Trusted Advisors Since 2005
Africarta Advisory Group provides comprehensive legal, tax, business, QHSE, CDM, and global mobility advisory services — guiding corporates, investors, families, and institutions through the continent's most dynamic markets with integrity and precision.
Who We Are
A professional advisory firm offering tailored legal, tax, business, QHSE, CDM, and global mobility solutions — rooted in integrity, expertise, and a deep understanding of the African business landscape.
We work closely with our clients to understand their objectives and deliver practical, results-driven advice. From market entry to restructuring, from operational safety to regulatory compliance, and from cross-border expansion to the residency and citizenship planning that follows it, our integrated teams bring local insight and international standards to every engagement.
Our mission is to provide premium advisory services on the African continent, helping businesses operate and grow within its dynamic legal, regulatory, and commercial landscape.
We uphold the highest ethical and professional standards in every engagement, without exception.
A pan-African footprint with international networks, serving clients across 15 countries and beyond.
We start with your objectives — and shape pragmatic, commercially grounded advice around them.
Advice measured by outcomes: durable transactions, resolved disputes, and sustainable growth.
Our Services
Six practice charters — from law and tax to quality, health, safety, environment, operational risk, CDM advisory services, global mobility, and energy infrastructure — designed to address the full spectrum of business needs in Africa's dynamic and evolving markets.
Comprehensive counsel to navigate complex regulatory environments, optimise tax positions, and ensure full compliance across jurisdictions.
End-to-end business support that lets you focus on growth while we handle the administrative complexities.
Strategic guidance through growth, acquisition, turnaround, and organisational transformation — every step of the way.
Quality, health, safety, and environmental advisory — anchored by a dedicated CDM (Construction Design and Management) practice — that helps organisations deliver work safely, meet their regulatory obligations, and build operational excellence, across eight disciplines, from CDM advisory and management systems to audits, training, and technical assurance.
Business immigration and global mobility advisory for internationally mobile founders, families, and executives — converting a genuine operating business footprint into permanent residence, and permanent residence into a citizenship that transfers to the next generation. Delivered with Godmer Immigration Consultant across six disciplines, from Canadian entry strategy and corporate setup through to jurisdictional diversification and succession.
Commercial and technical advisory across the natural gas and energy infrastructure value chain — connecting producers, customers, infrastructure, contractors, and capital, and turning early-stage energy opportunities into structured commercial propositions and executable projects. Led on a pan-African basis across six disciplines, from gas commercialisation and offtake development through to local content, permits, and regulatory approvals.
Why Choose Us
When you partner with Africarta Group, you gain more than advisors — you gain trusted partners invested in your success.
Deep expertise across 15+ African markets with international connections.
Seasoned professionals with decades of combined experience.
Long-term relationships built on integrity and results.
A holistic approach combining legal, tax, business, QHSE, CDM, and global mobility advisory.
Our Team
Our diverse team of professionals brings together decades of experience, deep local knowledge, and a shared commitment to client success. Select a profile to read more.
Our Footprint
Regional leadership in four hubs, with mandates delivered across 15 countries and key cross-border corridors — including a Toronto–Lusaka corridor supporting our global mobility mandates.
Group headquarters — 96 11th Street, Parkmore, Sandton. Strategy, restructuring, and Southern Africa mandates.
Ghana practice — corporate, commercial, and governance advisory for West African markets.
West Africa counsel, the Africa tax desk, and the QHSE & CDM advisory practice — energy, infrastructure, and regulatory mandates.
East Africa practice — trade, investment, arbitration, and cross-border transactions.
Get in Touch
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Group CEO & Managing Partner
Zion Ekundayo Adeoye is a distinguished energy, infrastructure, finance, and taxation lawyer with over 17 years of international experience across Africa and beyond. As Group Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner of Africarta Advisory Group, he leads a multinational, multilingual team of more than 100 lawyers, tax professionals, and business advisors operating across nine African jurisdictions.
Before founding Africarta, Zion served as Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner of CLG (formerly Centurion Law Group), a publicly listed pan-African law firm. He previously acted as Lead Transaction Counsel and Group Legal Counsel to the Transnational Energy Ltd Group, overseeing landmark oil, gas, and power projects in Nigeria. His formative years were spent at the Tax Division of KPMG Nigeria, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), and the premier Lagos firms Olaniwun Ajayi LP and Templars, advising multinational clients on complex energy and infrastructure transactions.
