The ICC Court unveiled plans for a new African office during its conference in Nairobi, while business representatives reiterated the value of arbitration as a tool for cross-border trade. Lawyers and ...

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 ...

The draft legislation comes as part of the African state’s wider plan to bring the mining sector into the modern era. The South African Mineral Resources Development Bill 2025 (Draft Bill) has been ...

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 ...

Former DWF mining and minerals head Ali Boroumand aims to bring clients the expertise of a high-profile firm with the expense of a one-man shop. “I discovered that [the] brand is not that important.

Female-led Nairobi firm Cavendrys aims to provide legal guidance across the technology sector in Kenya and wider Africa. Kenyan lawyers Janet Othero and Catherine Kariuki Mulika have opened the doors ...

The agreement was sealed at the Africa CEO Forum 2025 earlier in May. The Africa CEO Forum 2025 saw a EUR 150 million deal struck between several parties to develop a mixed-use urban complex, and a ...

Guinea-headquartered Thiam & Associés has established a presence in Côte d’Ivoire, with its capital city also the chosen location for an ex-Asafo & Co lawyer’s new venture. Guinea-founded law firm ...

Africa-focused law firm ASAFO & CO has established a presence in the United States by launching a new office in Washington, DC. ASAFO & CO has launched a new Washington, DC office just as the Biden ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lawyers in the UK have drawn attention to the mistreatment and persecution of lawyers in Egypt, as part of a UN review of the country’s human rights situation. The Law Society of England and Wales has ...