Banking & Lending
Lender and borrower-side counsel on syndicated, bilateral, and structured lending across the region.
Financing that moves at deal speed.
We advise banks, DFIs, credit funds, sponsors, and corporates on the full range of debt financing — from bilateral facilities to complex syndicated and structured lending.
Our team is trusted for market-standard execution on well-trodden structures, and for the imagination required on bespoke ones.
- Syndicated and bilateral facilities
- Acquisition and leveraged finance
- Trade and commodity finance
- Real estate and asset finance
How we approach this practice.
Our Banking & Finance practice advises lenders, borrowers, sponsors, and financial institutions on a wide range of financing transactions — secured and unsecured lending, project finance, acquisition finance, trade finance, structured finance, and refinancings.
We draft and negotiate loan agreements, security documentation, guarantees, and intercreditor arrangements, and advise on regulatory compliance with the Central Bank of Kenya, AML obligations, and financial sector regulations applicable to banks, non-bank financial institutions, and fintechs — as well as sovereign and quasi-sovereign borrowing.
Full-service lending practice.
LMA-standard syndicated facilities for lender and borrower groups.
Debt financing for M&A, sponsor-led and strategic — including margin and covenant design.
Structured trade, commodities, and pre-export finance across regional producers.
Development, investment, and mortgage-backed lending across asset classes.
Complex security packages, cross-border collateral, and intercreditor arrangements.
Amend-and-extend, refinancing, and consensual restructurings for distressed credits.
A disciplined path from concept to close.
- 01Commercial Alignment
We start with the commercial map — economics, control, contributions, and outcome — before drafting a single clause.
- 02Structural Blueprint
A structuring memo sets out the vehicle, jurisdiction, tax treatment, and regulatory path, benchmarked against comparable matters.
- 03Documentation
Bespoke documentation drafted as an integrated instrument set — designed to survive later scrutiny.
- 04Approvals & Closing
Regulator engagement, condition-precedent management, and a disciplined closing choreography.
- 05Stewardship
Ongoing counsel through the life of the matter — governance, calendaring, and dispute-prevention.
Selected banking mandates.
A partial view of the mandates we have advised on — sanitised for confidentiality, but indicative of the scale and complexity of our work.
- 01
Advised the mandated lead arrangers on a USD 250m syndicated facility for a regional agribusiness group.
- 02
Represented a sponsor on the debt financing for a mid-market acquisition, including subordinated tranches.
- 03
Acted for a DFI on a structured trade finance facility for a listed manufacturer.
- 04
Led the lender-side workstream on a complex real estate development financing.
Partners leading the practice.
Where this work connects.
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