Our cross-border team delivers specialist legal and business expertise in the Infrastructure sector across Africa and the UAE, focusing on innovative project structuring, public-private partnerships (PPPs), bankable financing models, and risk allocation to enable the efficient delivery of transformative projects.
We advise governments, sponsors, financiers, and developers on landmark transport, logistics, social, and utility infrastructure initiatives, including concessions, EPC contracts, PPP frameworks, and high-value disputes, providing coordinated pan-African solutions that balance public policy goals with commercial viability and sustainability.
Our Infrastructure Expertise
Investment in infrastructure supports economic growth, improves the quality of life, and enhances competitiveness, with sectors such as transport (roads, rail, ports, airports), water and sanitation, waste management, and digital connectivity attracting growing private capital through PPPs and innovative financing.
Some of the key drivers of infrastructure in Africa include AfCFTA (The African Continental Free Trade Area)-enabled regional projects, climate-resilient designs, and the push for sustainable models. Yet, challenges remain: funding gaps, regulatory fragmentation, off-taker and payment risks, political and currency exposures, procurement complexities, and community/ESG expectations.
We offer integrated legal and commercial advice across Africa and the UAE to a broad range of clients, including:
Our deep on-the-ground presence in major markets enables clients to navigate complex tender processes, secure concessions, structure resilient agreements, and resolve issues decisively to deliver projects successfully.
Our seamless services cover the full infrastructure project lifecycle, providing tailored support for your developments in Africa and the UAE:
Representative transactions include advising:
A consortium of East African national and international telecoms service providers and the Government of Kenya, in connection with the construction, operation and maintenance of an under-sea fiber optic cable providing telecommunication services between Mombasa, Kenya and Fujairah, UAE.
in connection with a public private partnership (PPP) arrangement for the USD 100 million upgrading and expansion of Mauritius’ national highway road network
A Japanese law firm, who have been instructed by Crown Agents, an international development company, to provide legal advisory services in respect of the development, implementation and installation of a medical and hazardous waste processing plant in Nairobi with the project being financed through a government-to-government grant made available by the Government of Japan to the Government of Kenya.
In connection with debt financing for the construction of a new international airport at Bugesera in Rwanda.
In connection with the proposed concession of the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
Which focuses on the energy and environment industries, in connection with a bid relating to the construction and operation of two treatment facilities of seawater by reverse osmosis.
In connection with the Construction of the Nairobi – Mombasa Expressway.
In connection with a public private partnership (PPP) arrangement for the USD 100 million upgrading and expansion of Mauritius’ national highway road network.
In connection with their construction of a 1000-kilometre, high voltage power transmission line linking Kenya and Ethiopia.
In connection with the restructuring of its 25-year concessions from the governments of Kenya and Uganda to operate the nearly 1,000-kilometre rail track linking the Indian Ocean to the interior of East Africa.
in connection with the USD 375 million financing for the construction of a gas-fed fertilizer plant
In connection with the Government of Uganda’s development of a PPP governed, 77km dual carriage alternative express way between Kampala and Jinja.
In connection with the development, construction, operation and maintenance of Lot 15 of the Roads Annuity Programme.