The African Corporate Practice focuses on corporate legal work for private equity and portfolio company representations in Africa, as well as African project finance transactions and other African corporate transactions, including joint ventures, U.S. investments in African initiatives, African U.S. inward investment and working with governmental entities in various African countries.  African corporate legal work has been a part of the RDBA founding partner’s professional experience since 1987 when he first worked in apartheid South Africa as a law school summer associate working on anti-apartheid legal cases.  One of RDBA’s first clients was a South African-based private equity fund for whom RDBA negotiated the launch of a joint venture with an international company in relation to a South African operating business.  The African Corporate Practice provides clients with sophisticated African corporate legal experience from a boutique law firm platform.

RDBA attorney African project finance experience includes representing a Southern African national power company in its efforts to acquire electricity distribution assets pursuant to a privatization auction for international bidders, with such representation including reviewing and negotiating the full set of privatization sale agreements and relevant power company operating agreements.

RDBA attorney experience includes serving as the legal advisor to a team retained by a multilateral agency to conduct a full review of an African country’s infrastructure sector and accompanying regulatory regime to both recommend changes and to advise European, U.S. and African executives as to the compatibility of the country's infrastructure sector for private investment and private company participation.

African Corporate Practice