Signature solutions
Work you can scope, price and commission on its own.
Most advisory relationships begin with something smaller than a full mandate. These are the defined pieces of work our platforms are asked for most often — each with a clear scope, a clear output and an accountable partner.
Why these exist
A general counsel deciding whether to instruct a new firm rarely starts with the largest thing on their desk. 42 defined solutions across fourteen platforms give a serious institution a way to test the firm before it commits the consequential work.
Three methods, not confined to one platform
Three solutions are not confined to one platform. They are firm methods, applied across sectors — the same test or framework, applied identically wherever it is relevant.
The Ligomarc Advocates Bankability Method
One test, six sector applications.
One question, asked before the money is asked for: is this financeable, and if not, what must be fixed first?
A structured multidisciplinary review of a project or enterprise against the standard capital will actually apply — legal, financial, regulatory, commercial and governance readiness — delivered as a findings report, a remediation schedule with owners and dates, and a readiness opinion the sponsor can put in front of a lender or an investment committee. The Method is the same in every sector; what changes is what is tested.
The Ligomarc Advocates Local Content Method
One framework, three sector applications.
Local content obligations met, and domestic capability actually built, without making the project uncompetitive.
A compliance and capability framework that maps the statutory obligation, audits the current supply chain and workforce against it, and delivers a phased participation plan, contract clauses that make the plan enforceable down the supply chain, and the reporting a regulator and a lender will each accept.
Constitutional & Administrative Risk Review
The discipline behind every public-institution mandate we take.
Testing a decision before a court does.
The firm's signature public-law discipline: a decision, an instrument, an appointment or a transaction structure tested against constitutional and administrative-law standards — vires, process, proportionality, natural justice and the record — with the defects identified and the record repaired while repair is still possible.
Building Value
Mobilising capital and delivering the assets, enterprises and industries on which African economies are built.
Building Value
6 platforms · 18 solutions
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Finance
Structuring Capital. Enabling Investment. Building Prosperity.
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.
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Energy
Powering Africa's Future
Integrated Energy Project Development Programme
One coordinated team carrying an energy project from concept to operation — structuring, permits, land, power purchase and offtake agreements, EPC and O&M contracting — under one named partner, from first approval to commercial operation date.
Energy Local Content Programme
The Ligomarc Advocates Local Content Method, energy application. A phased participation plan, enforceable supply-chain clauses and regulator-ready reporting that satisfy local content obligations while building African skills, suppliers and jobs without pricing the project out of the market.
Utility Governance Transformation Programme
A governance reform programme for utilities and state-owned energy enterprises: board composition and mandate, performance and accountability frameworks, commercial discipline, and the sequencing to implement them. Designed by people who have run a distressed public enterprise, not only advised one.
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Infrastructure
Building the Foundations of Development
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.
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Agriculture & Food Security
Feeding Africa. Financing Growth.
Agricultural Investment Readiness Review
The Ligomarc Advocates Bankability Method, agriculture application. What stands between an agribusiness and commercial or development capital — aggregation and offtake, land tenure, climate exposure and insurability, cooperative governance — identified, priced and scheduled for remedy before the investor arrives.
Agro-processing Accelerator
The full path to a commercially viable processing facility: siting and land, licensing and standards compliance, offtake and supply agreements, equipment contracting and the financing structure to fund it — so raw output becomes a product with a market.
Food Security Strategy
For governments and public institutions: an integrated food security and agricultural transformation programme — policy instruments, institutional roles, financing architecture and an implementation sequence with accountability attached to each stage.
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Mining
Unlocking Africa's Mineral Wealth Responsibly
Mining Investment Readiness Review
The Ligomarc Advocates Bankability Method, mining application. Tenure, licensing, ESG, community arrangements and fiscal terms assessed and remedied before investors reach the data room — with material defects identified and addressed before they emerge in investor due diligence.
Critical Minerals & Beneficiation Strategy
For governments and investors: a strategy for critical mineral development, supply chain security and downstream value addition — what can realistically be processed on the continent, under what fiscal and infrastructure conditions, with what partners, in what order.
Mine Recovery Programme
For distressed or stalled mining projects: legal, commercial and financial restructuring that preserves the resource, the licence and the workforce where the project can be saved, and secures an orderly, defensible position where it cannot.
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Manufacturing & Industry
Transforming Resources into Prosperity
Industrial Investment Readiness Review
The Ligomarc Advocates Bankability Method, industrial application. Land, permits, utilities, incentives and offtake arrangements resolved before capital is asked to commit — with the fiscal incentive position confirmed in writing rather than assumed from the statute.
Factory Development Programme
End-to-end delivery of a manufacturing facility: planning, financing, construction contracting, commissioning and the operating permits that let it run — under one coordinated team from site acquisition to first production run.
Industrial Transformation Strategy
For governments and enterprise groups: the policy, incentives, zones, supply chains and legal architecture that make industrialisation investable — designed against what investors actually finance, not against what policy documents assume they will.
Protecting & Transforming Value
Preserving enterprise value under stress, resolving what is contested, and protecting what has been created.
Protecting & Transforming Value
5 platforms · 15 solutions
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Insolvency & Business Restructuring
Preserving Value. Restoring Confidence. Renewing Enterprise.
Enterprise Recovery Programme
Stabilisation and implementation for a distressed business: immediate control measures, a creditor strategy, a restructuring plan and the governance to execute it — run by practitioners who have held the operator's seat, not only advised from beside it.
Independent Business Review
An objective evaluation of financial position, operational performance, governance and strategic options, written for the board, the lender or the investor who must now make a decision — with a recommendation, and the reasoning that supports it on the record.
