who we serve

Infrastructure and Project Sponsors

Contractors, operators, sponsors and investors building and running critical infrastructure.

IncludingSponsors, developers, EPC contractors, utilities, concessionaires and PPP participants.

Your operating context

Infrastructure is where African projects absorb the highest execution risk — procurement complexity, approvals and legitimacy demands, land and access realities, offtaker and payment risk, supply chain volatility, and claims that harden into disputes and stall delivery. Projects succeed when bankability is engineered early, risk sits with the party best able to manage it, and contracts anticipate delivery as it actually happens.

We protect schedule, margin and performance with bankable delivery contracts and strengthen payment and remedies pathways.

The problems that bring you to us

“We need to reach financial close and the risk allocation is not yet bankable.”
“Payment is slipping and the remedies in our contract are not working.”
“A change in law or scope has triggered a claim we need to run or defend.”
“Interface risk — permits, land, grid connection — is on the critical path.”
“Local content obligations apply across more than one jurisdiction.”

The capabilities we bring

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Infrastructure
We advise throughout the infrastructure lifecycle, combining legal excellence with commercial insight, financial structuring and practical implementation support.
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Energy
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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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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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ESG & Sustainability
The ESG & Sustainability platform exists to help clients embed sustainability into governance, strategy, operations and investment decisions.Our approach extends beyond regulatory compliance. We help clients build resilient institutions, manage emerging risks, strengthen stakeholder confidence and create enduring economic, environmental and social value.
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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.
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Mining
However, mineral wealth alone does not guarantee prosperity. Sustainable value depends on sound governance, responsible investment, access to capital, effective regulation, environmental stewardship, community participation and downstream value addition.The Mining platform exists to help governments, investors, mining companies and financiers unlock the full value of Africa's mineral resources through integrated strategic advisory across the entire mining lifecycle.

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
National energy regulator
Reported
Licence-amendment dispute in the electricity sector
A contested amendment to a major distribution concession put the regulator's authority, and the commercial terms of the country's largest electricity licence, before the courts.
- Disputes
- Energy
- Regulation
Hydropower project
Reported
Procurement and PPP framework for a major hydropower project
A large hydropower development required a procurement and partnership framework capable of surviving public scrutiny while remaining acceptable to an international EPC contractor and its financiers.
- Infrastructure
- PPP
- Energy
Oil and gas development
Reported
Project governance and commercial-risk strategy for an oil and gas development
A high-value oil and gas project needed strategic legal and governance support spanning public approvals, joint-venture alignment, contractual risk and cost recovery, with first production at stake.
- Oil & Gas
- Governance
- Special Situations