Sierra Leone continues to beckon a flurry of foreign direct investment (FDI) and despite the advent of COVID-19, there has been some uptake in the requests for advice on Mergers and Acquisitions in Sierra Leone quite recently. If the current trends are anything to go by, this is likely to ramp up quite considerably. Borrowing from the words of Gregg Lemakau of Goldman Sachs which appears to be spot on with regards current Mergers and Acquisitions trends generally, ‘I think the biggest driver of the recovery in mergers and acquisitions transactions is the return of the strategic acquiror. It is really an indication that companies are feeling much better about the outlook1’ and this is so as news about the sooner arrival miracle vaccine amidst the advantages of masking up, social distancing et all continue to be rammed into the eardrums of mankind in the meanwhile.
