Fiona Magona, a partner at MMAKS Advocates, will be among 12 speakers that will take part in a regional Mergers & Acquisition webinar.
This webinar, which takes place on May 26, 2021, from 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM, is organized by The Legal 500 and Africa Legal Network (ALN).
ALN is an alliance of leading corporate law firms currently in 15 key African jurisdictions, including the continent’s gateway economies, with OHADA expertise and an established network of Best Friends firms in the continent which allows the alliance to represent clients in every African country. ALN have a presence in Francophone, Anglophone, Lusophone and Arabic-speaking Africa, which includes Algeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. The firms are recognised as leading firms in their markets, and many have advised on ground-breaking, first-of-a-kind deals. ALN also has a regional office in Dubai, UAE.
The upcoming webinar is designed to provide GCs and investors with an insight into emerging trends in regional M&A deals, the current environment in East Africa, as well as discuss the changing approach of private equity and venture capital firms in 2021.
The session will also discuss the role technology is playing in M&A and will provide industry analysis for the education, telecoms, healthcare and financial sectors.
Speakers’ line up
Other speakers at the event, include:
- Karim S. Anjarwalla – Managing Partner, ALN Kenya | Anjarwalla & Khanna
- Roddy McKean – Director, ALN Kenya | Anjarwalla & Khanna
- Christopher Mitchell – Managing Director & Partner, Boston Consulting Group
- Dominic Rebelo – Partner, ALN Kenya | Anjarwalla & Khanna
- Anne Kiunuhe – Partner, ALN Kenya | Anjarwalla & Khanna
- Wangui Kaniaru – Partner, ALN Kenya | Anjarwalla & Khanna
- Rosa Nduati-Mutero – Partner, ALN Kenya | Anjarwalla & Khanna
- Shemane Amin – Partner, ALN Tanzania | A&K Tanzania
- Deborah Haddis – Associate, ALN Ethiopia | Mesfin Tafesse & Associates
About Fiona Magona
Irene Mwoyogwona: Beyond the Numbers – How Pride Bank's Award-Winning CFO Combines Profitability and Social ImpactFiona is a Partner in the MMAKS Corporate team with over 15 years’ experience in multi-jurisdictional commercial transactions cutting across corporate M&A, Private Equity, Energy, Mining and Natural Resources, Projects & Infrastructure, and general corporate commercial, regulatory and investment advisory.
She is consistently ranked by IFLR1000 as a highly regarded lawyer, and described by Chambers and Partners as highly efficient, effective and customer-oriented. She provides legal and strategic commercial advice on cutting edge transactional work across sectors like telecom, broadcasting, insurance, education, banking, manufacturing, gaming, mining and energy.
She routinely handles legal due diligences, advises on corporate transactional structuring, negotiates local and cross border transactional agreements, commercial operational agreements. She has an impressive knowledge of the local regulatory framework and is commended for her advice on compliance issues, licensing regimes, and issues affecting local and foreign investors. Some of her clients include SN Power, Africa Rivers Fund, SN54
Fiona holds an LLM in commercial law from the University of Birmingham (United Kingdom), Diploma in Legal Practice (Bar Course), Law Development Centre, Kampala, and LL.B (Hons.), Makerere University, Uganda.
She has previously worked with a top tier law firm in Johannesburg South Africa, has served placements at a former FTSE 100 mining company in Johannesburg, and also with Slaughter and May, a magic circle law firm in London.
She is an advocate of the High Court of Uganda, a member of the Uganda Law Society and the East African Law Society.
