Our legal work in Africa
Africa is one of the world's fasting growing emerging
markets. It presents great opportunity and great risk.
Our law firm has over 30 years’ experience on thecontinent and our lawyers work together as part ofyour team, to help you successfully navigate thecontinent’s unique business environments.
We offer the full spectrum of legal services in Africa
and regularly advise on large infrastructure and energy
projects, multi-party PPP and project financing,complex Islamic financing, FINTEC, and private equity
transactions specifically for African investors. Clients
appreciate our global team of lawyers’ innovative andaward-winning approach.
We are committed to building business in Africa andhave more than 30 years of experience on thecontinent. We advise inbound, outbound, and panAfrican clients on their strategic goals. We understandthe complexities of Islamic finance, DCM, and FINTEC.
And have led private equity offerings specifically for
African investors.
Our unified global team has the know-how and cultural
understanding necessary to support English, French,and Portuguese-speaking Africa from our global offices
in Latin America, the U.S., Europe, Asia, the Middle East,and Africa.
We work closely with law firms in 50 African countries.
And we are committed to making a positive impact on
local communities by investing in social enterprise andKey contacts
Arun Velusami,
LondonOlivier Fille-Lambie,
Paris

Chris Green,
Johannesburg

Alison Diarra,
LondonTrending Topics
Africa Insights
Africa Future Leaders
Hogan Lovells Johannesburg officeoverview
Our relationship with firms across
AfricaAreas of focus
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Related practices

Yes, we are brilliant at the law, but also passionate
about the continent. Choose Hogan Lovells as yourlegal partner for Africa.

Aviation
Education
Employment
International Trade and Investment
Privacy and Cybersecurity
Private Equity
Sovereigns

Representative experience
Advising China Baowu Steel Group on its investment in
the Simandou mining and infrastructure (rail and port)
project in the Republic of Guinea, reportedly the largest
project of its kind in Africa at the time.
Advising a multi-asset energy and mining company inrelation to power supply arrangements in Mozambique.

Related sectors

Advising SMRT Project and Energy Solutions limited on
the development construction and financing of a solar
project in Sierra Leone, including the drafting of related
documents.

Energy and Natural Resources
Insurance
Life Sciences and Health Care
Technology and Telecoms

Advising Frontier Mining (subsidiary of EurasianResources Group) on its power supply arrangements inZambia and the DRC.
Assisting a public research university to operate online
academic programs into East Africa.
Assisting the Africa Centre, London's international
centre for Pan-African culture, with the legal work forthe transformation of their Southwark headquarters.
Advising a speciality chemicals company with export
controls and sanctions issues in Sudan.
A consortium of international banks as arrangers on
the inaugural sukuk offering by the State of Senegal,
the first of its kind in West Africa.
Acted as lead counsel in Sikhakhane Panelinvestigation, resulting from an employee complaint at
a covert unit within South African Revenue Services.
Advise on the OHADA law's constitutional framework,
which governs 17 French-speaking African countries.

Advise the States of Niger and Benin on award winning
US$4.3bn West African rail loop project across Niger,Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, and Burkina Faso.
Advised IFC and Société Générale as co-arrangers on
the US$300m trade financing provided to fund oil
imports in Cote d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, and Mali.
Advised IFC on its Energy Access Fund (REAF).
Microfinance fund provides debt finance to modern
energy products and services to off-grid users inemerging markets.
Advised PPC Limited on their acquisition of various
mining and quarry rights from a local entity in theDemocratic Republic of the Congo.
Advises Afrexim on a reserve base lending facility tosupport Eroton's US$1.2bn acquisition of OML 18, fromseveral oil majors in Nigeria.
Advises BHPBilliton on regulatory, health and safety,and compliance issues resulting from rail infrastructure
project linked to a mine in South Africa.
Advises Propertuity Developments on the awardwinning Maboneng District project, a mixed-use
development within a regeneration zone in
Johannesburg.
Leading telecom providers such as Vodafone on all
acquisition, merger, joint venture, disposal, and salematters relating to cross-border transactions.
PEAS on its PPP with governments of Uganda, Rwanda,and Zambia to build, operate, and extend the capacityof secondary education into remote areas.

Awards and rankings
Deal of the Year (Bayer AG acquires Monsanto Co),The Deal Awards Europe, 2018
Associate of the Year (Darryl Jago), African LegalAwards, 2018
Hogan Lovells named Who's Who Legal Firm of theYear 2018 - Hogan Lovells received the award at adinner in London on the evening of 8 May. In making
its announcement, Who’s Who Legal said: “The firmboasts a prominent presence in the internationalmarketplace with offices across the Americas, EMEA
and Asia-Pacific, and showcases the great depth ofexpertise on offer with 258 practitioners listed in ourguides this year.”, Who's Who Legal, 2018
Winner of Pro Bono initiative of the year for the"Empowering Girls and Women initiative" whichseeks to address gender-based violence (GBV),including by assisting victims of trafficking withapplications for compensation through the Criminal
Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA), The LawyerAwards, 2017
Employment Law Team of the Year, African LegalAwards, 2017
CSR Initiative of the Year, African Legal Awards, 2016

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