Who we serve

Enterprises and Family-Owned Businesses

African and international businesses building, expanding or transforming across the continent.

IncludingFamily businesses to multinationals, across their growth journeys.

Your operating context

Enterprise growth in African markets is rarely limited by ambition. It is limited by whether the business can raise capital on terms it can live with, hold its contracts together through change, and demonstrate the governance that investors, lenders and regulators now expect as a precondition rather than a bonus. For family-owned businesses, a further question sits underneath all of it: whether the enterprise can outlive its founder.

We structure capital that can move, build contracts that protect delivery, and turn technology and intellectual property into protectable, investable value.

The problems that bring you to us

“We are raising capital and the investor's diligence has surfaced problems we did not know we had.”
“The founder has no succession structure and the next generation is not aligned.”
“Our brand, software or know-how is commercially central and legally undocumented.”
“A distributorship, joint venture or shareholder relationship has broken down.”
“We are entering a new African market and do not know what will be enforceable there.”

The capabilities we bring

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Finance
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.
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Tax, Transfer Pricing & Business Succession
Tax is one of the most significant determinants of enterprise value, investment performance and long-term wealth preservation. Sound tax planning supports capital formation, enhances competitiveness and provides certainty for business growth. Poor tax governance, by contrast, creates unnecessary cost, regulatory exposure, disputes and reputational risk.Equally, the continuity of an enterprise depends not only on financial performance, but also on the orderly transition of ownership, leadership and stewardship across generations.The Tax, Transfer Pricing & Business Succession Advisory Platform exists to help clients make informed decisions that optimise value, strengthen governance and preserve enterprises for the future.
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Technology & Intellectual Property
Technology is transforming every sector of the African economy.Artificial intelligence, data, telecommunications, cloud computing, cybersecurity, digital finance, digital public infrastructure and advanced manufacturing are changing how institutions govern, how enterprises compete and how citizens access services.At the same time, intellectual property has become a central source of enterprise value. Brands, software, algorithms, data, research, creative works, designs and proprietary knowledge increasingly determine market position and competitive advantage.
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Disputes & Employment
Disputes are an inevitable feature of commerce, investment and institutional life. They arise when commercial expectations diverge, contractual obligations are contested, regulatory decisions are challenged, or competing interests must be reconciled.While disputes may be unavoidable, prolonged conflict, unmanaged litigation and adversarial positions often destroy value, consume management attention, damage relationships and delay strategic objectives.The purpose of the Disputes & Employment Platform is not merely to conduct litigation. It is to help clients anticipate disputes, manage conflict strategically, preserve commercial relationships where possible and achieve outcomes that protect long-term enterprise value and institutional integrity.
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Manufacturing & Industry
Africa's long-term prosperity will not be determined solely by what it extracts, but by what it manufactures.Manufacturing transforms natural resources into higher-value products, creates skilled employment, strengthens domestic supply chains, drives exports, stimulates innovation and expands national tax bases. It is the bridge between resource wealth and broad-based economic development.The Manufacturing & Industry Advisory Platform supports governments, investors and enterprises in establishing, expanding and modernising industrial operations that are commercially competitive, environmentally responsible and globally connected.
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Agriculture & Food Security
Agriculture remains the largest employer across Africa and the foundation of food security, rural livelihoods and agro-industrial development. Yet the sector continues to face persistent challenges including low productivity, fragmented value chains, limited access to finance, climate vulnerability, post-harvest losses and barriers to regional trade.The Agriculture & Food Security Advisory Platform supports the transformation of agriculture from subsistence to commercially viable, investment-ready and value-driven enterprises.We advise clients across the agricultural value chain, helping them structure investments, strengthen governance, improve market access, manage regulatory obligations and build resilient food systems capable of supporting Africa's long-term economic development.
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Logistics & Trade
Trade is the lifeblood of economic growth.Efficient logistics systems and well-functioning trade corridors enable goods, services, capital and investment to move across borders, connect producers to markets, reduce the cost of doing business and strengthen regional competitiveness.The Logistics & Trade Advisory Platform exists to help clients design, finance, govern and optimise trade and logistics ecosystems that support sustainable economic development and regional integration.

Representative 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
Multi-country family-owned manufacturing group
Reported
Family-enterprise continuity architecture for a multi-country manufacturing group
A family-owned manufacturing group operating across several African markets needed to combine ownership, governance, tax and succession into a single continuity plan before the next generational transition.
- Tax
- Succession
- Manufacturing
Global oilfield services contractor
Reported
Tax controversy concerning approximately UGX 22 billion
A multinational contractor operating in the oil and gas sector faced a significant assessment turning on cross-border structuring and the treatment of services delivered into the jurisdiction.
- Tax
- Oil & Gas