Our team’s experience includes the following:
- Advised on the arranging, financing and launch of the RASCOM telecom satellite project
- Advised on the financing and launch of the New Dawn telecom satellite project
- Advised on telecom tower acquisition projects in Uganda and Nigeria
- Advised an international telecom developer in an asset acquisition-finance project in Uganda
- Advised on the financing of the roll out of a 4G LTE network in Uganda
- Advised on a rail rolling-stock acquisition finance project in Uganda
- Advised on the financing and closing of the Rift Valley Railways concession project
- Advised on road construction and upgrade projects in several African countries
- Advised on the financing of the manufacture, acquisition and lease of a new fleet of Boeing 777 aircraft by the Ethiopian Airlines
Our team’s experience includes the following:
- Advised on the development and financing of several power projects in Uganda and elsewhere
- Advised on the financing and construction of power transmission projects in several African countries
- Advised on the financing of a manganese mining and beneficiation project in South Africa
- Advised on the financing of the Lumwana copper mining project in Zambia
- Advised a private equity fund based in China in relation to the proposed investment and development of a mining project in Uganda
- Advised and attended to negotiation of documents with the Government of Uganda on behalf of a preferred bidder for the Uganda national oil refinery project
- Advised and attended to negotiation of documents on behalf of a preferred bidder for the proposed Kenya-Uganda refined petroleum products pipeline
Our team’s experience includes the following:
- Advised the East African Development Bank in project finance and lease-finance transactions
- Advised sponsors, DFIs and other financiers in the financing of various telecom, power, transport and hospitality sector projects in Uganda.
- Advised a UAE based financial institution in a trade finance and securitisation transaction in Uganda
- Advised a global card services company on the introduction of payment card and merchant acquirer services in Uganda
- Advised various companies and financial institutions on local law aspects of derivatives, securities and on-line trading and payment services.
- Advised an international client on the viability of the legal and regulatory framework in Uganda for issuance of infrastructure bonds.
- Advised the African Development Bank on several sovereign guaranteed loans to governments and public sector entities
- Advised the African Development Bank on line of credit transactions to various financial institutions and in the implementation of various financial products
Our team’s M&A experience includes the following:
- Advised a global pharmaceutical company on its commercial activities in Uganda and on its acquisition of a significant shareholding in a Ugandan pharmaceutical company
- Advised on several banking sector equity investments and acquisitions including: the acquisition of a bank in Uganda by a consortium led by a UK-based private equity fund; and the acquisition of a local commercial bank by a leading Nigerian bank
- Advised a global telecom company on its acquisition of the operations of a Ugandan telecom operator
- Advised a Netherlands based private equity fund in its investment in a private hospital in Uganda
- Advised a South African based private equity fund in its investment in an insurance company in Uganda
- Acted on several proposed investments and acquisitions in the energy, agri-business and ICT sectors in Uganda
- Advised on the establishment/formation of commercial banks and private equity funds