Who we serve
Infrastructure and Project Sponsors
Contractors, operators, sponsors and investors building and running critical infrastructure.
Your operating context
Infrastructure is where African projects absorb the highest execution risk — procurement complexity, approvals and legitimacy demands, land and access realities, offtaker and payment risk, supply chain volatility, and claims that harden into disputes and stall delivery. Projects succeed when bankability is engineered early, risk sits with the party best able to manage it, and contracts anticipate delivery as it actually happens.
We protect schedule, margin and performance with bankable delivery contracts and strengthen payment and remedies pathways.
The problems that bring you to us
- “We need to reach financial close and the risk allocation is not yet bankable.”
- “Payment is slipping and the remedies in our contract are not working.”
- “A change in law or scope has triggered a claim we need to run or defend.”
- “Interface risk — permits, land, grid connection — is on the critical path.”
- “Local content obligations apply across more than one jurisdiction.”
The capabilities we bring
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Infrastructure
Infrastructure as an ecosystem, not a single contract.
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Energy
Counsel for Africa's energy transition, from the grid to the frontier.
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Finance
Helping capital move safely, efficiently and sustainably across Africa.
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Disputes
Business continuity through dispute resolution, not simply litigation.
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ESG & Sustainability
Where capital, compliance and conscience meet.
Representative experience
National energy regulator
Reported
Licence-amendment dispute in the electricity sector
A contested amendment to a major distribution concession put the regulator's authority, and the commercial terms of the country's largest electricity licence, before the courts.
- Disputes
- Energy
- Regulation
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
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
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
Who you would work with
Talk to us about infrastructure.
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