Africa In Focus - First Edition

Africa in Focus explores a range of legal and regulatory developments shaping investment trends across Africa. In this first edition, we focus on a collection of topics connected by the themes of natural resources, geopolitics, regulatory reform and the rapid growth of digital markets.

Drawing on our team's experience across approximately 1,000 ongoing matters in Africa, we distil key insights gained from that breadth of engagement in an accessible format.

We open with competition and antitrust, drawing practical lessons from the first year of the ECOWAS Regional Competition Authority's merger control regime for dealmakers active in West Africa. Staying on the regulatory theme, we explore how competition authorities across several African jurisdictions are shaping digital markets by extending existing frameworks to large technology platforms, a development with immediate implications for the sector's growth trajectory on the continent.