The firm has hired a returning lawyer to its Egypt branch after a nine-month absence. Matouk Bassiouny has added Khaled Diaa as a partner in its Cairo corporate and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) ...

Christopher Burke, a senior adviser at WMC Africa, explores how greater IP recognition can help young people enter the formal economy. A 23-year-old fashion designer sells hand-printed t-shirts with ...

Online automotive marketplace Sylndr has concluded its Series A funding round, involving notable international and Africa-focused law firms. Egyptian trading platform Sylndr has closed its Series A ...

Charles Russell Speechlys partners Thomas Snider and Adrian Mayer explore the Middle Eastern country’s increasingly close relationship with the African continent amid rising levels of private ...

A shipping disputes specialist has left Clyde & Co to join Norton Rose Fulbright in Cape Town as a director. Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) has hired a shipping and transport litigation and arbitration ...

ICC Kenya’s Nikhil Desai and JMiles & Co associate Maurice Masiga write about arbitration’s bright future in the East African jurisdiction. Arbitration is an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) ...

Tumultuous political circumstances have sparked disputes over uranium resources in the West African state, placing French and Canadian nuclear operations in the balance. Niger has entered a tug of war ...

Following last year’s government directive, Dodoma’s new regulations explicitly ban the use of foreign currency in all but a handful of circumstances. Tanzania has enacted subsidiary legislation, ...

The Morocco-founded law firm has welcomed a New York-qualified counsel with considerable experience at international professional services providers. Multi-jurisdictional African law firm Bennani & ...

The West African country’s central bank has collaborated with a national financial regulator in publishing a guide to best practice in the foreign exchange bureau sector to combat money-laundering, ...

The country will become the 14th SADC member state to join the Southern African free trade market – which provides reduced trade tariffs and greater foreign investment. The Southern African ...

The firm has snapped up a prolific lawyer with over three decades of experience, along with two of his team. Bowmans has added corporate and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) partner Gasant Orrie to its ...