03 PRACTICE AREA
DPI-Led & Technology Investments
Where capital meets infrastructure.
OVERVIEW
A new class of investment is emerging in Africa: capital deployed into and around Digital Public Infrastructure — the payment rails, identity layers, data exchanges, and the ecosystems that build on them. These investments carry unique legal complexity: public-private boundaries, sovereignty questions, regulatory dependencies, and safeguard obligations that conventional deal lawyers rarely see.
LexInventum bridges that gap. We combine transactional capability with genuine DPI domain expertise — because we helped design the infrastructure these investments depend on.
WHAT WE DO
For Investors & Funds
Experience: legal strategist to the Labari Fund — Nigeria’s first Creative Economy Fund; ongoing legal support to VCs and startup ecosystems
Fund formation and structuring for technology and DPI-focused vehicles
Technology and regulatory due diligence on DPI-adjacent targets
Investment structuring where revenue depends on public infrastructure access
Blended finance and development capital structures
For Governments & DFIs
Structuring sovereign and quasi-sovereign investment vehicles for digital infrastructure
PPP frameworks for DPI build-out and operation
Concession, licensing, and revenue-share models for national platforms
For Companies Raising & Deploying
Experience: supported CBN & SEC compliance for startups and platforms
Venture financing rounds — term sheets to close
Strategic investments, joint ventures, and consortium structures
Regulatory approvals: CBN, SEC, sector regulators