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Business Law

Business law focuses on the many regulations governing businesses and organizations both locally and globally in areas like contracts, taxation laws, intellectual property rights, and disputes between parties. This field is essential for keeping business entities as well as sole proprietorships safe from harm as they exercise their right to conduct business without disregard for ethics or laws. The Organisation for the Harmonisation of business law in Africa has as main focus to better investment and business partnership conditions in its region thus; ten acts have been drawn up;

  • The Uniform Act on General Commercial Law adopted on December 15, 2010 in Lome (Togo) to later enter into force in May 2011.
  • The Uniform Act Organizing Securities Law adopted on December 15, 2010 in Lome (Togo) to later enter into force on May 15, 2011
  • The Uniform Act on Mediation adopted on November 23, 2017 in Conakry (Guinea) to later enter into force on the 15th of March 2018
  • The Uniform Act on Arbitration adopted on November 23, 2017 in Conakry ( Guinea) to later enter into force on 15th of December 2017
  • The Uniform Act on Insolvency Law adopted on September 10, 2015 in Grand Bassam (Cote d’Ivoire) to later enter into force on December 24, 2015
  • The Uniform Act on Simplified Recovery Procedures and Measures of Execution adopted on April 10, 1998 in Libreville (Gabon) to later enter into force on August 31st,1998
  • The Uniform Act relating to accounting law and financial information adopted on January 26, 2017 to later enter into force on January 1st,2019
  • The Uniform Act on Commercial Companies and Economic Interest groups adopted on January 30, 2014 in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) to later enter into force on May 5, 2014
  • The Uniform Act on Contracts of carriage of goods by road
  • The Uniform Act on New Normative Areas as amended on the 13th of October 2013 and adopted on the 24th November 2017
  • The Uniform Act on Cooperative Societies Law adopted on December 15, 2010 in Lome (Togo) to later enter into force on May 15, 2011

 

Our business law department is versed in all of these acts and is capable of accompanying foreign and local investors and well as big, small and medium size companies in the realisation of their objectives.