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Many of the world’s fastest-growing economies are African. As these economies mature, corporations, sovereigns, and other organizations conducting business on the continent require sophisticated counsel to ensure compliance, structure deals appropriately and defend their interests in disputes. Hughes Hubbard’s extensive experience in Africa makes the firm an ideal partner during this period of rapid growth. We are fluent in the languages and traditions of Africa’s legal and business communities. Increasingly, stakeholders select our attorneys to provide counsel to the projects, deals and ventures reshaping the continent.
Broad experience across contentious and non-contentious matters
The scope of our work in Africa is broad – our team has experience in matters concerning corporate transactions, financing, arbitration, compliance, energy projects and development banks. Our work includes sovereign financing for African governments on their challenging financial transactions, assisting both private entities and states in arbitrations and award enforcement matters involving African nations, and advising on major infrastructure and energy project investments in Africa.
Our attorneys also have extensive experience in conducting global compliance risk assessments, internal investigations, business partner reviews and anti-corruption due diligence for their clients’ operations in Africa.
Experience across the continent in francophone and anglophone Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as North Africa
Hughes Hubbard has acquired vast experience in both francophone and anglophone Africa matters. We have served clients in such jurisdictions as Algeria, Kenya, Senegal, Togo, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Ghana, Rwanda, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Burkina Fasso, Tunisia, and Morocco, among others.
The firm has significant experience in French mining law as well as in the energy, natural resources and infrastructure sectors across most francophone African countries. Our skilled attorneys have experience, intervening both in the development of project and public-private partnerships, in project finance and contractual agreements related to project financing, trade finance, export finance, sovereign and structured finance, as well as experience in the resolution of disputes arising therefrom.
For more information about our Africa practice please contact:
Sena Agbayissah
Chair
Sébastien Bonnard
Remy Gerbay
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Anti-Corruption and Internal Investigations
Multilateral Development Bank Investigations and Sanctions
Anti-Corruption and Internal Investigations
Our attorneys have served as arbitrators in disputes across Africa, including the following matters:
Other arbitration-related engagements:
Multilateral Development Bank Investigations and Sanctions
Sena Agbayissah
Chair
Sébastien Bonnard
Remy Gerbay
Nicolas Tollet
Agnès Braka-Calas
Rhidian David
Sabrina Touchard
Enguerrand de la Morsanglière
Eleni Jacovides
Shayda Vance