Monnatt, Cabinet d'Avocats

Chairman: Tiburce M. MONNOU

Senior Legal Adviser: Philippe ATTOH

Junior Associates : Akintola OGOUNDE, Enam ASSOGBA, Marie-Laure ZAMBLE

Number of partners: 04

Number of jurists: 05

Languages: French/English

Firm Overview:

Monnatt Law Firm aims to provide the business community with proven legal expertise developed over time. Its lawyers are supported by qualified legal advisers and support staff who combine their expertise to provide clients with know-how tailored to their needs. Monnatt aims to contribute alongside business people whose investments and innovative ideas are designed to have a lasting impact on the economic life of the African continent.

Conscious of the need to support all initiatives with legal engineering, Monnatt ensures that the professional quality of its team is improved day after day. Monnatt works alongside its clients in both legal advice and litigation. Monnatt's multidisciplinary team, fully versed in OHADA law, is an asset in overcoming all kinds of challenges.

Monnatt is able to partner with any other team in other parts of the world that has formed to meet the needs of clients in West Africa. Our team listens to our clients and provides effective collaboration.

Monnatt Law Firm offers both legal and judicial services to its clients. In terms of legal services, the firm provides assistance to African and international investors in the areas of energy, infrastructure, telecommunications, public-private partnerships, labour law, corporate law, bankruptcy law, personal data protection, public procurement law, securities law, including the establishment of guarantees and securities. The firm also assists its clients in the prevention and settlement of corporate difficulties, maritime and land transport, insurance, banking and exchange control. Finally, the firm offers expertise in legal audits.

In terms of litigation, the firm is able to provide quality assistance to its clients in all of the above-mentioned legal matters and in particular in the area of debt collection. The firm assists several banks in the recovery of their debts. It also offers expertise in arbitration.

Clients:

Banque Ouest Africaine de Développement (BOAD)

ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) ORAGROUP S.A

United States Development Finance Corporation (DFC)

Banque Internationale pour l'Afrique au Togo (BIA-TOGO) S.A

BanqueAtlantique Togo (BAT) S.A

ECOBANK TOGO S.A

ECOBANK BENIN S.A

ORABANK-Togo S.A

Banque Togolaise pour le Commerce et l'Industrie (BTCI)

CORIS BANK INTERNATIONAL Togo S.A

SUNU Bank Togo S.A

TOTAL-TOGO S.A

UNIPHART S.A

ePROCESS INTERNATIONAL S.A

ACCOR S.A

ACCOR AFRIQUE SAS

Société Togolaise d'Investissement et d'Exploitation Hôtelière (STIEH)

WABCO COTIA S.A

HOTEL ACCUEIL LEBENIN S.A

AFRIK BTP & EQUIPEMENT OVERSEAS GROUP (AFRIKBAT SA)

ATIAADERSON GROUP HOLDING COMPANY S.A

Partner law firms:

Allen &Overy

Herbert Smith

Hogan Lovells

DLA Piper

Clyde & Co

Betto- Perben-Pradel-Filhol

Monnatt acts in all member states of the OHADA area. During the past year, Monnatt has won several cases before the courts and tribunals. Out of seventy-one (71) of our cases for which decisions have been pronounced at the Court of First Instance of Lomé, we have won sixty-one (61) cases. We won twenty-eight (28) cases out of thirty-five (35) judgments pronounced at the Court of Appeal. The firm also won a case before the Common Arbitration Court on behalf of ACCOR AFRIQUE SAS, ACCOR SA and STIEH. During the year 2021, we handled ninety-four (94) new cases in both advisory and litigation.