Perkins Coie’s Africa practice attorneys regularly assist U.S., EU, African and other multinational clients. Our experience includes internal investigations, compliance and import/export counseling, corporate, intellectual property and other counseling involving the industries driving the economies of Africa: oil & gas, mining, retail, banking, transportation utilities and infrastructure.

With international roots that began with our incorporation of The Boeing Company in 1916, we have partnered with domestic and international clients to pioneer international markets and projects in Africa and elsewhere. Most recently, we were tapped to serve as the monitor/advisor to an Africa-based company seeking World Bank Group reinstatement. In addition, our attorneys authored The Darfur Trial Skills Manual (American Bar Association). Recent matters include client counsel in these countries:

Our long-standing ties to the African continent, generally, and to business leaders and local counsel, specifically, provide us with the contacts necessary to help our clients overcome obstacles as well as profit from opportunities uniquely available to people and enterprises active in this thriving part of the world.