11 December 2019

LEX Africa welcomes Rwandan member firm to the Alliance!

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It gives us great pleasure to announce that Rwandan firm AIMS Capital Associates have joined the Alliance!

Counsel Alloys Mutabingwa is the Founder and Chairperson of Aims Capital Associates. He is Former Deputy Secretary General of the East African Community (EAC-2009-2011) in-charge of economic planning, financial sector integration, infrastructure development, investment, promotion and private sector development, among others.  He is chairing a National Task Force for the establishment of a Rwanda Branch of the London Chartered Institute of Arbitrators-CIArb (Fellow of CIArb).

Alloys said: “Our firm is proud to become a member of this alliance. Working through LEX Africa shall enable us to scale up and re-organize initiatives positioning LEX Africa as the sole reference for all legal services that anchor the in-flow of capital from the global market into Africa. We will work together to add to other common business values of the alliance.”

Chairperson of LEX Africa, Pieter Steyn says “We are delighted by this development and look forward to working with AIMS Capital to assist LEX Africa clients in Rwanda.”

LEX Africa now has members in 25 African countries and remains the first and largest African Legal Alliance with an established track record of advising and assisting clients in Africa since 1993.

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