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Africa is gaining increasing significance as one of the world's key emerging markets. Set to be the world's largest working population by 2050, the need and growth opportunity is substantial. With accelerated economic growth across a number of countries and sectors, high returns on investment, and progress in the areas of political reform, macroeconomic stability, and social development, it is an attractive destination for investment. Hogan Lovells has 50 years’ experience on the continent and our lawyers work together as part of your team, to help you successfully navigate the continent’s unique business environments.
We operate across Africa through our global network of offices and partnerships with African firms. Our team, including lawyers from Europe, the Middle East, the Americas and Asia, collaborates regularly, sharing knowledge and updates to ensure we consistently deliver top-quality service to our clients. These long-standing and diverse clients value our client-centric, innovative and award-winning approach.
We are committed to building business in Africa and advise inbound, outbound, and pan-African clients on their strategic goals. Our Africa Practice offers a comprehensive suite of corporate and commercial, finance, projects and dispute resolution services. Across the practice areas, our diverse teams have strong expertise in all industry sectors including energy and natural resources, financial services, technology and telecoms, infrastructure, consumer, aviation, automotive and life sciences. Our specialist team of experienced professionals provide end-to-end legal support on transactions to ensure that our clients get the deal done. We listen to and understand their business needs to create tailored commercial, legal solutions that deliver results.
Through our Hogan Lovells Connect program, we work closely with the most reputable law firms to ensure consistency and quality. Rather than establishing a formal partnership structure or setting up offices in each country, for us, building strong relationships is key, and it is an important aspect of being able to provide a comprehensive legal service to clients. We work regularly with this network of leading local lawyers, many for over a decade, so we know them, and they know us, very well. This means we are confident in recommending them to our clients and our close collaboration guarantees the delivery of quick, efficient and the highest quality work, in keeping with our internationally recognized standard. As a result, we have worked in over 45 African countries and have good contacts in every nation on the continent. We are also committed to making a positive impact on local communities by investing in social enterprise and in-country capacity building.
At Hogan Lovells, we are experts in the law, but also passionate about and deeply committed to Africa. As a global firm with a focus on the continent, we combine world-class legal excellence with a true understanding of Africa’s opportunities and challenges. Choose Hogan Lovells as your trusted legal partner for Africa.
Representative experience
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Advising China Baowu Steel Group on its investment in the Simandou project in the Republic of Guinea. This landmark project is the largest mining and infrastructure project in Africa and in the world with a total required investment of reportedly US$15 -20billion and consists of mining, port and rail infrastructure.
Advising the Republic of Ghana in closing its precedent setting restructuring of its outstanding Eurobond debt. This international restructuring follows the successful conclusion of Ghana’s first-of-its-kind comprehensive domestic debt exchange in October 2023.
Advising the Government of Ghana on Ghana’s domestic and external debt restructuring. This process included all aspects related to the negotiation with the IMF on the Debt Sustainability Analysis for Ghana and for an Extended Loan Facility for US$ 3bn approved in May 2023.
Advising Chevron on its country exit from the Republic of Congo through the sale of upstream assets to Trident Energy.
Advising Bureau Veritas on the sale of its food analysis business in the USA, Canada, LATAM, Asia and Africa (mainly Morocco and South Africa) ((share deals)) to Mérieux NutriSciences for an enterprise value of €360 million.
Advising IFC, DFC and AfDB, as senior lenders on a $45 million proposed senior secured financing to a subsidiary of Institut Pasteur de Dakar for the development, construction, equipping and placing into operation of a vaccine manufacturing plant in Senegal.
Advising the lenders on a €300 million financing for Aéroport International Blaise Diagne, Sénégal.
Advising Proparco and Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF) on the financing of Dakar's future 100% electric BRT bus network, operated by Dakar Mobilité.
Advising IFC and Proparco on the joint financing of a ground-breaking and complex real estate development in Kigali, Rwanda, with significant developmental impact.
Advising IFC and Proparco on the joint financing of a large and complex real estate development in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, with significant developmental impact.
Advising International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Société Générale, as co-arrangers on the US$300 million structured trade financing provided to Societe Ivoirienne de Raffinage (which supplies effectively all the refined petroleum products in Cote d’Ivoire, Burkino Faso and Mali) to fund oil imports for its oil refinery.
Advising Allied Gold in relation to various aspects of the development, construction and operation of the Agbaou mine in Cote d’Ivoire.
Advising the lenders in relation to the development and financing of the Ilute solar PV Project in Zambia, involving Africa GreenCo as offtaker under the PPA.
Advising Enterprise Power in relation to the development, construction and financing of an interconnector line between Zambia and the DRC, including advising on the power purchase arrangements in Zambia and the power sale arrangements to mining companies in the DRC.
Advising African Export-Import Bank as Mandated Lead Arranger and Bookrunner in relation to a US$400,000,000 secured multi-tranche term and revolving facility agreement made available to Arise Integrated Industrial Platforms Limited ("Arise").
Advising African Export-Import Bank in the context of financing the construction of hotels (Gabon, Ivory Coast, Guinea-Conakry, Cape Verde).
Advising African Export-Import Bank on its entire range of products for the refinancing of local banks (Mauritania, Senegal, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, etc.) involved in the financing of importers of essential goods (oil, raw materials, etc.).
Advising the International Finance Corporation (IFC) on a significant equity investment in WIOCC to finance the laying of a seabed cable along the east Coast of Africa with multiple feeder lines into 19 countries on the continent.
The United States International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) on the complex multi-lender financing of an expansion and upgrade program for Africell’s telecom and telebanking operations in Angola, the DRC, The Gambia, Sierra Leone, and Uganda.
The Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank (TDB) on a US$30,000,000 securitization-based facility to develop affordable, solar-powered energy in Tanzania.
Awards and recognitions
Team of the Year: Infrastructure
IFLR Africa Awards
2025
Deal of the Year: Projects
IFLR Africa Awards
2025
Rising Star International Award – Aldo Boni De Nobili
IFLR Africa Awards
2025
Transport Deal of the Year – Africa
IJ Global Awards
2024
Deal of the Year: Projects
IFLR Africa Awards
2024
Deal of the Year: Restructuring
IFLR Africa Awards
2024
Team of the Year: Private Equity
IFLR Africa Awards
2024
Power Deal of the Year
IJ Global Awards
2023
Refinance Deal of the Year
IJ Global Awards
2023
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