Dowell & Jones advises a major financial services group comprising a major commercial bank, a life insurance company, a general insurance company, an asset management company, a pension administration company, and an information technology company, among several other group companies (“the Group”) on the review of its existing Employee Share Option Plan (ESOP) and redesigning a new one. The assignment was executed through the Group’s mandated financial advisors.

The Group needed a new ESOP that would align the interests of management and staff with those of its shareholders; stimulate and sustain high Group performance; be attractive to and a catalyst for retention of high performing members of management and staff; and have a competitive edge over other ESOPs in the market. The role […]

Dowell & Jones advises a leading investment bank in raising K50 billion debt for its public sector client to be injected as equity in a project SPV.

The SPV was incorporated for the specific purpose of carrying out or procuring the carrying out of a privately financed project relating to the construction of a pipeline, pumping stations, water treatment plants, water reservoirs and other related infrastructure and installations between Salima and Lilongwe, abstracting water from Lake Malawi, pumping, treating and transmitting it […]