We advise businesses, investors and institutions navigating Africa’s evolving energy and natural resources landscape, combining commercial, regulatory and strategic insight to support sustainable projects, investments and growth.
Energy is one of the few sectors where the regulatory framework can change faster than the assets being financed against it. Electricity regulation has devolved to the states and the map continues to shift. Petroleum governance was restructured and the regulators that emerged are still settling into their mandates. Meanwhile an entirely new layer has formed around the transition — carbon pricing, climate finance, sustainability disclosure — which increasingly determines which projects attract international capital and which exports face costs on arrival.
Anyone building, financing or operating in this environment is making long-dated commitments against a moving framework. Waiting for complete regulatory certainty is rarely a workable strategy in a market that continues to evolve.
We help clients act inside that uncertainty rather than around it. That means establishing which regulator actually holds the pen on a given question, structuring projects and investments so they survive regulatory change rather than depending on its absence, and turning licence conditions, offtake terms and host community obligations into commitments the business can genuinely meet.
Our practice spans both sides of this market. Conventional energy: petroleum across the value chain, power generation, distribution and supply sits alongside the transition, where our work covers carbon capture contracting, carbon border adjustment, voluntary carbon markets and climate finance. That combination is deliberate. A Nigerian energy business today has to be credible in both: the asset is conventional, the capital increasingly is not.