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Ligomarc Advocates

Who we serve

Infrastructure and Project Sponsors

Contractors, operators, sponsors and investors building and running critical infrastructure.

IncludingSponsors, developers, EPC contractors, utilities, concessionaires and PPP participants.

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 is the backbone of every modern economy. Roads, railways, airports, ports, water systems, telecommunications networks, industrial parks, hospitals and public facilities enable trade, attract investment, improve productivity and enhance quality of life.The Infrastructure Advisory Platform exists to help clients successfully deliver these assets from concept through financing, procurement, construction, operation and long-term stewardship.We advise throughout the infrastructure lifecycle, combining legal excellence with commercial insight, financial structuring and practical implementation support.

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    Energy

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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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    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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    ESG & Sustainability

    The Strategic Advisory Platforms are the market-facing architecture of Ligomarc.Their effectiveness depends not only on technical excellence, but also on disciplined governance, clear accountability, coordinated leadership and consistent execution.The purpose of this Chapter is to establish the governance framework through which the Strategic Advisory Platforms are led, coordinated and continuously improved.

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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.

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    Mining

    Africa possesses some of the world's richest deposits of gold, copper, cobalt, lithium, graphite, rare earth elements, iron ore, uranium, bauxite, manganese, phosphates and industrial minerals. These resources present an unprecedented opportunity to accelerate economic transformation, industrialisation and regional integration.However, mineral wealth alone does not guarantee prosperity. Sustainable value depends on sound governance, responsible investment, access to capital, effective regulation, environmental stewardship, community participation and downstream value addition.The Mining Advisory Platform exists to help governments, investors, mining companies and financiers unlock the full value of Africa's mineral resources through integrated strategic advisory across the entire mining lifecycle.

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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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