Regulatory & Compliance Law

Deal execution gets most of the attention, but a fund’s legal exposure doesn’t end at financial close. Ongoing compliance, portfolio companies under distress, and increasingly digital asset exposure all carry their own legal demands, and they tend to arrive with less warning than a transaction does. A few places where that ongoing exposure tends to […]

Fund managers rarely lose a deal because the thesis was wrong. They lose momentum — across fundraising, deployment, and exit — at a fairly predictable set of points, most of which have nothing to do with the investment case. Here’s where that friction actually sits. The engagement model gets picked wrong more often than the

There is a particular point in an investment or acquisition where the commercial negotiation appears to be finished. The term sheet is signed. Valuation is agreed. The broad economics are settled. Everyone knows the headline deal. Then the lawyers start drafting the long-form agreements. Six weeks later, the shareholders’ agreement or sale agreement arrives and

In South Africa, energy deals don’t get delayed because everyone disagrees on the vision. They get delayed because the fundamentals that lenders and boards care about aren’t pinned down early enough. Here are the six bankability basics we push to the front of the process – because they save months later. 1) Land and rights:

Most multinationals measure legal function maturity by headcount, technology spend, or policy coverage. A more honest measure is simpler: what happens to institutional knowledge when a member of the legal team leaves or moves roles? In most subsidiary and regional legal functions across Africa, the answer is that it leaves with them. This is not