A Nigerian commercial law firm, EandC Legal, has advised agribusiness multinational JR Farms Group on a landmark $60 million public-private partnership (PPP) concession agreement with the Government of Liberia.
The historic 20-year bilateral pact was executed through the Liberian Ministry of Agriculture in Monrovia on Monday, 8 June 2026, marking a significant cross-border expansion for Nigerian private capital within the West African agricultural market.
The strategic investment framework was formalised by Liberia’s Minister of Agriculture, Dr J. Alexander Nuetah, and the Founder and Group Chief Executive Officer of JR Farms Group, Mr Olawale Rotimi Oyeyemi.
Acting as the lead transaction counsel, EandC Legal structured the operational, commercial, and regulatory blueprints underpinning the long-term concession. The firm’s comprehensive advisory brief encompassed detailed bilateral negotiations regarding investment protection guarantees, regional compliance mechanisms, asset risk allocation, and long-term operational infrastructure design.
The agricultural initiative is specifically engineered to revitalise Liberia’s historic coffee heritage, with a primary focus on scaling up the production of its indigenous Liberica coffee variety alongside Arabica and Robusta crops.
Over its 20-year tenure, the project will fund the structural development of more than 250,000 hectares of coffee plantations across key producing hubs, including Nimba, Lofa, and Bong counties.
The commercial roadmap outlines the nursery installation and field planting of approximately 200 million new coffee trees to position the country for sustained global export competitiveness.
The socio-economic projections of the agreement indicate massive structural benefits for local agrarian communities, with the venture expected to empower more than 200,000 farmers and create at least 300,000 direct and indirect jobs across the regional value chain.
Commenting on the transaction, the Founder and Lead Partner of EandC Legal, Mr Omoruyi “Uyilaw” Edoigiawerie, highlighted that the landmark deal reflects the evolving capability of Nigerian legal consultancies in directing complex, large-scale cross-border investments.
He added that the execution aligns seamlessly with the Liberian government’s Economic Diplomacy initiative and National Agriculture Development Plan (NADP) to diversify national export revenues.
Source: Punch
