Banking & Finance

About

Provided by Baker McKenzie

In addition to over 100 lawyers based in our local African offices (Cairo, Casablanca and Johannesburg), our clients are supported by Africa specialists from across our global network of 77 offices, and our network of African Relationship Firms.

Our global platform is unmatched, giving our team unrivalled access to industry experts across the globe. Given the ever-increasing cross border nature of Banking & Finance deals, we believe our firm is better equipped than many of our competitors to effectively provide legal solutions for clients.

The team is well renowned for its strong presence in bank-to-bank syndicated lending in Africa. We are also legal counsel of choice in multiple Export Finance and Structured Trade Finance transactions for key financial institutions in Africa. We have led the way on many key financings in both the private sector and to state owned entities in key jurisdictions.

We have extensive experience in the financial sector advising national development financial institutions, multi-lateral development banks and export credit agencies on a wide range of transactions including acquisition finance, restructuring and insolvency, derivatives, project finance, financial services regulation, securitisation and capital markets.

The focus of our practice group is trade finance, export finance, project finance, bank-to-bank lending, acquisition finance and specialist work for impact investors such as development finance institutions and export credit agencies.