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Takudzwa Matondo
Associate Corporate & Finance
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Takudzwa is an associate in the Infrastructure, Energy, Resources, and Projects team at Hogan Lovells, Paris. She routinely represents sponsors, high profile banks and other financial institutions including DFIs and ECAs on cross-border project finance transactions across Anglophone and Francophone Africa and Latin America. Takudzwa has experience working in Johannesburg, London and Paris and also has experience advising on a variety of debt finance transactions.
Presently, Takudzwa works closely with her team in Paris, London and Washington and is active on emerging market transactions on the African continent, with a strong focus on deals in Africa.
Representative experience
DFC, IFC, and AfDB on financing the construction and operation of a vaccine manufacturing plant in Dakar developed by Institute Pasteur and the Government of Senegal.
IFC and Proparco on the financing of a large mixed-use real estate development in Kigali, Rwanda.
DFC in a US$100m financing to the Africell Group for the expansion of its mobile telecom and mobile money network operations in Angola, the DRC, Sierra Leone, Uganda, and The Gambia.
Afreximbank, EAIF, Absa Bank, RMB, Nedbank and Standard Bank on financing the US$296 million expansion, upgrading, modernizing and improvement of the Zimbabwe Beitbridge Border Post. *
Standard Bank and Stanbic Bank Kenya on financing the development of an additional power plant to be designed, constructed, owned and operated in Kenya. *
The sponsors on financing three renewable energy projects on the Risk Mitigation Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme designed by South Africa’s Department of Energy and Mineral Resources.
Gemcorp Capital LLP on a financing a graphite mine in South-eastern Tanzania on the Mozambican belt. *
Standard Bank on the limited recourse debt financing of a glass ZAR3.023 billion manufacturing plant*
Arcus Infrastructure Partners in a £170 million acquisition of Workdry International Limited. *
*Matter handled prior to joining Hogan Lovells.
Credentials
Education
- University of the Witwatersrand
Bar admissions and qualifications
- South Africa
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15 May 2025