A trusted adviser to governments and sovereign parties, Zion has helped shape energy policy across the continent — advising legislatures, regulators, and national bodies on landmark petroleum and fiscal reform. His expertise spans project and corporate finance, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, target-acquisition structuring, and international taxation.
Zion has led and continues to lead big-ticket, key-sector projects across the continent.
Zion continues to advise multinational companies and sovereign clients on high-value, key-sector infrastructure across Africa's established and frontier markets. A member of the Nigerian Bar Association and the Association of Independent Energy Negotiators, he is fluent in English, with business proficiency in Portuguese and French.
Senior Adviser
Lloyd Muposhi is a seasoned pan-African specialist in structured finance and commodity trading with over 25 years of expertise in capital advisory, institutional banking, and complex cross-border transactions. Across East, Central, and Southern Africa, he has served as a key adviser on sovereign finance programmes, infrastructure development, and structured trade credit facilities.
His institutional career spans some of the continent's leading banking and development finance institutions, including Standard Chartered, Citibank, FirstRand, and the Trade and Development Bank (TDB), where he held senior roles in trade finance and sovereign coverage. This background gives him a deep, practised understanding of how banks, DFIs, export credit agencies, and commodity traders assess, structure, and execute African transactions.
Lloyd is the Founder and Managing Director of ESC Finance (Evimera Supply Chain Finance (Pty) Ltd), a Sandton-headquartered pan-African structured finance, capital advisory, and commodity trading platform active across 18+ African markets. At ESC Finance, he directs the firm's strategic initiatives, commodity procurement, and transaction execution.
As Senior Adviser to Africarta Advisory Group, Lloyd strengthens the firm's structured finance and trade capability — bringing capital markets insight, transaction origination, and an extensive institutional network to the Group's cross-border mandates, and bridging Africarta's legal, tax, and regulatory advisory with practical capital and trade solutions.
Senior Advisor
Paul Senyomo is a distinguished finance and banking executive with over two decades of experience at the highest levels of advisory, audit, strategic planning, and institutional leadership across Africa. A former Chief Executive Officer of Mercantile Credit Bank Ltd, he has also held senior roles at PwC, DFCU Bank, Hima Cement, Bamburi Cement, and Edes & Associates.
He has earned a reputation as a trusted adviser to boards, shareholders, executive management, and financial institutions on matters of strategy, governance, risk, performance, and long-term value creation — combining executive authority, technical depth, and commercial judgment across banking, professional services, manufacturing, and cross-border advisory mandates.
His pan-African experience spans banking, infrastructure, manufacturing, health, aviation, and investment platforms, with assignments across Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Sudan, South Africa, Algeria, Switzerland, and France.
A Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA) and a member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Uganda, Paul brings a statesmanlike presence, deep institutional insight, and a steady strategic hand to the firm's leadership, clients, and partners.
Managing Partner — Ghana
Maryam Kamara is a corporate lawyer with more than 12 years of practice experience. She has garnered significant deal experience at a leading Ghanaian law firm and as Head of Legal & Company Secretary of a major oil marketing company, advising on commercial, employment, intellectual property, and company law matters.
Maryam also brings significant boardroom experience, having served as a director and board secretary. She has held executive leadership roles including Chief Operating Officer of SPACE Accra, and serves as a Board Member of Amantin & Kasei Community Bank.
At Africarta, Maryam leads the Ghana practice, bringing practical governance insight and rigorous legal execution to complex, cross-sector mandates.
Africa Tax Lead
Akindele is an experienced tax and advisory professional who began his career at KPMG Nigeria, working on audit, tax, and advisory engagements with a strong focus on the energy sector. He is the founding partner of Phillips Akindele & Co., advising clients across energy, financial services, and technology.
He leads Africarta's continent-wide tax practice and has previously coordinated the Africa Tax Desk at a leading advisory firm, supporting multi-jurisdictional tax structuring, compliance, transfer pricing, and dispute resolution.
With prior experience as a Chief Executive Officer, Akindele brings a pragmatic, results-driven approach to navigating complex African tax and regulatory environments.
