Who we serve

Banks, Financiers and Investors

Institutions deploying capital for development and commercial projects.

Your operating context

A financier's question is never only whether a transaction can be documented. It is whether the security is perfected, whether the remedies work in practice, whether the borrower's delivery risk is actually controlled by the documents, and whether — if it all goes wrong — recovery is achievable in this jurisdiction and any others involved. We build for the enforcement scenario from the first draft, because enforceability cannot be retrofitted.

We make capital deployable with bankability, enforceability and recovery readiness, hardwiring delivery risk controls into documentation.

The problems that bring you to us

“The lender needs enforceable security across multiple registries and jurisdictions.”
“A facility has gone into default and enforcement must begin.”
“A development finance mandate requires environmental, social and integrity compliance we must evidence.”
“A borrower is restructuring and our recovery position needs protecting.”
“We are designing a new guarantee or on-lending scheme and it must be legally durable.”

The capabilities we bring

01
Finance
Helping capital move safely, efficiently and sustainably across Africa.
04
Insolvency & Business Restructuring
Protecting value when balance sheets tighten and confidence collapses.
08
Disputes
Business continuity through dispute resolution, not simply litigation.
10
ESG & Sustainability
Where capital, compliance and conscience meet.
09
Tax, Transfer Pricing & Business Succession
Protecting long-term value, from the balance sheet to the next generation.

Representative experience

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
Central bank
Reported
Tax dispute protecting approximately UGX 60 billion
A revenue authority assessment against the central bank created material fiscal exposure and raised questions with implications well beyond the assessment itself.
- Tax
- Disputes
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
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