WLA co-practices the UK to AFRICA corridor on both sides simultaneously. One brief activates the origination-side specialists and the destination-side execution team, jointly holding the matter under one Institutional framework from brief to close.
ONE BRIEF.
BOTH JURISDICTIONS HELD.
The defining WLA advantage: partner firms on both sides jointly hold the matter simultaneously — aligned strategy from day one, no handoff gap, no information asymmetry between sides.
WLA UK partner firms managing the origination of UK private and development capital into Africa, including BII-backed transactions, UKEF structures, and UK company law aspects of African investment vehicles.
FIND ORIGINATION SPECIALIST →WLA Africa partner firms across Kenya, Zambia, Nigeria, Tanzania, Ghana, South Africa, and Mauritius managing the full African law execution, regulatory approvals, and local partnership structures.
FIND EXECUTION SPECIALIST →THREE THEMES DRIVING
THIS CORRIDOR IN 2026.
UK private capital and development finance into African critical minerals — lithium, cobalt, copper, and rare earth extraction. English law mining contracts under local mining frameworks.
British International Investment deploying GBP 7.5B across sub-Saharan Africa. WLA UK coordinates origination and WLA Africa co-practices the on-the-ground execution.
UK project finance into African renewable energy and infrastructure. Kenya wind and solar. Nigerian gas-to-power. South African offshore wind. WLA co-practices both sides.