Henrietta COLE

Barrister

Henrietta is a practising barrister and solicitor (corporate and commercial) at Basma and Macaulay, a Chambers-listed law practice based in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Highly experienced in project finance, she’s accomplished as a lead lawyer, mainly representing lenders in public partnership agreements, infrastructure, mining licence agreements and mergers and acquisitions. Now based mainly in London, she’s formerly represented international firms such as Herbert Smith Freehills, Norton Rose Fullbright, Hogan Lovells and Clifford Chance.

 Prior to joining Basma and Macaulay, Henrietta worked as a consultant for a number of international non-governmental organisations including UNHABITAT and World Bank, advising them on strategies aimed at enhancing the social and economic conditions of the urban poor and their integration into the formal economy. 

Henrietta is a keen runner. She completed the London Moonwalk and looks forward to Edinburgh’s Moonwalk in September. She enjoys African Art. Henrietta is married to Nick and says she’s ‘kept grounded by three grown-up children!’.