A single gateway into Africa
A single gateway into Africa
For international clients, Africa is rarely a single transaction or jurisdiction. It is an operating environment defined by layered regulation, divergent legal systems, execution risk, and local complexity.
RCAF exists to provide a single, coherent point of entry into that environment.
Rather than assembling multiple advisers across jurisdictions, clients engage RCAF as the coordinating platform—bringing together advisory, forensic, and legal capability into a unified approach, calibrated to the realities of operating in Africa.
An integrated platform with designed independence
RCAF brings together financial, forensic, operational, governance, and strategic expertise within a single advisory architecture.
Legal services are not embedded within this platform. Instead, they are engaged where required through Richter Attorneys, a specialist law firm with deep experience in restructuring, insolvency, and cross-border matters.
RCAF and Richter Attorneys are separate entities. Each renders services under its own mandate, engagement terms, and professional standards. Clients may engage RCAF independently, Richter Attorneys independently, or both—depending on the scope and nature of the mandate.
This separation is intentional. It preserves independence and professional clarity, while allowing the two firms to work closely together where a matter requires integrated legal and advisory input. The structure allows legal, financial, and operational workstreams to proceed in parallel, aligned to a single execution strategy, without conflating professional roles or responsibilities.
Network as execution capability
RCAF's network is not a fixed panel or a directory of affiliations. It is a working framework that allows specialist expertise, institutional insight, and transactional resources to be deployed selectively—based on jurisdictional requirements, sector complexity, and execution risk.
Financial institutions
International banks and lenders, investment funds and credit providers, distressed debt specialists, development finance institutions, and asset-based lenders—mobilised to source capital and structure cross-border funding solutions for African mandates.
Professional networks
Restructuring and insolvency specialists, cross-border legal counsel, forensic and investigative professionals, valuation and transaction advisors, tax and regulatory specialists—deployed to coordinate expertise across multiple jurisdictions.
Regulatory & institutional access
Established relationships with central banks and financial regulators, corporate registrars and authorities, stock exchanges and market operators, insolvency and liquidation bodies, competition and trade authorities—providing institutional credibility where outcomes depend on regulatory engagement.
Sector specialists
On-demand access to experts across mining and natural resources, infrastructure and energy, financial services and fintech, manufacturing and industrials, real estate and construction—engaged based on mandate requirements rather than fixed panel constraints.
Strategic counterparties
Direct connections to private equity and institutional investors, strategic buyers and consolidators, turnaround and interim management specialists, special situations investors, family offices and UHNW investors—accelerating deal processes and improving execution certainty in complex situations.
International financial centres
Active relationships across London and European markets, New York and North American networks, Singapore and Hong Kong connections, Dubai and Middle East relationships, Sydney and Asia-Pacific expertise—leveraged to inform strategy and benchmark outcomes against global best practice.
Working together
This model allows RCAF and Richter Attorneys to operate together where appropriate—and independently where not—while providing clients with a disciplined, full-service gateway into Africa.