Capabilities
Fourteen platforms, organised around client outcomes rather than legal departments.
Clients do not buy departments. Each platform is a multidisciplinary gateway to the whole firm, built around a major area of economic activity or institutional importance.
How the work is delivered
Africa’s most consequential mandates rarely respect the boundaries between disciplines. The platforms are not separate businesses; they are designed to be combined, so a client engaging one has the whole firm behind it.
42 signature solutions can be scoped and commissioned on their own.
Fourteen Platforms. One Integrated Suite.
The most significant challenges facing Africa's enterprises, governments and investors do not fit neatly within a single professional discipline. A mining project is not simply a mining assignment. A government reform programme is not simply a governance assignment. A family business succession is not simply a tax assignment.
Every Platform in this Suite serves the full client universe — enterprises, governments, financiers and infrastructure players — across all four AIMS sectors. We do not carve the firm into who may buy what. What differs between Platforms is the question being answered, not the audience.
Each Platform carries its own service lines and three signature solutions. Each signature solution is scoped as a defined deliverable, and each can be commissioned on its own or combined with others under one coordinated leadership structure.
Building Value
Mobilising capital and delivering the assets, enterprises and industries on which African economies are built.
- 01FIT
Finance
Structuring Capital. Enabling Investment. Building Prosperity.
Finance is the engine that lets enterprises grow, governments deliver infrastructure, institutions intermediate capital, and investors participate in Africa's development with confidence.
6 service groups · 38 service lines · 3 signature solutions
- 02FIT
Energy
Powering Africa's Future
No country industrialises, creates jobs or raises living standards without reliable, affordable, sustainable energy.
6 service groups · 48 service lines · 3 signature solutions
- 03FIT
Infrastructure
Building the Foundations of Development
Roads, railways, airports, ports, water systems, telecommunications networks, industrial parks and hospitals are what make trade, investment and productivity possible.
8 service groups · 47 service lines · 3 signature solutions
- 04FIT
Agriculture & Food Security
Feeding Africa. Financing Growth.
Agriculture is Africa's largest employer and the foundation of food security, rural livelihoods and agro-industrial development — and it remains constrained by fragmented value chains, thin access to finance, climate exposure and barriers to regional trade.
7 service groups · 44 service lines · 3 signature solutions
- 05FIT
Mining
Unlocking Africa's Mineral Wealth Responsibly
Africa holds some of the world's richest deposits of gold, copper, cobalt, lithium, graphite, rare earths, iron ore, uranium, bauxite, manganese and phosphates.
8 service groups · 63 service lines · 3 signature solutions
- 06FIT
Manufacturing & Industry
Transforming Resources into Prosperity
Africa's long-term prosperity will not be determined only by what it extracts, but by what it manufactures — higher-value products, skilled employment, domestic supply chains, exports and a broader tax base.
7 service groups · 55 service lines · 3 signature solutions
Protecting & Transforming Value
Preserving enterprise value under stress, resolving what is contested, and protecting what has been created.
- 07FlagshipFIT
Insolvency & Business Restructuring
Preserving Value. Restoring Confidence. Renewing Enterprise.
Downturns, disruption, governance failure and financial distress threaten even strong organisations.
6 service groups · 42 service lines · 3 signature solutions
- 08FlagshipFIT + TED
Strategic Interventions & Special Situations
Leading Through Complexity. Delivering with Confidence.
Some mandates do not fit a professional discipline. They arrive as institutional transition, national priority, enterprise instability, regulatory intervention or contested stakeholder interests, usually under public scrutiny.
11 service groups · 90 service lines · 3 signature solutions
- 09FIT
Technology & Intellectual Property
Powering Africa's Digital Future
Artificial intelligence, data, telecommunications, cloud, cybersecurity, digital finance and digital public infrastructure are changing how institutions govern, how enterprises compete and how citizens access services.
14 service groups · 115 service lines · 3 signature solutions
- 10TED
Disputes & Employment
Resolving Complexity. Protecting Value. Preserving Relationships.
This Platform carries three capabilities under one leadership: commercial and construction disputes; public law, constitutional and judicial review; and employment and workforce.
8 service groups · 54 service lines · 3 signature solutions
- 11TED
Tax, Transfer Pricing & Business Succession
Structuring Value. Preserving Wealth. Securing Continuity.
Tax is one of the strongest determinants of enterprise value, investment performance and long-term wealth preservation.
13 service groups · 111 service lines · 3 signature solutions
Enabling Future Value
Connecting markets, shaping the rules and building the resilience on which the next decade depends.
- 12FIT
Logistics & Trade
Connecting Markets. Enabling Commerce.
Efficient logistics and well-functioning corridors are what let goods, services, capital and investment cross borders, reach markets and lower the cost of doing business.
9 service groups · 72 service lines · 3 signature solutions
- 13FIT + TED
Regulatory Strategy
Shaping the Rules. Strengthening the Institutions.
Regulation is where public purpose meets private capital. Designed well, it attracts investment and protects citizens at the same time. Designed badly, it is challenged and the cost falls on both sides.
9 service groups · 63 service lines · 3 signature solutions
- 14FIT + TED
ESG & Sustainability
Building Resilient Institutions. Creating Sustainable Value.
Sustainability is no longer a separate corporate initiative. It shapes investment decisions, access to capital, regulatory confidence, institutional legitimacy and long-term enterprise value.
8 service groups · 68 service lines · 3 signature solutions
One delivery standard, whichever platform you engage.
These are the four tests institutional readers apply — and the words lenders, boards and auditors use when they apply them.
Financeability
Capital, cashflows, security and enforcement aligned as one system, so projects reach close and stay durable.
Auditability
Risk registers, decision logs, approvals routing and version control that withstand review after the fact.
Enforceability
Dispute architecture and arbitration readiness designed at the outset, because enforceability cannot be retrofitted.
Execution governance
A single accountable partner per mandate, controlled escalation, and reporting matched to the complexity of the work.
Complex institution. Consequential decision. Speak with a Ligomarc partner.
Tell us the nature of the matter and we will route it to the partner accountable for that work.