{"id":1292,"date":"2023-01-26T13:32:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carnage.cc\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2023-01-26T13:32:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T13:32:00","slug":"olaniwun-ajayi-uk-llp-advises-africa-finance-corporation-on-its-investment-in-lightrock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oalp.vr4creativity.com\/london\/olaniwun-ajayi-uk-llp-advises-africa-finance-corporation-on-its-investment-in-lightrock\/","title":{"rendered":"Olaniwun Ajayi (UK) LLP advises Africa Finance Corporation on its investment in Lightrock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Olaniwun Ajayi (UK) LLP, the international arm of leading African law firm, Olaniwun Ajayi LP, has advised Africa Finance Corporation, Africa\u2019s leading infrastructure solutions provider, on its investment in Lightrock, a global private equity platform, specialising in investments in growth-stage technology-driven companies.\u00a0 The investment, which is in the form of a senior secured term loan facility<strong><u>,<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0will support follow-on investments by Lightrock in high growth portfolio companies in the technology space operating across Africa, including Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria and South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Olaniwun Ajayi (UK) LLP team was led by London-based partner, Chuks Ibechukwu, and London senior associate, Juanita Derex-Briggs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chuks Ibechukwu commented:&nbsp;<em>\u201cOur firm has extensive experience working closely with development finance institutions on their investments in Africa.&nbsp; We are delighted to have supported Africa Finance Corporation on this transaction, extending our track record advising DFIs and their clients in the private equity industry, particularly on an investment of this type, which addresses critical gaps in access to financial services in Africa.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olaniwun Ajayi (UK) LLP, the international arm of leading African law firm, Olaniwun Ajayi LP, has advised Africa Finance Corporation, Africa\u2019s leading infrastructure solutions provider, on its investment in Lightrock, a global private equity platform, specialising in investments in growth-stage technology-driven companies.\u00a0 The investment, which is in the form of a senior secured term loan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[11,14],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deal-announcement","category-news","tag-africa-finance-corporation","tag-cross-border-financing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oalp.vr4creativity.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oalp.vr4creativity.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oalp.vr4creativity.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oalp.vr4creativity.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oalp.vr4creativity.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oalp.vr4creativity.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oalp.vr4creativity.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oalp.vr4creativity.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oalp.vr4creativity.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oalp.vr4creativity.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}