Baker McKenzie wins EMEA Finance African Banking Awards pan-African Law Firm of the Year 2023

Baker McKenzie wins EMEA Finance African Banking Awards pan-African Law Firm of the Year 2023

Global law firm Baker McKenzie’s Africa-focused Banking & Finance team has won the EMEA Finance African Banking Awards pan-African Law Firm of the Year for 2023. This is the third year in a row that the team has received this award.

The team is known as the adviser of choice to financial institutions working in Africa and is renowned for its strong presence in bank-to-bank syndicated lending, export and structured trade finance and development bank financing across the continent. The Africa-focused Banking & Finance team has been particularly active as legal counsel in multiple export finance and structured trade finance transactions for key financial institutions in Africa, leading the way on many key financing transactions for both the private and public sector in jurisdictions such as Angola, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Nigeria, Sénégal, South Africa,Tunisia and Zimbabwe.

The team has extensive experience in the financial sector, advising national development financial institutions, multilateral development banks and export credit agencies on a wide range of transactions, including acquisition finance, project finance, restructuring and insolvency, derivatives, financial services and regulation, securitisation and capital markets, both globally and in Africa.

For example, the team recently advised on Project Gleam, the EUR