• Introduction

• Areas of expertise:

  • Corporate and commercial
  • Litigation and dispute management
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Project finance
  • Real estate
  • Statutory and regulatory
• Case study
• What others say

Project finance

Project finance is particularly appropriate for infrastructure development on the African continent, across a wide range of sectors. Based in Sandton, the financial hub of South Africa, our team is well positioned to assist clients in such ventures.

With an in-depth understanding of lending institutions' approach to risk, the team is ideally placed to advise lenders and sponsors alike on the structuring of projects to attract optimum financing, with an emphasis on risk analysis and risk mitigation. Equally, the team is well equipped to assist banks in the structuring of this complex form of financing and in preparing the documentation that is required to achieve financial closure. Due diligence plays a large role in project financing, the end result being a bankable feasibility study. The team has extensive experience in this regard.

We are able to assist in the following areas of project finance:

• Pre-feasibility and bankable feasibility studies
• Project documentation (concession agreements, construction contracts, supply agreements, off take agreements, operations & maintenance contracts and shareholder and joint venture agreements
• Finance documentation (loan documentation, security trusts and security documentation, and inter-creditor agreements)
• Legal opinions