Real Estate & Construction
Structuring the financing of urban growth in West Africa.
Real Estate & Construction
Our view of the sector
Urban growth in West Africa is creating structural demand for housing, offices and retail facilities that conventional financing serves poorly, particularly in the mid-market segments. Secure land tenure and the quality of the legal structuring determine access to financing at least as much as the intrinsic quality of the project.
What we do
- Structuring of property development and off-plan sale (VEFA) financing
- Advising developers on the legal and financial structuring of their projects
- Ijara-type Islamic structuring for the acquisition of real estate assets
- Capital raising from regional institutional investors
Questions we know how to address
- How can the financing of a development project be secured before the final building permit is obtained?
- Which Ijara structure should an institutional investor seeking compliant rental income adopt?
- How should a capital raise from several regional institutional investors be structured?
Structuring advisory for a mixed-use real estate programme — named references available on request, subject to the non-disclosure agreements in force.
Three reasons to entrust us with a real estate & construction mandate.
Legal structuring as rigorous as the financial structuring.
Secure land tenure and the legal structure determine access to financing as much as the quality of the project — we address both together.
Ijara structures for investors seeking compliance.
We structure the acquisition of real estate assets for institutional investors seeking Sharia-compliant rental income.
Financing designed before the final permit is obtained.
We know how to secure a development project upstream, without waiting for the last authorisation before starting the financial structuring.
