Simon Kapampa

Simon is a Partner at ALN Zambia | Musa Dudhia & Co., with over 10 years of experience specialising in Banking and Finance, as well as general corporate and commercial law.

He has expertise in all aspects of finance, including corporate finance, project finance, restructurings, refinancing, bilateral transactions, and syndicated transactions. Simon has advised a diverse range of clients, including multinational corporations, Zambia’s leading public and private companies, investment and retail banks, financial institutions, private equity providers, and international development finance institutions. His work spans numerous complex projects and both local and cross-border commercial and finance transactions.

Simon holds a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) from the University of Zambia and is a member of the Law Association of Zambia.

Law Association of Zambia

2015      Zambia Institute of Advanced Legal Education, Legal Practitioners’ Qualifying Exam

2014      Bachelor of Laws (LLB), University of Zambia

Banking & Finance

• Acting for BNP Paribas, a French multinational universal bank and financial services holding company headquartered in Paris, in its capacity as Security Agent, and a syndicate of international lenders including Goldman Sachs in connection with a syndicated refinance transaction aggregating circa USD 3.1 billion to First Quantum Minerals, a leading Canadian multinational conglomerate with extensive operations in Zambia.
• Acting for BNP Paribas and a syndicate of lenders, including Goldman Sachs, in connection with a senior secured second lien notes offering totaling USD 1.6 billion by First Quantum Minerals Limited, a leading Canadian multinational conglomerate with extensive operations in Zambia.
• Acting for the European Investment Bank in connection with three separate financing arrangements with the Government of Zambia in relation to various projects undertaken by ZESCO Limited, a state-owned power company in Zambia. The transactions involved a EUR 50 million loan to develop a hydro power plant and transmission line in Itezhi Tezhi; a EUR 78 Million loan to reinforce power transmission and distribution infrastructure in Lusaka; and a EUR 22 million loan in respect of the Kafue-Livingstone power transmission line.
• Acting as local counsel to the Development Bank of Southern Africa in connection with a USD 100 million financing to Zesco Limited, a state-owned power company in Zambia, in relation to the Kafue Gorge Lower Hydro Power Plant in Zambia, including negotiating and finalising the finance documents, advising on the appropriate security as well as Zambian law requirements to mitigate risk for the client, issuing customary project finance opinions and assisting with conditions precedent.
• Acting for U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, a development finance institution and agency of the United States federal government,. in connection with a restructure of a USD 25 million facility to Atlas Mara Bank Zambia.
• Acting for European Investment Bank in connection with its EUR 10 million Green African Agri Value Chain finance to First Capital Bank, a Zambian commercial bank, for onward financing of primarily agriculture value chain projects carried out by final beneficiaries, including small and medium-sized enterprises.

Energy & Mining

• Acting for Yellow River, which is part of the Sinohydro Group of Companies, as local counsel to Pinsent Masons, in connection with an Engineering, Procurement, and Construction mining project worth USD 46 million that Yellow River undertook in Zambia.
• Acting for Enel Green Power, an Italian multinational renewable energy corporation headquartered in Rome, in connection with the development of a 50MW solar power plant under the first ever scaling solar project in Zambia.

Real Estate

• Acting for Ancona Properties, Forli, and LM & C Properties in connection with the USD 65 million sale of three shopping malls in Zambia to Real Estate Investments Zambia, the only listed real estate company in Zambia, including assisting with obtaining regulatory recognition of REIZ as the first Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) in Zambia.

Capital Markets

• Advising Standard Chartered Bank Zambia in connection with regulatory compliance with the listing requirements of Lusaka Securities Exchange and seeking waivers of certain provisions.
• Advising Airtel Networks Zambia, a subsidiary of Bharti Airtel, a global telecommunications company with operations in over 20 countries across Asia and Africa and a customer base of 91 million, in connection with regulatory compliance with listing requirements of Lusaka Securities Exchange and seeking waivers of certain provisions.

Mergers & Acquisitions

• Acting for Vivo Energy Holdings B.V. in connection with its acquisition of the entire issued share capital of Engen International Holdings (Mauritius) from Engen Holdings (Proprietary), which held majority shares in Engen Petroleum Zambia and Engen Marketing, entities with operations in the petroleum sector in Zambia.
• Acting as local counsel in connection with an acquisition by GoviEx Uranium of two uranium mines in Zambia from African Energy Resources Limited.

Private Equity

• Acting as local counsel for EMR Capital, a global private equity firm, in the acquisition of Lubambe Copper Mines situated in the Copperbelt province of Zambia.