Lex Mundi Publishes New Report - Africa 2016: Legal Strategies for Investment and Growth
Houston, Texas (PRWEB) September 27, 2016 -- Lex Mundi, in cooperation with The Lawyer, has published a new report, Africa 2016: Legal Strategies for Investment and Growth, which focuses on the opportunities and challenges of investing in Africa and the insights from business leaders and legal experts who participated in the 2016 Lex Mundi Emerging Africa Conference in Cape Town.
The report covers topics discussed at the conference including:
• underlying growth drivers and investment trends;
• implementing growth strategies in line with local development objectives;
• changing regulatory frameworks; and
• structuring of transactions to satisfy broad stakeholder interests and public interest concerns.
The new complimentary report, Africa 2016: Legal Strategies for Investment and Growth, elaborates on understanding the opportunity in Africa, the four major investment trends that define foreign direct investment (FDI), and the four key challenges inhibiting FDI in Africa.
Lex Mundi in Africa
With more than 500 lawyers on the ground in nineteen African jurisdictions, Lex Mundi member firms have experience working together to provide investors coordinated legal advice and service covering all relevant areas of commercial and financial law, including mergers and acquisitions, dispute resolution, antitrust and competition, compliance and tax.
Lex Mundi member firms in Africa are working on transactions across the continent. Together they provide extensive coverage and are committed to working together to provide on-the-ground expertise.
About Lex Mundi
Lex Mundi is the world’s leading network of independent law firms with in-depth experience in 100+ countries. Lex Mundi member firms offer clients preferred access to more than 21,000 lawyers worldwide – a global resource of unmatched breadth and depth. Each member firm is selected on the basis of its leadership in – and continued commitment to – its local market. The Lex Mundi principle is one independent firm for each jurisdiction. Firms must maintain their level of excellence to retain membership within Lex Mundi.
Through close collaboration, information-sharing, training and inter-firm initiatives, the Lex Mundi network is an assurance of connected, on-the ground expertise in every market in which a client needs to operate. Working together, Lex Mundi members are able to seamlessly handle their clients’ most challenging cross-border transactions and disputes.
Member law firms are located throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean and North America. Through Lex Mundi’s nonprofit affiliate, the Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation, members also provide pro bono legal assistance to social entrepreneurs around the globe.
For more information, please visit http://www.lexmundi.com and http://www.lexmundiprobono.org.
Kathleen Pope-Sance, Lex Mundi, http://www.lexmundi.com, +1 713.328.4521, [email protected]
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