The members of Trinity are widely recognised for their corporate and financing work in Africa by commentators including Chambers Global. The team has acted on a wide range of transactions in Africa and has a real understanding of doing business on the continent. Trinity is active across a range of sectors, including energy, oil and gas, mining and natural resources, transport, infrastructure, telecoms, chemicals, manufacturing and water. Trinity focuses on its core areas of project finance and general corporate work, acting for all transaction participants including corporates, project sponsors, commercial banks, development finance institutions (DFIs), export credit agencies (ECAs), political risk providers, parastatals and governments. Project finance work encompasses all areas from the initial corporate structure and documentation, through construction, operation and maintenance, financing and refinancing and beyond. Corporate advice can include anything from large acquisitions or disposals of substantive businesses, to specific advice on joint venture and shareholder structures, corporate governance and corporate restructurings through to full scale privatisations.

Relevant transactions include:

  • Gas pipeline project, Mozambique to South Africa (Project Finance magazine Africa Oil & Gas Deal of the Year)
  • Lagos Toll Road, Nigeria (The first Private Public Partnership transport project in Nigeria)
  • Financing of Vodacom Tanzania (Project Finance magazine Africa Telecoms Deal of the Year)
  • Kilimanjaro Airport privatisation, Tanzania (British Consultants Bureau Consultancy of the Year award)
  • Maputo Port, Mozambique, believed to be the first privatisation of the port authority function in the emerging markets
  • MBO of Copperbelt Energy Corporation PLC, Zambia, believed to be the biggest outside South Africa


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