Senior Partner, Energy Infrastructure
Damola Akinrinmade leads Africarta's energy infrastructure practice at a Group level, with pan-African responsibility for the firm's natural gas and energy infrastructure mandates. He is an energy infrastructure and natural gas specialist with over 15 years of experience across Nigeria's oil and gas industry, spanning business development, project development, EPC and fabrication, gas distribution, and downstream infrastructure.
His experience sits at the intersection of technical execution and commercial development, with a particular focus on connecting energy infrastructure, customers, projects, and commercial opportunity. His career spans several notable Nigerian energy companies, including Oando Gas & Power (now Axxela), Oando Marketing (now NNPC Retail), Aveon Offshore, Fradro Gas & Power, Ascot Offshore (formerly Willbros), and Novium Development Company — giving him practical experience along the full gas value chain, from hands-on PRMS maintenance and downstream infrastructure delivery to gas distribution network development, offshore fabrication, Nigerian Content, EPC, and commercial origination.
At Aveon Offshore, Damola led business development and local-content activities across major offshore fabrication opportunities including ExxonMobil Erha Phase 2, Total Egina, and SNEPCo Bonga Northwest. He was part of the bid team for the Total Egina SPS and OLT Buoy projects, with combined contract awards exceeding USD 200 million, developed the company's first Nigerian Content Plan, and led ASME U-stamp certification to enable local pressure-vessel production.
At Fradro Gas & Power, he supported development of the NGC-franchised Agbor–Asaba–Onitsha–Awka–Nnewi gas distribution corridor, working across market development, customer demand analysis, project economics, contracting, and regulatory coordination — including engagements to close the Gas Sales & Purchase Agreement and to secure Permit to Survey, Right of Way, and Oil & Gas Pipeline Licence approvals.
As Senior Partner, Energy Infrastructure, Damola anchors the Group's Energy Infrastructure Advisory charter, working alongside Africarta's legal, tax, commodities, and structured finance capability so that energy projects are commercially grounded as well as contractually and fiscally sound. He is also an active writer on Nigeria's natural gas and energy market.
Senior Partner — QHSE, CDM & Risk Management
David Adeoye is a highly accomplished QHSE and construction professional with over 15 years of experience leading major construction projects, manufacturing operations, safety transformation programmes, and operational risk management initiatives across Africa and international markets. He combines technical expertise in civil engineering, construction project management, CDM (Construction Design and Management) advisory, occupational health and safety, quality systems, and environmental management to help organisations improve operational performance, regulatory compliance, and project delivery.
He has held senior leadership positions with organisations including Rosetti Pivot Limited, G3 Systems Ltd, NEBOSH, Promasidor Nigeria, UAC Foods Limited, British American Tobacco, and Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company. He currently serves as a Construction Manager and NEBOSH Construction Subject Matter Expert and Tutor, providing strategic leadership and professional development services internationally.
David holds an MSc in Construction Project Management from the University of the West of England, a BSc in Civil Engineering from the University of Ibadan, and a Mini-MBA from Tekedia Institute. He is also NEBOSH-qualified to Diploma level and holds multiple internationally recognised certifications in health, safety, quality, environmental management, and auditing.
At Africarta, David leads the QHSE & CDM Advisory Services practice — .
Partner — Global Mobility & Business Immigration
Melissa Godmer is a Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant (RCIC No. 710568) and a member of the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants (CICC). She is the Principal of Godmer Immigration Consultant, a business immigration and global mobility practice serving wealth managers, family offices, and private advisors, with a head office in Toronto and a regional office in Lusaka, Zambia.
Her practice is built around business immigration rather than application processing. The Canadian mandate she designs converts a genuine operating business footprint into permanent residence, and permanent residence into a citizenship that passes to the next generation — structured to sit alongside the wealth, tax, and succession advice a family already has in place rather than compete with it.
Across nine years of practice she has guided more than 100 entrepreneurs, facilitated over $25M in investments, and maintains a 98% approval rate. Every file is led personally and handled on a named-file basis, with confidential feasibility assessments delivered as a written strategic brief before any commitment, in English or French.
At Africarta, Melissa is the point person for the Global Mobility practice — , or visit godmerimmigrationconsultant.com ↗.
Managing Partner — East Africa
Brenda Wagura leads the firm's regional strategy, client engagements, and delivery of integrated legal and advisory services across East Africa and key cross-border corridors. Her expertise spans corporate and commercial law, international trade and investment, energy and infrastructure projects, mergers and acquisitions, real estate, and international dispute resolution.
