Asante Twagira

Lawyer information

Practice Areas

Asante is engaged in the following practice Areas:-

Banking & Finance

Mergers & Acquisitions

Project Finance

Corporate commercial work

Career

Asante is the Founding Partner of Corban with a strong reputation in banking and finance, M&A (where he has engaged in every feature of the process from structuring advice to due diligence and on to regulatory submissions and drafting transaction documents), corporate commercial, project finance, construction and infrastructure, taxation, contract as well as competition and anti-trust matters.

He has been in legal practice for 17 years and his experience includes project finance, financial services regulation, commercial contracts, corporate advice and governance, corporate structuring involving banks and other regulated entities, corporate finance, exchange control and regulatory advice.

Asante has renowned capabilities in cross-border transaction advisory deals that pertain to multiple sectors including banking, infrastructure, energy, telecommunications and various corporate commercial matters. He has been ranked as a leading/recommended lawyer in Chambers & Partners publications since 2017.

Asante is fluent in English, Swahili, Kinyarwanda, Luganda and has a good command of French.

Professional Memberships

Asante is a member of the Rwanda Bar Association and the East Africa Law Society.