Financial Services
Lighthouse has extensive experience supporting banks, insurers, investment institutions and other financial services organisations on complex commercial, procurement, technology and transformation initiatives.
Our team combines legal, commercial and operational expertise to help clients manage risk while achieving their strategic objectives.
We regularly advise clients on:
Technology procurement and transformation programmes.
Outsourcing and managed services arrangements.
Procurement and supplier governance.
Contract remediation and large-scale contract review programmes.
Mergers, acquisitions and restructuring projects.
Software licensing and audit programmes.
Fintech and digital innovation initiatives.
Commercial disputes and risk management.
Beyond commercial contracting support, we help financial institutions improve the efficiency of their legal and procurement functions through legal operations initiatives, automated intake and workflow processes, contract playbooks, regulatory remediation programmes and managed legal services models that integrate seamlessly with internal teams.
Our experience includes advising on multi-billion Rand outsourcing transactions, major technology transformation programmes, contract digitisation initiatives, software audit projects and large-scale contract transfer programmes arising from corporate transactions.
Representative Experience
Large-Scale Facilities Management Outsourcing
Advising a major African financial institution on a facilities management procurement and outsourcing transaction valued in excess of R5 billion.
Technology Vendor Transformation Project
Supporting a financial institution through a major supplier transformation and procurement programme following an international divestment.
Major Bank Contract Digitisation and Repository Transformation
Reviewing and extracting key data from more than 2,000 contracts to support migration into a contract management platform and improve governance.