Mouhamed Kebe

Practice Areas

Administrative Law: Banking and Financial services

Arbitration: Charities

Company and corporate law: Energy

Litigation and alternative dispute resolution: Healthcare and Pharmacies

Employment and Labour Law: Insurance

Environment Law: Mining

Governance and Legal Reform: Oil and Gas

Public-Private Partnerships: Manufacturing

Business and Human Rights: Retail

Intellectual Property: Real Estate, Property and Construction

Mergers and Acquisitions: Technology, Media and Communications

Tax: Transport

Career

Mouhamed Kebe is Managing Partner of Geni & Kebe a member of DLA Piper Africa. He is admitted to practice in Cote d’Ivoire and Senegal. 

He has over 30 years of experience in the field of commercial arbitration, investment arbitration, and domestic litigation in Africa.  

He acts for states and their entities, as well as for corporate clients in all types of disputes, focusing on energy and natural resources, infrastructure, telecommunications, banking and finance. Advises on corporate transactions, major projects and public-private partnerships, with a particular focus on the mining and energy sectors.

He sits also as arbitrator serving as tribunal chair, sole arbitrator, and co-arbitrator with arbitrator appointments under the rules of ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL, CCJA. 

He has lectured and published extensively on questions dealing with investment treaties, including a recent book on ‘’the African Continental Free Trade Area and the Future of Investor-State Dispute Settlement in Africa.’’ 

He is a member of the Court of Arbitration of the ICC, a member of the panel of arbitrators of the Common Court of Justice and Arbitration of OHADA, and a member of the panel of arbitrators of the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC). 

Professional Memberships

Member of the Senegalese Bar Association

Cote d’Ivoire Bar

Law Society of England & Wales

The Court of Arbitration of the ICC,

Member of the panel of arbitrators of the Common Court of Justice and Arbitration of OHADA,

Member of the panel of arbitrators of the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC

Publications

 Doing Business in Cameroon : Key Issues to be aware of: IFLR 2014 Legislation guide, 2014

 Doing Business in Cote d’Ivoire : New steps for a more attractive business climate, IFLR 2014

 Senegal Business Environment : From a local to a regional perspective, IFLR 2014

 Le Nouveau Code des Investissements de Côte d’Ivoire: Focus sur les principales innovations, 2019

 The liberalization of financial services in Africa, Africa Connect, Issue2, 2019

 https://www.dlapiper.com/en/africa/insights/publications/2019/04/africa-connected-issue-2/the-liberalization-of-financial-services-in-africa/

Clients

 Represented Oracle on a claim before the Employment Court of Abidjan, Ivory Coast

 Represented BBC on a claim before the Employment Court of Abidjan, Ivory Coast 

 Advised SANOFI on regulatory labour issues in Ivory Coast

 Represented Plan International in a class action claim in Guinea

 Represented Microsoft on a redundancy claim in Senegal

 Advised Nokia for the closure of physical offices in Mali & Niger 

 Advised Facebook on regulatory labour issues in Senegal

Languages Spoken

English

French

Arabic

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Senegal

OHADA region