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- Legal Advice and Assistance in the building of a Floating Production Storage and Off-Loading (FPSO) vessel
Client: Major sub-contractor in the Oil & gas sector (confidential)
Activities:
- Local counsel for Mauritania and Senegal. Completion the list of local permits identified, check whether or not they are still required in both countries, identify any potential new permit in both countries, indicate the cost related to those permits, the nature of the administrative file to submit for the permit request, the length of the issuing period, etc.
- General legal assistance for the transaction of a vessel and the registration
Client: Shipping & Marine Supplier (confidential)
Activities:
- Legal advice and assistance relating the registration of a mortgage over a vessel, the sale of the vessel by auction and the registration of dual flag in Senegal.
- Legal advice and assistance for the acquisition and the funding of the purchase of a vessel
Client: Shipping & Marine Supplier (Confidential)
Activities:
- Legal advice and assistance on the borrowing of a loan of one million Korean won (equivalent to approximately US$ 894,454) from the financier resident in South Korea for the purchase of a vessel and assistance in the mortgage registration of a vessel as security.
- Legal advice, legal assistance in labour law
Client: Canada Port Company (confidential)
Activities:
- Legal assistance and advice, procedure for dismissal of the Chief Executive Officer for serious misconduct.
- Legal advice for Maritime Transport
Client: Advising a local company, subsidiary of a multinational company (confidential)
Activities:
- Legal assistance and advice relating to a Shipping concession, Storage/transport / towing area.
- Legal advice for stock seizures to be carried out in a bonded warehouse and on a vessel
Client: Advising a local company, subsidiary of a multinational company (confidential)
Activities:
- Legal advice relating to a precautionary seizure procedure to be carried out in a warehouse in Côte d’Ivoire and on a vessel at sea;
- Drafting a template warehouse receipt.
- Legal assistance for the registration and licensing of maritime companies
Client: Shipping companies (confidential)
Activities:
- Incorporation of the companies;
- Assistance with the obtention of licence for the activities of shipping agent and forwarding agent from the General Directorate of the DAKAR Autonomous Port and the Customs Commissioner.
- Legal assistance to shipping agent for a proceeding relating to a vessel
Client: A shipping company (confidential)
Activities:
- Legal assistance in order to obtain the recovery of a sum paid to obtain the lifting of a precautionary seizure of a vessel with detention.
- Financing the acquisition of military maritime equipment
Client: a bank and a public investment bank (confidential)
Activities:
- Legal assistance for the implementation of an addendum relating to a public supply contract
- Issuing a legal opinion concerning the capacity of the Ministry signing each of theFinancing Documents, obtaining the required authorisations and the enforceability of the Financing Documents under local law (this legal opinion includes an opinion on tax and exchange control matters);
– Review of draft Financing Documents from a local law perspective;
– More generally, legal advice in the context of the transaction on aspects of local law
(and in particular on the competence of the ministries empowered to sign the documentation).
– Review of two credit contracts under French law and advice on Senegalese aspects;
– Issuance of a standard legal opinion on the validity of the borrower’s obligations and its ability to sign documents
– Assistance in the review and collection of CPs.
– Review of a memo on Senegalese law concerning the assignment of receivables by way of security.
- Legal assistance to a Consortium of Agents
Client: a Consortium of agents (confidential)
Activities:
– Assistance in negotiations with the Port of Dakar and oil companies.
- Legal assistance to an oil brokerage and marine chartering company
Client: an oil brokerage and marine chartering company specializing in the brokerage and transportation of raw materials (confidential)
Activities:
– Drafting of security deeds;
– Legal advice and provision of legal opinions.
- Legal assistance to a company providing towing services in the Autonomous Port of Dakar
Client: a company specialising in towing (confidential)
Activities:
– Legal assistance,
– Review of contracts;
– Advice on labour law;
– Representation before the courts.