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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
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.
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Government of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania
Government of Burkina Faso
SF CAPITAL
BECHTEL
CAIRN ENERGY
CONOCO PHILIPS
WOODSIDE
JINDAL POWER
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.
EXPERIENCE
◼ 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.
◼ 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.
Senegal and the 16 other countries members of the OHADA
He is qualified to practice in the 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).
University of Pretoria
LLM Master of Laws
2015
National School of Economy
Management courses
2008
University of Bourguiba
LLM Master of Law in International Business Law
2007
Provided by Chambers
Senior associate Boubacar Diakité heads the firm's corporate team and draws upon his experience to represent multinational companies, banks and governments in commercial and financial mandates. He has further expertise in assisting with energy and infrastructure projects.
Provided by Chambers
Boubacar understands the reality and dynamics of transactions and responds diligently to those realities.
Boubacar understands the reality and dynamics of transactions and responds diligently to those realities.
