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Pan-African Trade Financings
Deneys Reitz / Africa Legal continue to advise various clients in relation to commodity trade financings throughout Africa. Recent instructions include advising ABSA, Rand Merchant Bank (both leading South African banks) and Louis Dreyfus Africa (an international trading company) in separate transactions (some ongoing) in relation to various trade financings, including petroleum products in Zimbabwe and Zambia and Tanzania; sugar supplies to Mali; financing maize, maize seed, fertilizer, various cereals and foodstuffs to government and parastatal corporations in Zambia and Malawi; telecommunications equipment financing in Côte d´Ivoire; supplies of buses and omnibus parts, and bus monitoring equipment to Côte d´Ivoire; acquisition of foodstuffs and food-processing equipment, to Gabon, maize financing and trading in Kenya, Malawi and Mozambique, and coffee financing and trading in Uganda; advising Citibank, Rand Merchant Bank and Barclays Bank in regard to proposed $60 million trade financing for foodstuffs for an Angolan parastatal corporation; financing by Investec of imports for a SA Breweries subsidiary in Mozambique.
Africa Legal - Online, July 2006.
Africa Legal Team
The Africa Legal team includes English solicitors, South African attorneys, and French, Hong Kong and Zimbabwean qualified lawyers. All team members have extensive pan-African deal experience and share a special interest and expertise in Africa. Click on the names or faces of the team members to see their résumés.