MDY Legal International Development

MDY Legal is a specialist UK law firm with over 30 years’ experience advising governments, development finance institutions, international organisations, investors and businesses on the legal, commercial and governance arrangements that underpin infrastructure and development programmes. Our work spans development finance, sovereign guarantees, donor funding, blended and catalytic finance, investment structures, procurement, contracting, regulatory risk, corporate governance and accountability. We have advised institutions including the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, British International Investment, the World Bank, FSD Africa and the Private Infrastructure Development Group, and have extensive experience translating funder requirements into practical arrangements that work across different jurisdictions and institutional settings.

We work in partnership with public bodies, funders, businesses and multidisciplinary teams to help move projects from ambition to implementation. This includes structuring funding and investment arrangements, strengthening governance and decision-making, developing procurement and contractual frameworks, allocating legal and delivery risk, and embedding climate, sustainability, inclusion and responsible-business requirements. Our focus is on solutions that are legally robust and proportionate, but also practical enough to support efficient delivery.