The legal behemoth has opened the final office of its four planned Africa launches announced in 2024. Dentons has launched its inaugural office in Cameroon, finalising its 2025 round of openings ...

The new platform has been formed from the acquisition of three local technology companies. Helios Investment Partners has acquired a trio of Moroccan technology companies, launching a platform ...

The Southern African arbitration organisation has added a veteran of ICCA to its leadership. The Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa (AFSA) has appointed International Council for Commercial ...

Absa’s Jeff Gable and Anthony Kirui explore how African countries are laying the foundation for long-term structural transformation, even in the face of global adversity. Nicole Martens of research ...

The USD 1.3 billion acquisition of one of South Africa’s largest industrial companies has been given the go-ahead subject to certain public interest conditions. A leading Kenyan arbitration lawyer and ...

The Central African country’s new data protection Act enshrines many international standards, but has some unique features which will need careful attention from data controllers, write Aissatou Sylla ...

Aissatou Sylla of Hogan Lovells and José Maria de Pina of Cape Verde’s data protection authority comment on the new amendment to the country’s Data Protection Act. The Republic of Cape Verde has ...

Charles Russell Speechlys partners Thomas Snider and Adrian Mayer explore the Middle Eastern country’s increasingly close relationship with the African continent amid rising levels of private ...

Online automotive marketplace Sylndr has concluded its Series A funding round, involving notable international and Africa-focused law firms. Egyptian trading platform Sylndr has closed its Series A ...

What is the potential of Nigeria’s oil and gas industry under a proposed new law? Hamish McArdle and Tom Edwards of Baker Botts consider the possibilities. Nigeria’s long awaited restructuring of its ...

The Swiss courts have ruled that two Egyptian energy companies must pay a nearly USD 2 billion arbitration award to an Israeli energy company, and further damages to another. The Swiss Supreme Court ...

Tameru Wondm Agegnehu, founding partner of the Ethiopian firm of the same name, and Laurence Shore from BonelliErede, consider how Ethiopia will implement the New York Convention, which guarantees the ...