Her practice is particularly distinguished in international commercial arbitration and investor-state dispute resolution, with extensive work under ICSID, UNCITRAL, and the New York Convention — positioning her as a trusted advisor to corporates, investors, and institutions across emerging and developed markets.
Brenda is an active member of the Association of International Energy Negotiators (AIEN), where she serves as Africa Regional Representative for the Women Negotiators Group and contributes to the AIEN Carbon Capture and Storage Taskforce.
She holds an LL.M in International Trade and Investment Law (University of Pretoria), an LL.B (Catholic University of Eastern Africa), and is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb) and a Certified Professional Mediator, with advanced training in Trusts and Taxation (UCT) and Real Estate Economics and Development (University of Nairobi).
Senior Consultant — Tanzania
Methuselah Paschal Mahona is a trade finance consultant and regulatory specialist with experience spanning Tanzanian government regulatory authorities and international financial services. He advises businesses, importers, and investors on navigating complex cross-border transactions and accessing secure funding mechanisms.
His trade finance practice covers the facilitation of documentary letters of credit, standby letters of credit, bank guarantees, and other credit enhancement instruments, alongside supplier credit and invoice financing for regional importers and offshore banking onboarding for corporate and private clients.
Methuselah previously served as a Land Officer with Tanzania's Ministry of Lands, Housing and Human Settlements Development, where he oversaw land administration, tenure security, and regulatory compliance for real estate and development projects, and led mediation in land disputes. Earlier, as a Registration Officer at the Business Registrations and Licensing Agency (BRELA), he managed corporate registrations, licensing, and intellectual property filings, and contributed to the drafting of guidelines under the Companies (Beneficial Ownership) Regulations, strengthening corporate transparency and anti-money laundering alignment.
He holds an LL.M in International Trade and Investment Law in Africa (University of Pretoria) and an LL.B from Mzumbe University, bringing depth in regulatory compliance, corporate governance, contract drafting, and secured transactions across the East African market.
Managing Counsel — West Africa
Oluwadamilola Laniyan (Damilola) is a seasoned legal strategist and corporate governance professional with over 14 years' experience advising organisations across the energy, infrastructure, financial services, and regulatory sectors. His practice is distinguished by his ability to integrate legal analysis with data-driven business intelligence and financial insight.
He began his career in corporate and company secretarial practice before moving into strategic and operational roles within the power sector, where he played a key role in the corporatisation and restructuring of a legacy government utility — supporting large-scale transformation programmes and the structuring of bids for international development finance.
His experience spans contract management and regulatory compliance, including complex commercial agreements, procurement contracts, power purchase arrangements, and embedded generation projects, as well as regulatory advisory for fintech and payment service providers.
Damilola holds an LL.B from the University of Ibadan and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 2012, with professional certifications in Commercial Banking and Credit Analysis, Project Management, and Agile methodologies.
Africa ESG Lead
Dr. Tejiri Digun-Aweto is an experienced ESG and sustainability professional with a PhD and over thirty publications focused on sustainability, conservation, tourism, and community impact across Africa. His work combines academic research with practical, impact-driven implementation.
As Africa ESG Lead, he leads ESG strategy development for energy and infrastructure projects, strengthening materiality analysis, stakeholder engagement, and evidence-based programme design to support long-term value creation.
His experience includes work on World Bank–funded initiatives, collaboration with the UK Department for International Development (DFID), and academic research affiliations with University College London (UCL) and North-West University, South Africa.
Head of Commodities
Dylan Bayer leads Africarta's commodities practice from Johannesburg, where he is responsible for the Group's physical trade and commodity mandates across its African markets.
His background spans portfolio management, risk management, banking, and investments, developed at MCCG S.A., where his work covered operations and procedures and the coordination of activity with international affiliates. That combination of operational discipline and risk-aware commercial judgement shapes how he structures and administers commodity transactions.
As Head of Commodities, Dylan works alongside the Group's structured finance and trade advisory capability, connecting commodity origination and offtake to the capital, legal, tax, and regulatory advice Africarta provides — so that a transaction is sound commercially as well as contractually.
He studied at the Academic Institute of Excellence (AIE) and is based in the Johannesburg metropolitan area.
Business Development Lead
Soji Koledade is a results-oriented business development executive with over a decade of experience driving strategic growth, commercial partnerships, and market expansion across Sub-Saharan Africa. He leads the identification and execution of value-creating initiatives that strengthen the Group's footprint across its priority markets.
