This practice area focuses on providing legal advisory and transaction services in relation to banking, remediation of troubled bank assets, debt recovery and insolvency; financing and refinancing transactions; project finance; acquisition finance; asset finance; development finance; capital markets, corporate finance, swaps and other derivative transactions; corporate advisory including mergers, acquisitions, takeovers, corporate restructurings, private equity financing, and money market transactions; capital market transactions including capital raising (debt and equity), securities’ floatation, listings and collective investment schemes; due diligence including corporate governance, risk management and regulatory compliance.

MAJOR TRANSACTIONS

Advising foreign institutional investors on cross-border arrangements in relation to trading in securities in Cameroon including corporate and government bonds.

Acted as legal advisers to a London-based bank in connection with US$40 million finance to a local bank

Advised on a merger transaction involving six banks

Advised on the divestment of six subsidiaries of a bank.

Advised on a merger transaction involving three insurance companies.