Cross-border transactions fail not from want of commercial logic but from the collision of legal systems, regulatory expectations, and cultural assumptions that were never made explicit. Our practice addresses this failure at its source: the design of transaction architectures that account for jurisdictional asymmetry from inception rather than discovering it in execution.

We advise on technology transfer, joint ventures, and infrastructure concessions across Africa, the Middle East, and South and Southeast Asia — regions where the formal legal framework frequently diverges from the operative regulatory reality, where political risk is embedded in contractual performance, and where the distinction between a signed agreement and an implemented one is determined by relationships and institutional dynamics that no due diligence report fully captures.

Technology transfer advisory demands a particular precision: the structuring of intellectual property protections across jurisdictions with incompatible IP regimes, the calibration of licensing terms that incentivise local adoption without surrendering proprietary advantage, and the design of phased transfer protocols that align the interests of the technology originator with those of the local operating entity over the full lifecycle of the engagement.

Infrastructure concessions in frontier markets require the integration of commercial, sovereign, and development finance perspectives within a single transaction structure. We navigate the tension between the return expectations of private capital and the public interest obligations of host governments, designing structures in which these imperatives reinforce rather than undermine one another.