ILFA

General information

ILFA’s mission is to build legal excellence in Africa by providing access to advanced legal training, networking opportunities and education for African lawyers and senior professionals engaged in the negotiation of complex transactions in Africa.

ILFA furthers its mission through its Flagship Programme; which has been described as “simple yet impactful”.

The Flagship Programme facilitates interchange opportunities for African lawyers to take part in a three-month secondment programme in law offices of international law firms and corporations based in London, Paris, and Dubai. Additionally, the programme provides an academic enrichment series that incorporates training modules on various topics relevant to the African legal sector. Finally, the ILFA lawyers undergo intense seminars at the prestigious Oxford and Cambridge Universities.

Placements offer an annual curriculum of the most relevant parts of the participating law firms' existing training programmes. These include the following practice areas: International arbitration, intellectual property, project finance, and sovereign debt. A wide variety of industries are covered from mining to construction, banking to oil & gas.

2015 will see the introduction of an Intra-Africa Secondment Programme. This programme will adopt the same model, as the existing secondment programme except the host locations will be in Africa. The pilot Intra-Africa secondment programme will be launched in Nigeria in 2015. Applications will be open to selected West African countries and run parallel to the Flagship Programme. Applications for the Intra-Africa Secondment Programme will open in September.