State-Owned Enterprise Transformation
Restructuring, commercialising and strengthening a public enterprise: governance reform, financial restructuring, operational improvement and the constitutional and administrative discipline that public ownership demands at every step.
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Strategic Interventions & Special Situations
Leading Through Complexity. Delivering with Confidence.
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.
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Technology & Intellectual Property
Powering Africa's Digital Future
AI Governance Framework
A board-adopted framework covering AI strategy, accountability, risk, data, ethics, procurement, assurance and regulatory compliance, together with the board papers, policies and decision rights an organisation needs to deploy AI it can defend to a regulator.
Data Protection Compliance & Registration Programme
Full compliance with the Data Protection and Privacy Act 2019 and the national registration regime: lawful basis, data mapping, processor contracting, cross-border transfer, breach response and data subject rights — with registration obtained and maintained, not merely advised on.
Intellectual Property Strategy
Identifying, protecting, enforcing and commercialising intellectual assets — including the conversion of research, creative output and institutional knowledge into investable form, so that what an African institution knows becomes something it can license, finance or sell.
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Disputes & Employment
Resolving Complexity. Protecting Value. Preserving Relationships.
Constitutional & Administrative Risk Review
The firm's signature public-law discipline. A decision, an instrument, an appointment or a transaction structure tested against constitutional and administrative-law standards — vires, process, proportionality, natural justice and the record — before a court tests it. For public institutions, regulators, and the enterprises that deal with them.
Strategic Dispute Resolution Programme
Integrated support from first assessment through negotiation, mediation, arbitration, litigation and enforcement, aligned to the commercial objective rather than the procedural one — including board, shareholder and family enterprise governance disputes, and the regulatory investigations and procurement challenges that arrive in the same file.
Workforce Restructuring & Redundancy Programme
Legally compliant, commercially executable workforce change: restructuring, redundancy, transfer of undertakings, union and works council engagement, and the labour standards financiers apply — including IFC Performance Standard 2 — with the board-level employment governance that stops the next dispute forming.
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Tax, Transfer Pricing & Business Succession
Structuring Value. Preserving Wealth. Securing Continuity.
Enterprise Tax Governance Review
An assessment of the tax governance framework, compliance posture and strategic tax risks an organisation carries — delivered as a board-ready risk register with recommended controls, ownership and an escalation route, so that tax stops being discovered at audit.
Transfer Pricing Readiness Programme
Policies, documentation, intercompany agreements and governance brought into alignment with domestic legislation and international standards — with the local file, master file and defence position prepared before the authority asks, not after.
Family Enterprise Continuity Programme
Family governance, ownership structuring, tax planning and succession combined into one roadmap: who owns, who governs, who leads, who is bought out, and on what terms — so that ownership transitions without the enterprise, the tax position or the family fracturing.
Enabling Future Value
Connecting markets, shaping the rules and building the resilience on which the next decade depends.
Enabling Future Value
3 platforms · 9 solutions
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Logistics & Trade
Connecting Markets. Enabling Commerce.
AfCFTA Readiness Programme
What an enterprise or a government must have in place to trade under the AfCFTA and capture its preferences: rules of origin, tariff schedules, standards and conformity, market entry structuring and the regulatory approvals in each destination market — assessed, sequenced and executed.
Trade Corridor Development Advisory
For governments, development partners and investors: the planning, governance, financing and implementation architecture of a regional transport or trade corridor — including the cross-border instruments, EAC and COMESA obligations and institutional arrangements that make a corridor operate as one system rather than several.
Customs & Border Compliance Programme
Customs compliance strengthened, border delays reduced and regulatory risk managed — classification, valuation, origin, transit and bonded regimes reviewed, with the procedures and training to keep the position stable.
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Regulatory Strategy
Shaping the Rules. Strengthening the Institutions.
Regulator Mandate & Powers Review
A full audit of what an institution may lawfully do and where it is exposed: mandate, powers, procedures and the gaps a challenger would find first, together with the enforcement and rulemaking discipline that keeps decisions and instruments standing — consultation, impact assessment, drafting, proportionality and record.
Treaty Domestication Gap Analysis
National law measured against EAC, COMESA, AfCFTA and AU Agenda 2063 commitments, delivered as a gap register and a prioritised drafting programme so that continental promises acquire the force of law at home, instrument by instrument.
Regulatory Institution Strengthening Programme
A diagnostic, a reform roadmap and a capability transfer programme that leave the regulator stronger in mandate, method and people, including tariff and economic regulation methodology, and the tax policy and revenue administration reform that state institutions increasingly carry long after we have left the building.
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ESG & Sustainability
Building Resilient Institutions. Creating Sustainable Value.
E&S Safeguards Compliance Programme
Compliance with the standards financiers actually apply, including the IFC Performance Standards, the AfDB Integrated Safeguards System and comparable frameworks, translated into environmental and social action plans, disbursement conditions and covenant reporting that survive supervision.
Gender-Lens Investment & 2X Alignment Review
An enterprise, fund or portfolio assessed against gender-lens investment criteria across ownership, leadership, employment, supply chain and product, with the governance, data and reporting built to evidence the position to investors. We bring practical experience of the same evidence standards that investors apply to advisers and portfolio companies.
Climate Strategy, Transition & Carbon Market Readiness Programme
Climate risks and opportunities identified, a practical transition and resilience strategy built, and carbon project eligibility, governance, contracting and revenue structures assessed for credible participation in carbon markets — including climate-smart production and financing structures that keep farms and agribusinesses productive, insurable and bankable.
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