Over his career, Soji has worked closely with stakeholders across private and public sectors — spanning regional consultancies, multinational firms, and entrepreneurial ventures — combining market intelligence with practical strategy implementation to enhance competitive positioning.
Based in Johannesburg, he continues to advise businesses on strategy execution, market entry considerations, and performance optimisation, drawing on an extensive network and multi-jurisdictional exposure.
Analyst — Southern Africa
Dedrick Domingos João is a network engineer and web developer with a degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering and international practical experience across network engineering, web development, and blockchain. He has worked with technology companies in India, delivering network projects with Cisco Packet Tracer and building applications in Angular.
His technical work spans the design and simulation of network topologies, device configuration via CLI, and the implementation of routing protocols and security configurations, alongside front-end development in Angular, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS. He has also served as a blockchain trainer and team leader, and completed an internship with the Instituto Nacional das Comunicações de Moçambique.
As an Analyst for Southern Africa, Dedrick brings a problem-solving mindset, multidisciplinary collaboration, and clear communication to the firm's mandates. He is fluent in Portuguese and English.
Analyst — Southern Africa
Leonardo Jr is a software developer with academic training in Computer Applications and hands-on experience in IT systems, application development, and database modeling. He is skilled in Python, JavaScript, and HTML, and works with Power BI and Excel to build data-driven reporting and visualisation.
His experience includes managing financial records and reporting as a financial secretary, and an IT internship in which he analysed payroll systems, contributed to the development of a salary management application, and supported MERISE system modeling and database design.
As an Analyst for Southern Africa, Leonardo combines technical curiosity with adaptability, teamwork, and a commitment to continuous learning. He is a native Portuguese speaker and fluent in English.
Analyst — Southern Africa
Tevin Arcadio is a Mechanical Engineering student in his final years at the Higher Institute of Transport and Communications in Maputo, where he is developing a strong foundation in analytical thinking, technical problem-solving, and engineering fundamentals.
He is recognised for strong communication skills, integrity, flexibility, and a positive, self-motivated attitude. A federated basketball athlete and baseball player who has represented Mozambique internationally, he brings discipline, teamwork, and a results-oriented outlook to his work.
As an Analyst for Southern Africa, Tevin supports the firm's mandates with rigour and adaptability. He is fluent in English and Portuguese.
Charter I — Full Capabilities
Comprehensive counsel to navigate complex regulatory environments, optimise tax positions, and ensure full compliance across jurisdictions.
Charter II — Full Capabilities
End-to-end business support that lets you focus on growth while we handle the administrative complexities.
Charter III — Full Capabilities
Strategic guidance through growth, acquisition, turnaround, and organisational transformation — every step of the way.
Charter IV — Full Capabilities
An integrated quality, health, safety, and environmental practice — anchored by a dedicated CDM (Construction Design and Management) advisory capability, one of the most sought-after assurance services on major African projects — covering management systems, audits, training, and operational risk, led by , Senior Partner.
Charter V — Full Capabilities
A business immigration and global mobility practice for internationally mobile founders, families, and executives — anchored by Canadian business immigration, where the family's status is earned through a real operating business rather than a fee paid into a government fund. Delivered with Godmer Immigration Consultant and led by , Partner, Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant (RCIC No. 710568).
Global mobility mandates are delivered in collaboration with Godmer Immigration Consultant, which provides the regulated immigration advice and business advisory services. Africarta and the client's existing tax, legal, and investment advisors retain their own mandates. Learn more at godmerimmigrationconsultant.com ↗.
Charter VI — Full Capabilities
A commercial and technical advisory practice spanning the natural gas and energy infrastructure value chain — anchored by natural gas commercialisation and offtake development, on the principle that a gas project is proven by real customers, profiled demand, and contracted volumes rather than by installed capacity alone. Led by , Senior Partner, Energy Infrastructure, with 15+ years across Nigeria's oil and gas industry spanning engineering, EPC and fabrication, project development, and commercial origination.
Energy infrastructure mandates draw on the Group's wider capability — the law and tax charter for concessions, licences, and fiscal structuring, and the commodities and structured finance capability for offtake and funding — so a project is commercially sound as well as contractually and fiscally defensible.
Last Updated: 14 January 2026
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