03Building Value
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.
This Platform delivers those assets from concept through financing, procurement, construction, operation and long-term stewardship.
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
Infrastructure is the backbone of every modern economy. Roads, railways, airports, ports, water systems, telecommunications networks, industrial parks, hospitals and public facilities enable trade, attract investment, improve productivity and enhance quality of life.
The Infrastructure Advisory Platform exists to help clients successfully deliver these assets from concept through financing, procurement, construction, operation and long-term stewardship.
We advise throughout the infrastructure lifecycle, combining legal excellence with commercial insight, financial structuring and practical implementation support.
Why this matters
Africa's infrastructure deficit remains one of the continent's greatest barriers to economic growth.
Closing that gap requires trillions of dollars in investment, stronger institutions, innovative financing, effective procurement, sound governance and disciplined project execution.
Infrastructure projects are also becoming increasingly sophisticated. They frequently involve multiple governments, financiers, contractors, regulators, development partners and local communities. Success depends on coordinating these stakeholders while managing technical, legal, financial, environmental and political risks.
Ligomarc brings together the multidisciplinary capabilities needed to support these complex programmes and projects.
What we do
Infrastructure Planning and Project Preparation
- Feasibility support
- Project structuring
- Institutional readiness
- Regulatory strategy
- Land access strategy
- Stakeholder mapping
Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs)
- PPP strategy
- Project structuring
- Procurement support
- Concession agreements
- Government support agreements
- Financial close
Transport Infrastructure
- Roads
- Bridges
- Railways
- Airports
- Inland waterways
- Ports and logistics hubs
Social Infrastructure
- Hospitals
- Universities
- Schools
- Public housing
- Government facilities
- Sports infrastructure
Digital Infrastructure
- Fibre networks
- Data centres
- Telecommunications infrastructure
- Smart cities
- Digital public infrastructure
Water and Environmental Infrastructure
- Water supply systems
- Irrigation
- Wastewater treatment
- Flood management
- Solid waste management
- Climate resilience infrastructure
Infrastructure Finance
- Project finance
- Development finance
- Infrastructure funds
- Blended finance
- Sovereign financing
- Refinancing
Construction and Contract Management
- EPC contracts
- FIDIC contracts
- NEC contracts
- Claims management
- Contract administration
- Project governance
Signature solutions
Defined pieces of work that address the needs this platform meets most often. Each can be scoped and commissioned on its own.
Integrated Infrastructure Project Development Programme
One coordinated team from feasibility to handover: land and wayleaves, permits and approvals, procurement, EPC and O&M contracting, financing and commissioning — including the delivery assurance that keeps governance intact and momentum unbroken while the project is being built.
PPP Structuring Programme
A bankable PPP from identification to financial close: feasibility, procurement design, negotiation, risk allocation and financing structure, built to satisfy both the public authority's mandate and the lender's security package.
Infrastructure Recovery Programme
For delayed, distressed or disputed projects: a diagnosis of what actually stopped the works, a renegotiation strategy where the arrangement can be saved, and a claims or exit position where it cannot — with a decision recommendation, not a menu.
How we deliver
- Strategic planning and project preparation
- Legal, commercial and institutional structuring
- Procurement and contracting
- Financing and financial close
- Construction oversight and contract administration
- Commissioning and operational readiness
- Long-term governance, optimisation and dispute avoidance
Representative mandates
- Advising on the financing and development of a regional transport corridor
- Supporting the procurement of a major public-private partnership
- Advising lenders financing strategic infrastructure
- Assisting governments with national infrastructure programmes
- Supporting contractors in managing construction claims
- Advising project sponsors through financial close and implementation
- Structuring governance frameworks for large infrastructure programmes
Illustrative. Client names and commercial details are withheld where confidentiality obligations apply.
Why Ligomarc
Infrastructure is rarely just about construction. It is about mobilising capital, coordinating institutions, managing complex stakeholder relationships and delivering assets that create lasting economic and social value.
Ligomarc brings together expertise across finance, energy, technology, tax, disputes, ESG, logistics and public sector governance to provide integrated strategic advisory throughout the infrastructure lifecycle. Our multidisciplinary approach enables clients to move confidently from concept to completion while maintaining commercial discipline, regulatory compliance and effective governance.
The Road Ahead
The next chapters will build out:
These three chapters will be closely linked and will present a coherent value-chain narrative---from agriculture and extraction through manufacturing and industrial transformation---reflecting Africa's development priorities.
Institutional Experience Applied. Concession exit is where infrastructure value is won or lost, and we have conducted it from the State side in international arbitration — terminal payments, handback condition, disallowed capital and the evidential burden each carries. Our stewardship experience adds the operational half: asset identification and verification, service continuity, and procurement and disposal processes designed from the outset to survive audit and judicial review.
Platform leadership
Regional & continental frameworks
PIDA and the PIDA Priority Action Plan; AU Agenda 2063 flagship projects including the African Integrated High Speed Railway Network and the Single African Air Transport Market; the Northern Corridor and Central Corridor transit and transport agreements; EAC infrastructure and roads network programmes; the AfCFTA Protocol on Trade in Services; national PPP and public procurement legislation and the constitutional accountability provisions that govern public expenditure.
Contribution to the African Purposes
Advances African Continental Integration through corridors, cross-border assets and harmonised procurement. Advances African Institutional Stewardship through procurement integrity, contract management capability and fiscal discipline on contingent liabilities. Honours African Culture & Heritage through land, resettlement, heritage-site and community consent frameworks.
Selected experience
All experience →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
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
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
National transmission company
Reported
UNCITRAL arbitration concerning a consultancy dispute
A consultancy engagement on transmission infrastructure broke down into a USD 1.257m claim requiring resolution under international arbitral rules.
- Arbitration
- Infrastructure
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