1st Floor, 16 Adelaide Street

New England

Freetown

Sorie & Bangura (“S&B”) is a full-fledged law firm. Our comprehensive and complementary capabilities combine to make S&B the clear choice as your legal Service Provider. This assertion is as a result of three factors; our approach, our team and our desire to produce results for our clients.

Sorie & Bangura (“S&B”) formed in 2011 is a dynamic law firm that is creative, attentive to client needs, forward thinking and results oriented. Offering a full range of services for its diverse clientele from its offices at 16 Adelaide Street in Freetown, the firm’s practice includes civil and criminal litigation, mergers and acquisitions, corporate law, preparing and negotiating various contracts and agreements, renewable energy, admiralty/shipping law, debt collections, banking, mining, petroleum law, trademarks, providing end-to-end support in land lease processes for the private sector especially in the provinces of Sierra Leone where private sector companies engage with local chiefs and indigenous land owning families, family law, succession law including obtaining letters of administration and probate, and advising on all aspects of employment and labour law including contracts of employment, termination, dismissals, benefits and redundancies.

S&B regularly provides regulatory and legal framework advisory services for various types of project-financed transactions, covering the full spectrum of work streams from structuring the transaction, legal due diligence, drafting and negotiating project documents, and managing and coordinating the closing process.

The firm’s broad client base ranges from local businesses to foreign corporate/international entities; clientele includes renewable energy companies, telecom companies, construction companies, equipment leasing companies, agricultural companies, hotels, banks, microfinance institutions, mining companies, development agencies and international institutions as well as INGOs and NGOs. In the course of its representation of its clients the firm deals with several government ministries and other governmental institutions and interacts with senior government officials.

Chambers and Partners, a leading directory of law firms after conducting research and due diligence on our firm states: “It is a good firm; they work well, they do commercial work, and they are experienced.” They further state: “The team has litigation experience and demonstrates notable activity in the energy sector.” S&B has a team that is very conversant with energy projects as well as project financing transactions. Our experience enables us to advise on all aspects of energy projects and project financing transactions. This includes legal structuring and financial agreements that innovate, as well as energy and infrastructure projects that are driven by or developed for other sectors such as telecom providers. We are quite familiar with the legal and regulatory framework applicable to a variety of projects.