Boubacar Diakité

Practice Areas

Corporate

M&A

Tax

Publications

PUBLICATIONS

Africa Corporate Guide, 2023, CDH

Oil & Gas, Law & practice, Senegal, 2023

Banking & Finance, Chambers Global Practice Guide, 2019

M&A Under OHADA Law, 2017

The Impact of Bilateral Investment Treaties on Socio-Economic Rights, 2015

Country Guides: Securities and Banking Senegal, Thomson Reuters, 2013

2013-2014 Edition of the World Justice Project Rule of Law Index 2013

Women, Business and the Law 2012, participation as legal expert for the World Bank; http://wbl.worldbank.org/contributors

Women, Business and the Law, 2011, participation as legal expert for the World Bank. http://wbl.worldbank.org/contributors

Country guides. Securities and Banking Senegal, Thomson Reuters, 2011

Personal

Boubacar Diakité is a senior associate at Geni & Kebe and heads the corporate practice. He is qualified to practice in the 17 OHADA member states due to their unified business laws (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Comoros, Cote d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Republic of Congo, Senegal and Togo).

He has been seconded to major law firms in London including Norton Rose Fulbright for the International Lawyer for Africa (ILFA) program and at Slaughter & May’s EXPLORE program in London as well and lastly at the DLA London and Paris Offices. Boubacar also lived in South Africa and Mauritius for a year whilst studying for his Master’s degree.

He regularly advises on cross-border transactions in these jurisdictions.

Clients

Bechtel

SF CApital

Cairn Energy

FAR

Conocco Phillips

Woodside

Caterpillar

Orascom

Work Highlights

EXPERIENCE

◼ Advising Planet One with regard to a PPP project for a construction of traning centers in Senegal

◼ Advising SF Capital for the construction of Hospitals in Senegal

◼ Advising Bechtel for the construction of the Dakar – St Louis toll road

◼ Advising Cairn Energy with joint venture partners FAR, Conoco Philips andlater Woodside on Senegal’s firt off-shore oil discovery.

◼ Representing Indian conglomerate Jindal Power in a USD 900 million, 350 MW power plant deal with the state electricity company Senelec – the largest energy deal ever in Senegal.

◼ Advising American Capital, the lenders in a wind farm operation in Taiba Ndiaye, Senegal.

◼ Advising Caterpillar on the Engineering, Procurement and Construction Contract in relation to a Public-Private-Partnership to build a 130 MW power plant in Senegal.

◼ Advising a multinational beverage company on an assets and lands acquisition with a Senegalese company.

◼ A multinational incorporated in Luxembourg on an assets acquisition with a Senegalese company.

◼ Advising a multinational incorporated in Israel on a cross-border acquisition involving its branches in Senegal, Guinea and Burkina Faso.

◼ Advising the Government of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania in the revision of Mauritania's Commercial Law with funding from the International Development Association. The main objective of the project was to provide a modern commercial law adapted to standard requirements for investment and doing business.

◼ An Indian multinational on a build-operate-transfer (BOT) contract with SENELEC, the Senegalese State energy company. Through the agreement the company will build develop, finance, insure, own, operate and maintain a power station of 300 MW coal-connected to the Senelec Grid.

◼ Advising on a cross-border loan transaction in Ghana and Senegal.

◼ Due diligence on behalf of an International Islamic bank in the context of purchase proceedings of shares between the client and a Senegalese bank.

Languages Spoken

French

English

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Senegal

Ohada region