12/12/2014
International law firm advises on U.S.$750,000,000 sovereign bond tap issue by the Republic of Kenya
International law firm has advised the joint lead managers in relation to the U.S.$750,000,000 tap issue by the Republic of Kenya of its debut issue of U.S.$500,000,000 5.875% Notes due 2019 and U.S.$1,500,000,000 6.875% Not
12/08/2014
Africa business in brief | issue 91 | 2014-12
12/04/2014
Peter Petrou, a 30 year-old British-born, international award-winning Commercial Lawyer, has advised several of the world’s largest corporations on doing business in Africa.
12/02/2014
Leading global law boosts South African offering with two new partners
The firm has an extensive practice covering the African continent. We have three offices in Cairo, Casablanca and Johannesburg and regularly work on matters involving other African countries.
11/27/2014
Indications emerged Wednesday that the rights issue proposed by Access Bank Plc to raise the sum of N68 billion for its operations has been enmeshed in litigation following a suit filed by some aggrieved shareholders against the management of the bank.
11/27/2014
Africa's largest law firm boosts banking & finance team
He is a qualified English lawyer
11/27/2014
The DIFC Courts, Dubai’s established English-language, commercial common law judicial system, today signed a landmark enforcement document with the High Court of Kenya (Commercial and Admiralty Division) in a move that further reinforces the UAE&
11/27/2014
Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Germany's BASF SE and Standard Bank and one other big platinum and palladium dealers have been sued in the US.
11/25/2014
The Ivory Coast association of legal consultants has joined the Ivory Coast bar association in voicing its opposition to Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe’s plans to launch an affiliated office in the country.
11/25/2014
Kenya's central bank chief filed an appeal on Tuesday asking a court to throw out a case accusing him of abusing his office through his involvement in issuing a tender to install security software at the bank.
11/20/2014
Landmark judgement in Supreme Court of Appeal upholds deferred delivery share scheme
In its first and much anticipated judgement in relation to the interpretation of section 8A of the Income Tax Act, and to Deferred Delivery Share Schemes, a full bench of the Supreme Court of Appeal unanimously upheld the taxpayers’ contentions as t
11/20/2014
Remo’s lawyer Everson Samkange said following the Supreme Court’s ruling, his client (Remo Investment Brokers) approached the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange on Tuesday with a view to find an amicable solution to the matter.
11/19/2014
The High Court of Justice, Queens Bench in London, had on August 1, 2012, ordered Akingbola to pay Access Bank £654 million over some fraudulent transactions when he was in charge of the defunct bank.
11/19/2014
The court had given the order in favour of Dangote Floor Mills Plc
11/17/2014
The court battle around the multi-billion shilling Britam Investments firm, which has become talk of town in business circles, is baffling.
11/17/2014
Fagbuyiro, in a petition signed by his lawyer, Romanus Eze, recalled that the card got trapped at about 4:14p.m. on September 11, while all efforts to retrieved it were unsuccessful.
11/14/2014
International law firm Expands its Africa Group
He is the fourteenth partner hire to the firm so far this year.
11/12/2014
Three Nigerians have filed a suit against the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, for its recent decision to reintroduce charges on cash withdrawals from a different bank’s automated teller machine, ATM, after the third use in a month.
11/10/2014
Ivory Coast Bar vows to pursue Global law firm for 'breaching' bar rules
The Bar Association issued a declaration saying the move contravened its rules.
11/05/2014
Africa’s largest law firm joins forces with one of Namibia’s most prominent law firms
It is a full service law firm with expertise covering all aspects of commercial, litigation, mining and energy, banking, intellectual property, aviation, shipping, competition, insurance, industrial relations, labour, transport, pension funds and medical