An African entrepreneur and business leader had embarked on a new phase in his career, establishing a proprietary investment holding company to make transformative investments in a range of sectors across the continent. The investment company was not yet recognised as a brand and needed to be positioned strategically in order to compete for deals and attract partners among leading global DFIs, institutional investors and corporates.

An investor in East Africa’s mining sector needed to address the risk posed by the unexpected introduction of onerous local content requirements which jeopardized the project’s imminent financial close. Beyond the initial threat, the company also sought to secure its long term social license in a complex and dynamic stakeholder and regulatory environment.

A major international mining company faced expropriation in a West African country. Africa Practice was engaged to supply detailed political insights and advisory services to inform our client’s strategic decisions and negotiations with the host government.

A leading manufacturer of high end construction materials made a strategic decision to invest in sub-Saharan Africa in search of new growth markets for two of its main product lines, given the slowing demand in more mature markets in Europe, the Americas and Asia. The company did not have any existing experience in or knowledge of SSA markets and required opportunity identification and market-entry support.

A global FMCG leader needed to gain a deeper insight into the major trends shaping the consumer landscape in Africa and identify how these trends might converge in ways which could represent opportunities for discontinuous scale growth over the next 5 years. The company needed to identify potential strategic partnerships designed to unlock such growth and our recommendations needed to be actionable in their priority markets and demonstrate potential for regional scaleability.

A major consumer-facing company was rolling out an investment programme, coinciding with a planned major expansion announcement. However these plans were put at risk when the company was sanctioned by multiple regulators as a result of alleged wrong-doing.