Differences in law, regulation and business culture can significantly increase the risk and complexity of doing business in Africa. Our aim is to assist our clients in achieving their objectives as smoothly and efficiently as possible whilst minimising legal and regulatory risks.

Whilst reliable technical legal advice is always very important, the ability to deliver advice in a coherent, relevant way, combined with transaction management, structuring, negotiating and drafting skills is essential to the supply of high-quality legal services.

Bowman Gilfillan's Africa Group has harnessed our skills, experience and relationships in order to provide legal services to international standards to the benefit of our clients in Africa.

"The lawyers are superb. They deliver practical commercial advice and have good team support"- Chambers Global 2010

our network

Our approach is to ensure that our clients receive the best legal advice available by combining our skills and experience with that of leading practitioners in African countries.

Bowman Gilfillan established the Africa Group to unite lawyers across the firm in providing integrated legal services to our clients throughout Africa. Focusing primarily on corporate law, commercial law and financial law, the Africa Group facilitatescross-border legal services of the highest global standards in Africa.

The Group serves corporations, financial institutions, parastatals and governments by offering the expert and timely legal advice they need in order to achieve their commercial objectives on the continent. The Africa Group's dynamic relationships with prestigious commercial law firms across the continent, afford our clients excellent and dependable legal advice, irrespective of where they are based in Africa.