01Building Value
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.
Our role is to make transactions financeable, bankable, compliant and commercially sustainable — with legal, financial, regulatory and commercial risk allocated where it belongs.
Platform
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Building Value — Mobilising capital and delivering the assets, enterprises and industries on which African economies are built.
Practice engine
FIT
Purpose
The Finance Advisory Platform helps clients mobilise, structure, deploy, manage, and protect capital across the entire investment lifecycle.
Finance is the engine that enables enterprises to grow, governments to deliver infrastructure, financial institutions to intermediate capital, and investors to participate confidently in Africa's development.
Our role is to help clients structure financeable, bankable, compliant, and commercially sustainable transactions that unlock investment while appropriately allocating legal, financial, regulatory, and commercial risk.
Why this matters
Africa requires unprecedented levels of investment to achieve its development aspirations.
The continent is experiencing growing demand for:
Governments, enterprises, financiers and development institutions increasingly require advisers capable of navigating sophisticated financing structures while balancing commercial objectives with regulatory compliance and stakeholder expectations.
The Finance Advisory Platform is designed to meet this need.
- Infrastructure financing
- Energy investment
- Climate finance
- Blended finance
- Project finance
- Corporate finance
- Trade finance
- Capital markets
- Private equity
- Venture capital
- Development finance
- Islamic finance
- Sustainable finance
What clients bring to this platform
- Raising capital efficiently
- Structuring bankable transactions
- Achieving financial close
- Allocating project risks appropriately
- Negotiating financing documentation
- Complying with financial regulation
- Managing lender relationships
- Restructuring distressed financing
- Supporting mergers and acquisitions
- Navigating cross-border investment
- Developing innovative financing structures
- Protecting investments over the long term
What we do
Our Finance Advisory Platform provides integrated advisory services across six core service lines.
Banking & Financial Services
We advise on regulatory licensing, prudential compliance, governance, digital banking, payment systems, financial products, lending transactions, restructuring, and regulatory engagement.
Project & Infrastructure Finance
- Project finance
- Public-Private Partnerships
- Limited recourse financing
- Government Support Agreements
- Direct Agreements
- Security structures
- Financial close
- Refinancing
- Project restructuring
Corporate Finance
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Joint ventures
- Capital raising
- Private equity
- Venture capital
- Corporate restructuring
- Due diligence
- Transaction management
- Investment structuring
Structured Finance
- Asset-backed finance
- Receivables financing
- Securitisation
- Leasing structures
- Warehouse financing
- Commodity finance
- Supply chain finance
- Structured lending
Sustainable & Climate Finance
- Green finance
- Sustainability-linked financing
- Carbon finance
- Climate investment structures
- ESG-linked financial products
- Transition finance
Sovereign & Development Finance
- Sovereign borrowing
- Development programmes
- Multilateral financing
- Concessional lending
- Public investment programmes
- Development finance negotiations
Signature solutions
Defined pieces of work that address the needs this platform meets most often. Each can be scoped and commissioned on its own.
Bankability Review
The Ligomarc Advocates Bankability Method, finance application. A findings report and remediation schedule that tells a sponsor exactly what stands between the project and a credit committee and who must fix what, by when — delivered to the standard a lender's legal department applies to panel counsel.
Financial Close Accelerator
End-to-end management of the path from signed term sheet to first disbursement: documentation, negotiation, approvals, conditions precedent and stakeholder coordination, run against a tracked CP schedule with a single accountable partner. Managed against an agreed path to financial close.
Integrity, AML/CFT & Beneficial Ownership Review
Integrity due diligence, beneficial-ownership transparency, sanctions exposure and anti-money-laundering compliance, assessed at appraisal and written into facility documentation as enforceable covenants so compliance survives supervision rather than aspiring to it.
How we deliver
- Understand the client's strategic objectives
- Assess legal, financial, commercial, and regulatory risks
- Assemble the appropriate multidisciplinary team
- Design the optimal transaction or financing structure
- Lead negotiations and documentation
- Support approvals, implementation, and financial close
- Remain engaged through post-completion monitoring where appropriate
Representative mandates
- Structuring the financing of a national power project
- Advising on syndicated lending for infrastructure
- Supporting a government sovereign financing programme
- Advising a development finance institution on project investments
- Structuring cross-border acquisitions
- Supporting private equity investments
- Advising financial institutions on governance and regulatory reform
- Developing innovative financing models for strategic national projects
Illustrative. Client names and commercial details are withheld where confidentiality obligations apply.
Why Ligomarc
The Finance Advisory Platform is led by professionals with deep expertise in banking, finance, capital markets, project finance, infrastructure, corporate transactions, public finance, and financial regulation.
Working collaboratively across the Firm, the Platform brings together legal, commercial, tax, technology, dispute resolution, and sector specialists to deliver integrated solutions tailored to each client's strategic objectives.
Institutional Experience Applied. Our operating mandate experience shapes how we advise in stress: we have identified, adjudicated and negotiated creditor claims from inside a distressed strategic enterprise, not only from the lender’s side of the table. Our state-side arbitration work informs how we assess sovereign and sub-sovereign contingent liabilities, guarantees and terminal payment exposure — before they crystallise onto a balance sheet.
Platform leadership
Regional & continental frameworks
EAC Common Market Protocol (free movement of capital and services) and the East African Monetary Union Protocol; COMESA Treaty and the COMESA Competition Regulations; the AfCFTA Protocol on Investment; AU Agenda 2063 financial institutions agenda; the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System; Basel prudential standards as domesticated across EAC jurisdictions.
Contribution to the African Purposes
Supports African Family Businesses through acquisition, succession and liquidity financing that keeps ownership African. Advances African Continental Integration through cross-border security structures, regional syndications and multi-jurisdiction closings. Advances African Institutional Stewardship by advising sovereigns, regulators and state-owned enterprises on borrowing, guarantees and contingent liability discipline.
Selected experience
All 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
State development corporation
Ongoing
Structuring a national industrial and economic development fund
A public development institution needed to establish a fund capable of deploying capital into industry at scale, with governance and a regulatory framework able to satisfy both government and external financiers.
- Development Finance
- Government
National electricity and transmission sector institution
Ongoing
Institutional advisory for a public electricity and transmission institution
A public infrastructure institution operating in a regulated, capital-intensive environment needed standing legal and strategic support covering mandate defensibility, procurement and commercial risk.
- Infrastructure
- Energy
- Regulation
Energy sector development institution
Ongoing
Working capital and guarantee schemes for World Bank funded facilities
Concessional capital had to reach energy sector borrowers through instruments that commercial lenders would accept and that the funder's own compliance requirements would permit.
- Development Finance
- Energy
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