Lynda Amadagana

Practice Areas

Energy

Mining

Banking and Finance

Infrastructure

Corporate

Sport

Intellectual Property

Telecommunications

Career

Lynda is a lawyer admitted at the Paris and Cameroon Bars and is the Managing Partner of the Firm Amadagana & Partners.

She advises on corporate transactions, projects and financing in the Energy, Mining and Infrastructure sectors in Africa with a specific focus on the OHADA zone.

Lynda is the former General Counsel and current advisor of Cameroon Power Holdings, an investing affiliate of Actis Fund in Cameroon and the majority shareholder of ENEO Cameroon. She has previously worked at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, Clifford Chance, Simmons & Simmons and Reed Smith Paris offices. She has also worked as a lawyer at EDF Group.

Lynda is a former lecturer at Cergy Pontoise University in France. She regularly conducts training sessions for lawyers in Cameroon.

Lynda is the Secretary General of the Cameroon Mining Association, the chamber of mining operators in Cameroon.

Professional Memberships

Cameroon Bar

Paris Bar

Personal

Lynda is a board member of African Business Lawyer’s Club, a club dedicated to improving business practice in Africa. She is also Vice-President of the Diallo Telli Club, a think tank that promotes inclusive and sustainable growth in Africa.

Languages Spoken

French

English

Clients

ENEO CAMEROON

BERKELEY ENERGY CAMEROON CORPORATION

SINOSTEEL

CAMALCO

ACTIS

Work Highlights

-Legal advice on the structuring of a 95MW hydroelectric project with the State of Cameroon.

-Legal counsel to the client, a borrower, in connection with the structuring of a financing of 229 million euros (equiv EUR) with a pool of lender.

-Legal advice in connection with the structuring of the iron ore mining project worth 300,000,000 euros

Expert in these Jurisdictions

CAMEROON

FRANCE

OHADA ZONE

Education