Since 2006, Constelor’s partners have advised investors, companies and governments on energy, trade and infrastructure across the continent. We do the patient work that decides whether a deal closes: the regulation, the risk and the relationships.
Constelor in brief
For , from , our have prepared power projects, trade programmes and partnerships for the people who finance and run them.
Our view
Most of Africa still trades across borders drawn in colonial times. We have spent twenty years making them matter less.
We have worked with national governments, regional economic communities and African Union bodies to make trade between African countries simpler, and took part in establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area. That work gives our clients an inside view of how the rules are written, and of how they are applied at the border.
- World Bank
- International Monetary Fund
- Africa Finance Corporation
- Ecobank Group
- AfroChampions Initiative
- Africa-South East Asia Chamber of Commerce
Who we advise
Investors and lenders
Opportunities that survive due diligence. Funds, lenders and development finance institutions come to us for the view from the ground: which markets suit a mandate, how a regulator is likely to behave and which local sponsors can be relied on. We test an opportunity the way a credit committee will, before it reaches one. Questions we help answer Which markets fit our mandate and our appetite for risk?Will this project survive lender due diligence?Which local sponsors and partners can we rely on? How we work with investors
Companies
Growth across borders, with fewer surprises. Whether you are entering Africa for the first time or moving from one market into the next, we help you choose where to go, set up properly and find partners you can build a business with. We have set up companies in every market we cover, and we know where the delays usually come from. Questions we help answer Which market should we enter first, and why?What will the regulator and the tax authority expect of us?How do we reach neighbouring markets under the AfCFTA? How we work with companies
Governments and institutions
Projects that private capital will fund. Ministries, PPP units and regional bodies ask us to prepare projects for investment and to turn trade commitments, including the AfCFTA, into rules that traders can use. Our partners have sat on both sides of the table, so we know what investors will ask and what the public interest requires. Questions we help answer Is this project ready to take to investors?How should risk be shared with the private sector?How do our AfCFTA commitments become working trade? How we work with governmentsExpertise
Four practices built on one conviction, formed over twenty years of mandates: projects are won or lost in preparation, and local rules decide what gets built.
Our work
A selection of mandates we have carried from the first question to signature.
Illustrative examples. Real mandates will replace them before launch.
How we work
Three habits we have kept since 2006, whatever the market or the sector.
Country first
Every venture lives under the rules of the country it sits in. Before we advise in any market, we examine its regulatory environment in detail, so clients understand the process before they are inside it.
Prepared to be financed
Good projects rarely fail for lack of capital. They fail in preparation. We do the groundwork lenders and investors look for, and we do it before they are in the room.
Partners lead the work
A partner leads each mandate from the first brief to the final signature, so clients deal directly with the people whose experience and relationships they are relying on.
Where we work
Three offices in West and East Africa, and partners who travel the continent between them.
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Accra
Ghana
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Dakar
Senegal
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Kigali
Rwanda
Insights
All insightsHave a mandate in mind?
Tell us what you are weighing. A partner will read it personally and reply within two working days.
The Africa Briefing
A quarterly note from our partners on energy, trade and investment across Africa: what we are seeing in our mandates, and what it means for yours. Four emails a year, and nothing else.