In recent years, the importance of foreign investment in Africa has been a major feature of the continent's economic news.
While global investment is down for the third consecutive year (-13% according to the World Investment Report, published on 12 June 2019 by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development), Africa is escaping this general trend: on the contrary, foreign direct investment is increasing by nearly 11%, even if it still accounts for a tiny share of global financial flows (3.5%).
Sydram & Saliou Bah Associés acts for foreign investors in most economic and financial sectors (industry, mining, energy, financial services, infrastructure). We assist our clients in all their projects of establishment, cooperation, distribution, conclusion and execution of industrial projects (engineering, technology transfer, turnkey contracts, etc.).
We assist our clients in all their projects of establishment, cooperation, distribution, conclusion and execution of industrial projects (engineering, technology transfer, turnkey contracts, etc.).
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We assist our clients at all stages of the project. We provide them with information on how to obtain financing for their project from investment banks and credit institutions. Our firm ensures that multilateral negotiations, conducted in parallel, often over several months, with several stakeholders, are managed very carefully in a multinational and multicultural context.
The firm also advises its clients on capital transfers (repatriation of dividends in particular), as well as on all matters relating to applicable foreign exchange legislation.