The Dealmakers: Meet the Dentons Uganda Legal Team Behind Ecobank’s €230m Syndicated Loan to Government of Uganda   Dentons assembled a team of experienced advisers led by David Mpanga to quarterback Ecobank’s €230m sovereign facility, engineering structure, documentation, and conditions precedent across borders. The deal channels long-term capital into classrooms, clinics, roads, power, and safe water, aligning with Uganda’s transformation agenda and proving the team’s pace, precision, and multi-jurisdictional execution and scale.

When three leading African and international institutions joined forces to back Uganda’s infrastructure pipeline, the mandate demanded technical precision and rapid, cross-border execution. Dentons, under the leadership of David Mpanga, assembled a multidisciplinary team comprising experts in banking and finance, energy, and corporate to steer the transaction from structuring and documentation through conditions precedent and disbursement mechanics. The transaction, involving Ecobank Transnational Incorporated, Development Bank of Southern Africa, and Rand Merchant Bank, was announced as having been completed, with the facility’s purpose being squarely developmental. The money will be channelled in long-term capital into classrooms and clinics, strengthening transport corridors,…