Infrastructure, Transport & PPPs

Our Infrastructure, Transport & PPP Practice provides advisory on large scale infrastructure project development in Africa. The Practice has extensive experience on a range of complex transactions relating to social and hard infrastructure developments in the public and private realms. Our sector experience spans transport (roads, ports, railways, airports), health, housing, trade, logistics, and telecommunication sectors. We are very good at responding to client needs in developing and financing large infrastructure Projects. This is made possible by our good understanding and experience of the East, Central and Southern African infrastructure market borne out of many years of consistently focusing on these sectors. We are innovative, responsive and quite familiar with the terrain having worked with Governments, government agencies, regulators, Commercial Banks, Development Finance Institutions (DFIs), large commercial banks and Project developers and contractors. Our infrastructure and Transport expertise includes:

• Transport and Logistics (roads, ports, airports, & railways)
• Industrial Parks and Special Economic Zones Development
• Social Infrastructure – Housing, Hospitals, Schools and Sporting Facilities
• Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) and PFI schemes
• Telecommunication Infrastructure

In these areas we offer the full range of legal advisory services including:

• Legal due diligence and feasibility studies,
• Licensing and approvals
• Public-Private Partnerships transaction advisory
• Project SPV/Joint Venture structuring and registration
• Project finance documentation and negotiation,
• Legal and regulatory compliance,
• Project Institutional and Governance Arrangements,
• Drafting and Negotiating Project Agreements,
• Project Approvals and Licensing
• Contract Management.