Practice Areas
Corporate & CommercialCorporate & Commercial
The African Continent today offers opportunities for inbound investment, business expansion and other commercial activities at a time more mature world markets are under strain.
The Firm’s lawyers have worked with governments, state-owned corporations and international corporations in all stages of transactions, ranging from origination, document negotiation to closing.
We advise on market entry strategies, mergers and acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures & partnerships, undertaking due diligence investigations as well as intellectual property registration, protection and licensing.
Representative transactions
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- Advising on and negotiating Power Purchase Agreements on behalf of Independent Power Producers;
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- Advising a project developer and preparing various property conveyancing and securities documents;
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- Advising on and undertaking pre-acquisition due diligence exercises and preparing transaction documentation;
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- Advising clients in various intellectual property matters including trade mark, copyright, design registration and commercialisation of intellectual property;
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- Drafting and negotiating intellectual property licence agreements;
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- Advising and representing clients in a broad range of commercial disputes and managing issues through every stage of the litigation life cycle, before courts and regulatory tribunals;
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- Advising a state owned enterprise on the restructuring and amalgamation of seven public entities into a single corporate entity and compliance with the Public Finance Management Act in South Africa;
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- Advising a global manufacturer of transmission and distribution power line components in the development of a regional market entry strategy and channel partner identification in Kenya;
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- Advising an energy utility on the disposal of its wholly owned subsidiary in South Africa;
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- Advising an international client in the floriculture sector on market entry, project design, land acquisition and establishment of a 100-acre flower farm in Kenya;
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- Undertaking a due diligence investigation of an energy utility’s transactions within the African continent; and
- Advising the government on the acquisition of a majority stake in an aluminium manufacturing company in Ghana.