BENIN Trends and Developments
Trends and Developments Contributed by: Nicolin Assogba D2A SCPA
D2A SCPA is a business law firm based in Cotonou, Benin, with more than 20 years of practice. The firm brings together three partners, four counsel, two junior lawyers and around ten legal practitioners, organised into an advisory and legal-engineering department and a litigation department. Its corporate govern - ance practice covers the incorporation, transforma - tion and restructuring of commercial companies gov - erned by OHADA law, shareholder agreements and share portage arrangements, advice to companies
with state participation, and disputes between share - holders and corporate bodies. This work forms part of a broader offering spanning banking and finance law, structured financing, debt recovery on behalf of banks, and commercial litigation and arbitration before the Cotonou courts, the CCJA, the CAMeC- CCIB and the International Chamber of Commerce. The firm regularly advises banks, companies and in - ternational financial institutions on financing, govern - ance and compliance matters. law and corporate governance, banking and finance law, share portage arrangements, shareholder disputes and arbitration. He is an arbitrator with the CIAM in Lomé and the CAMeC-CCIB, serving as a director of the International Conference of Bars of Common Legal Tradition. He authored the Benin Banking & Finance guide for Chambers (2019 and 2020).
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Nicolin Assogba is a partner at SCPA D2A and a member of the Benin Bar (since 2011). He holds a postgraduate degree (DEA) in fundamental private law and a university diploma in insolvency and business-recovery law
from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and has more than 15 years’ advisory and litigation experience. His practice covers OHADA company
SCPA D2A Lot 957 Sikècodji Enagnon Rue 222 Porte 1045 Immeuble Fifamin 01 BP 4452 Cotonou, Benin Tel: +229 0160 613 103 Email: contact@scpad2a.org Web: www.scpad2a.org
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