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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.
They require more than technical advice. They require leadership under scrutiny.
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Practice engine
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Purpose
Not every mandate fits neatly within a traditional legal or advisory discipline.
Some assignments arise from institutional transition, strategic national priorities, enterprise instability, regulatory intervention, public scrutiny, contested stakeholder interests or urgent implementation challenges. They require more than technical advice. They demand trusted leadership, coordinated multidisciplinary execution and the ability to make sound decisions in circumstances of complexity and uncertainty.
The Strategic Interventions & Special Situations Advisory Platform supports clients in these exceptional circumstances.
Why this matters
Complex institutional and enterprise challenges are rarely caused by one issue.
They may involve:
Conventional advisory approaches often address each problem separately. Ligomarc approaches the mandate as one integrated situation.
We identify the governing objective, establish the decision architecture, organise the workstreams, coordinate the relevant disciplines and support implementation through a single strategic framework.
- Weak or fragmented governance
- Financial and operational instability
- Unresolved legal and regulatory exposure
- Public or parliamentary scrutiny
- Multiple agencies or decision-makers
- Sensitive stakeholder interests
- Incomplete records or contested assets
- Strategic national or public-interest considerations
- Time-sensitive implementation obligations
- Significant reputational and institutional risk
What we do
Strategic Institutional Interventions
- Institutional diagnostics
- Strategic reviews
- Governance interventions
- Mandate and authority clarification
- Decision and accountability frameworks
- Organisational stabilisation
- Leadership and transition support
- Institutional recovery programmes
Government and Public Institution Transformation
- Public-sector reform
- Institutional restructuring
- Agency transition and dissolution
- Statutory implementation programmes
- Government-led recovery initiatives
- Public asset regularisation
- Multi-agency coordination
- Institutional capability development
- Public-sector governance reform
Strategic Enterprise Interventions
- Enterprise stabilisation
- Governance failure
- Strategic asset recovery
- Leadership transition
- Operational disruption
- Business continuity
- Enterprise transformation
- Stakeholder confidence restoration
National Priority Mandates
- Nationally significant assets
- Strategic public enterprises
- Major economic interventions
- Government-wide implementation
- Public accountability
- Complex legal and institutional architecture
- Multiple ministries, agencies and regulators
- Cabinet, parliamentary or judicial oversight
Independent Reviews and Assessments
- Governance and decision-making
- Institutional effectiveness
- Programme performance
- Strategic options
- Enterprise viability
- Asset and liability positions
- Regulatory and statutory compliance
- Implementation readiness
Complex Transactions and Transitions
- Strategic divestitures
- Distressed or sensitive acquisitions
- Public asset transfers
- Institutional mergers or separations
- Statutory transitions
- Multi-party negotiations
- Time-critical transactions
- Orderly wind-up and closure programmes
Crisis and Reputation Governance
- Regulatory intervention
- Governance breakdown
- Major investigations
- Operational failure
- Cyber or technology incidents
- Stakeholder conflict
- Public communications risk
- Board and executive accountability
Programme Leadership
- Programme governance structures
- Steering committees
- Workstream architecture
- Reporting and escalation protocols
- Risk and issue registers
- Decision logs
- Stakeholder engagement plans
- Implementation dashboards
- Exit and sustainability arrangements
State-Owned Enterprise Mandates
State-owned enterprises concentrate the hardest problems in public administration: commercial obligations, political ownership, contested governance and, frequently, balance sheets that no longer support the mandate. We advise on the full range of intervention.
- Mandate review: what the entity was created to do, what it now does, and whether the two can be reconciled
- Legal form conversion, incorporation, merger, transfer and rationalisation
- Recapitalisation, sovereign guarantees, contingent liability treatment and creditor negotiation
- Board reconstitution, governance frameworks, performance contracts and shareholder arrangements
- Separation of policy, regulatory and commercial functions held in one institution
- Asset and liability separation, good bank / bad bank and successor entity structures
- Staff transition, pension liability and union engagement
- Partial or full divestiture, strategic investor processes and public offerings
- Orderly wind-down, residual liability management and archive transfer
Cabinet & Executive Mandates
- Cabinet memoranda, options papers and the legal basis for executive decision
- Inter-ministerial committees and whole-of-government task forces
- Statutory instruments, commencement orders and vesting instruments giving effect to a decision
- Parliamentary engagement, committee appearance support and legislative strategy
- Co-ordination with the Attorney General, Solicitor General and the accountability institutions
- Sequencing of legal, fiscal and political steps so that an intervention holds together
Custodial, Legacy & Expropriated Asset Institutions
Some of the most difficult mandates in African public administration involve institutions holding assets taken into custody decades ago, under legal regimes that have since changed, with incomplete records, competing claims and long-settled expectations on all sides. Resolving them requires constitutional discipline, forensic patience and political realism in equal measure.
