Infrastructure Projects
Infrastructure Projects
We have vast experience in assisting clients in the public and private sectors in the negotiations of contract terms, review and drafting, for infrastructure projects.
We regularly advise on Public Private Partnerships.
We have also built a solid knowledge database by advising multinational companies on construction and maintenance of communications infrastructure such as data centres and fibre optics networks.
Our experience:
Please find below a few selected projects:
We have been appointed as lead legal advisor in a waste management PPP transaction initiated by the city of Johannesburg;
We assisted DBSA on the acquisition of an additional shareholding in a solar energy project, by drafting and negotiating the loan agreement and security documents;
We advised a state owned energy company regarding regulatory matters related to a licence dispute under the Petroleum Pipelines Act;
We provided general legal advice to the Department of Water Affairs and Sanitation in respect of public private partnership (“PPP”) related matters. Advising on and formulating the Department’s strategic plan for commercialisation;
We were joint legal advisor on the Chris Hani-Baragwanath Hospital PPP revitalisation project in accordance with the National Treasury PPP Manual;
We acted as legal/transaction advisors on a PPP transaction relating to a tourism development on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast;
We acted as the Community’s legal advisor and facilitator of the proposed co-management of the Makuya Nature Reserve by the Community and the Limpopo Department of Economic Development, Environment and Tourism;
We formed part of a team of legal advisors to advise on the National Treasury’s PPP Toolkit for Tourism project. This entailed drafting template requests for qualifications, requests for proposals and template public private partnership agreements;
Representing a multinational telecommunications company in negotiations and contracting regarding the construction and maintenance of fibre optic networks in various African countries; and
Represented a multinational telecommunications company in its negotiations and contracting regarding the establishment of a data centre and point of presence in a West African country.
