Our Banking & Finance practice delivers comprehensive legal advice on the full spectrum of financial transactions, from sophisticated lending and debt capital markets to trade and project finance. We navigate Africa’s complex and rapidly growing financial sector on behalf of leading financial institutions and corporations. Through solid partnerships, we leverage extensive experience and global connectivity to execute intricate cross-border mandates with efficiency and innovation, delivering exceptional results for our clients.
Africa’s financial landscape is a powerful engine of national and continental growth, characterized by rapid digital transformation, evolving regulations, and deepening capital market integration. Success in this dynamic environment requires counsel that is both technically impeccable and strategically insightful.
Our Banking & Finance Team embodies the dynamic and innovative spirit of our firm, consistently seeking pragmatic solutions to serve our clients’ interests. We possess a unique advantage—an in-depth understanding of both the practice and business of law. This positions us to deliver creative and effective solutions to our clients.
Our expertise covers a broad spectrum of financial services, including bank lending (from bilateral to syndicated lending and other bank and credit products as well as deal structuring for secured transactions). Our team are also highly versed in acquisition finance, structured and trade finance, and project finance. We are committed to reflecting the core values of our firm, ensuring that our clients receive timely, efficient, and commercially sound advice.
With a rich history of representing diverse parties, including lenders, borrowers, arrangers, sponsors, governments, issuers, and trustees, we have a profound appreciation for the intricacies inherent in each role. Our team leverages this wealth of experience to navigate transactions seamlessly.
We operate across international borders, advising clients from jurisdictions such as the West Africa, United Kingdom, Canada, New York, Dubai, China, South Africa, and beyond.
Our team of banking and finance lawyers operates at the epicenter of this activity. We are trusted for our role in shaping the market’s most consequential transactions and resolving its most high-stakes disputes. Our proven track record includes:
- Structuring & Negotiation: Acting as lead counsel for a consortium of international development banks and local lenders on a USD 350 million project financing for a critical port infrastructure expansion.
- Fintech & Regulatory Licensing: Designing the regulatory entry strategy and securing all requisite CBN and SEC approvals for a foreign digital asset exchange launching its Nigerian operations.
- Complex Debt Recovery: Leading the litigation and strategic enforcement action for a systemically important bank, achieving the successful recovery of a N4.1 billion non-performing loan portfolio.
- Defensive Advisory & Dispute Resolution: Successfully defending a merchant bank against a high-profile NGN 500 million claim related to derivative instruments, securing a full dismissal at arbitration.
- Structured Finance Innovation: Advising the issuer on the legal architecture and regulatory compliance for Nigeria’s first publicly offered asset-backed commercial paper program.
Our practice is built on end-to-end partnership and a deep understanding of both the transactional mechanics and the contentious realities of the financial sector. We are adept at guiding clients through the entire lifecycle—from conceptualizing regulatory-compliant structures and negotiating multi-jurisdictional credit agreements to executing pre-insolvency restructurings and leading decisive recovery litigation.
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