Our Africa Practice
As a business orientated law firm, Radix offers a unique combination of international legal practice standards, a network of Africa-specific relationships and experience of business operations in various countries in sub-Saharan Africa. We understand the local markets, the legal and regulatory framework and the business culture. Simply put, Radix knows how Africa works.
Our Africa experience extends to all sectors including capital markets, mining, energy, and infrastructure and our team has decades of experience handling multi-billion cross border trade and investment transactions on the continent. The team routinely assists clients with legal advisory and transactional support in a broad spectrum of finance, risk mitigation and prudential management arrangements right at the heart of emerging and frontier markets. Our practice is a combination of practical advice that allows clients formulate sound trading and investment strategies, and legal support in structuring, negotiating and documenting transactions.
Our African heritage, passion for the continent and expert legal experience, gives us an added advantage as we are able to provide world class legal solutions that are flexible, tailored and efficient for our clients.
Select Africa Experience
- Advising a Congolese agricultural start-up on the development of a mechanised cotton farming business in the Congo
- Advising an international company on strategies for attracting potential international investors to a Nigerian state
- Advising an African government body on the development of a waste management strategy and attracting potential investors
- Conducting a six months study of the Nigeria capital markets and delivering a report with recommendations for deepening the market (The Law Society and UK Trade and Investments)
- Advising a Nigerian indigenous oil and gas company on ISDA hedging arrangements
- Providing capacity building/training programmes on a wide range of finance and documentation subjects to government, corporate, finance and other institutions including African Development Bank, Africa Finance Corporation, KBC Bank NV, the Federal Government of Ethiopia
- Advising a major Luxemburg bank on the structuring of a £20million loan and risk participation facility to fund loans to agri-businesses in Africa