About us
Borderless Afro Legal Hub is an independent thought-leadership platform on the law of cross-border investment in Africa. We provide analytical insight on cross-border capital flows, foreign direct investment (FDI), corporate structuring, and regulatory governance across the continent. The Hub is built for the people putting capital and enterprise to work in Africa — the global African diaspora, institutional investors, and multi-jurisdictional entrepreneurs. We demystify complex and often fragmented legal landscapes so that investment into Africa can be secure, compliant, and high-impact. We sit at the intersection of international finance, cross-border corporate execution, and regional trade harmonisation under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) — bridging the gap between foreign capital and local execution. Knowing that a market is attractive is the easy part; knowing how to enter it lawfully, structure it efficiently, establish on the ground, and govern it credibly is where opportunities are won or lost. That is the gap the Hub is written to close.
Our Values
OUR MISSION
To demystify the law of cross-border investment in Africa — translating complex, fragmented, and fast-moving legal landscapes into clear, actionable analysis, so that investors, entrepreneurs, and the global diaspora can deploy capital, establish businesses, and relocate to the continent with confidence, security, and compliance.
OUR VISION
A borderless Africa in which capital, enterprise, and talent move across the continent's markets as freely as its ideas — where clear legal insight bridges the distance between foreign capital and local opportunity, and where the promise of continental integration is matched by the certainty investors need to believe in it.
About the Founder
Borderless Legal Hub is founded and edited by Ian Mwiti Mathenge, a corporate lawyer admitted to practice in New York and Kenya, working at the intersection of international capital markets and cross-border corporate execution. His experience spans debt and equity offerings, green and sustainable-finance instruments, corporate governance, and mergers and acquisitions.
He holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School — where he was named Dean's Scholar for his work on the rise of ESG in corporate law and governance — a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours), and a Master of Laws in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa (with Distinction). That combination of global capital markets and African human-rights and development is the perspective the Hub is written from.