- Reconstruction, verification and reconciliation of asset registers and title records
- Adjudication frameworks for competing, derivative and fraudulent claims
- Repossession, restitution and compensation regimes, and the constitutional property guarantees that govern them
- Limitation, prescription and the treatment of long possession and third-party purchasers
- Regularisation of title and the clearing of historic encumbrances
- Management and rationalisation of large legacy litigation portfolios
- Recovery of assets improperly disposed of, and the evidential burden that entails
- Institutional wind-up: mandate closure, residual liability transfer, successor arrangements and the disposition of records and archives
- Public communication and stakeholder management on matters of long-standing public sensitivity
Signature solutions
Defined pieces of work that address the needs this platform meets most often. Each can be scoped and commissioned on its own.
Strategic Intervention Programme
A rapid multidisciplinary intervention for an institution or enterprise facing a complex governance, operational, financial or regulatory challenge — stabilisation first, then a structured transformation programme with sequencing, owners and a public position that holds.
National Priority Mandate Architecture
The governance, legal and implementation framework for programmes spanning multiple public institutions and significant public interest — the decision rights, consultation obligations and accountability structures required where governments, regulators, investors, financiers, employees and communities all have standing. Built to survive a parliamentary committee, not only a steering committee.
Transition & Orderly Closure Programme
End-to-end support for institutional transfer, dissolution and winding-up: asset regularisation, records management, claims adjudication, residual liability resolution and the constitutional basis for each step — so that what is closed stays closed and what is transferred cannot be reopened.
How we deliver
- Clarify the mandate, authority and strategic objective
- Conduct a rapid multidisciplinary diagnostic
- Map institutions, stakeholders, exposures and dependencies
- Develop strategic options and decision criteria
- Establish governance, workstreams and reporting protocols
- Design the intervention and implementation roadmap
- Lead or support disciplined execution
- Monitor risks, decisions, milestones and stakeholder commitments
- Stabilise, transform, transition or close the institution or programme
- Transfer capability and embed long-term sustainability
Representative mandates
- Designing and implementing the transformation of a public institution
- Supporting the stabilisation of a strategically important enterprise
- Advising on the recovery or transfer of a national asset
- Leading a multi-agency transition or closure programme
- Conducting an independent governance and institutional review
- Supporting a board through a major regulatory or operational intervention
- Developing the implementation architecture for a national priority programme
- Coordinating legal, financial, operational and stakeholder workstreams in a consequential institutional mandate
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Why Ligomarc
Strategic interventions require more than legal analysis. They require institutional judgement, implementation discipline, stakeholder credibility and the ability to integrate multiple disciplines into a single response.
Ligomarc combines capability across finance, governance, restructuring, public institutions, disputes, technology, tax, infrastructure and stakeholder management. This enables us to support clients from diagnosis and decision-making through execution and institutional strengthening.
Through this Strategic Advisory Platform, Ligomarc helps Enterprises, Governments, Financiers and Infrastructure Players build, finance, govern, transform and protect institutions, investments and enterprises that contribute to Africa's long-term prosperity.
Institutional Experience Applied. This Platform draws on both of our institutional foundations at once — a constitutional office and the operational reality of running a strategic national asset under court appointment. That combination is rare, and it is the reason our interventions are designed from the outset to survive judicial review, audit, parliamentary scrutiny and public opinion simultaneously.
Platform leadership
Regional & continental frameworks
National constitutions and their accountability chapters — public finance, audit, ombudsman and anti-corruption institutions; public finance management and public procurement legislation; the AU Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption; the African Charter on Values and Principles of Public Service and Administration; the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance; the African Peer Review Mechanism.
Contribution to the African Purposes
Advances African Institutional Stewardship directly and as its primary purpose — this platform exists to make African state institutions work. Honours African Culture & Heritage where contested historic assets carry community, cultural and restitution dimensions. Advances African Continental Integration where strategic assets and their creditors sit across borders.
Selected experience
All experience →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
Public asset and claims institution
Reported
Resolution and orderly closure of a public institution's legacy claims
A public institution holding complex legacy assets, records and litigation needed a resolution and dissolution architecture capable of closing out claims in a way that would not reopen them.
- Restructuring
- Government
- Special Situations
Strategic national digital infrastructure
2020–2022
Court-supervised administration of Uganda Telecom Limited
A strategic national telecommunications asset had failed, with creditors including a development finance institution, employees and the state all holding competing claims, and no operating stability from which to negotiate any of them.
- Special Situations
- Restructuring
- Government
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