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SUMMARY:Plenary session - Doing business in Africa: legal realities behin
 d the headlines
DESCRIPTION:Lawyer-led discussion on the actual legal complexities of doi
 ng business across African regions — East\, West\, Southern and francoph
 one Africa. Built as a dynamic\, regional roundtable with structured seg
 ments\, this session will dig into the granular legal issues that make-o
 r-break deals on the continent.\n\n\n\nCore topics of discussion:\n\n\n	
 Regulatory volatility: how do frequent legislative changes (eg\, FX cont
 rols\, tax law shifts\, local content rules) impact deal certainty?\n	Li
 censing and permitting: the hidden timelines\, informal barriers and cre
 ative workarounds lawyers must manage\n	Enforcement and remedies: contra
 ct enforcement challenges\, judicial bottlenecks and viable alternatives
  (eg\, arbitration\, administrative remedies)\n	Sector spotlights: legal
  quirks in key sectors such as energy\, tech\, infrastructure and agricu
 lture – what's changing\, what’s stalling\n	Regional fragmentation vs ha
 rmonisation: how lawyers are navigating divergent compliance expectation
 s despite AfCFTA\n	Navigatinggovernment and political exposure: how lawy
 ers mitigate corruption risks and political instability without breachin
 g ethical or legal lines\n\n\nFormat:\n\n\n	Each panellist represents a 
 region and brings one to two real legal ‘deal breakers’ or ‘creative win
 s’ they’ve navigated.\n	Each segment ends with one to two practical inve
 stment takeaways for businesses/investors attending.\n	Final 20 minutes 
 is open floor: attendees (including investors\, corporates) ask legal-in
 -practice questions.\n\n
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