• Legal assistance in connection with the acquisition of a hotel group

Client: Hotel group (confidential)

Activities:

  • Due diligence – review of comprehensive insurance policies.
  • Legal assistance in connection with the proposal of health insurance products in Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire

Client: South African insurance company (confidential)

Activities:

  • Response to a questionnaire on commercial cooperation and reinsurance agreements through insurance law, tax law, intellectual property law and personal data protection.
  • Acquisition of shares in hotel companies

Client: An investment company specialising in the hotel industry (confidential)

Activities:

  • Due diligence – Review of insurance policies and insurance delegation agreements.
  • Management of a multi-risk insurance dispute

Client: An oil group (confidential)

Activities:

  • Assistance and representation of the oil group in the context of the compensation procedure (expert assessment procedure and proceedings on the merits).
  • Tax regime for brokerage activities in Senegal

Client: An entity located in Dubai (confidential)

Activities:

  • Legal note on the tax implications of insurance brokerage activities in Senegal.
  • Regulatory and tax memorandum on insurance in Senegal

Client: Agri-food distribution group (confidential)

Activities:

  • Legal consultation on the regulatory and tax treatment of direct payments of premiums and indemnities; Rebilling of insurance premiums; Reallocation of indemnities; Potential penalties and risks; Senegalese regulatory aspects.
  • Legal assistance to an insurance company in Senegal

Client: Insurance company in Senegal (confidential)

Activities:

  • Legal opinion on the compatibility between the CIMA code and Regulation 09-10 on foreign exchange regulations concerning authorisation to open foreign accounts with the Minister of Finance.
  • Legal assistance to an American insurance company regarding American nationals covered by their insurance policies and located outside American jurisdiction.

Client: American insurance company (confidential)

Activities:

  • Responses to a legal and tax questionnaire on insurance law.
  • Legal assistance to a hotel group regarding operating losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Client: A hotel group (confidential)

Activities:

  • Management of the claim for compensation from the insurance company.
  • Legal assistance for an oil group.

Client: A Russian oil group (confidential)

Activities:

  • Red Flag Due Diligence Report on the company’s insurance operations.
  • Legal assistance for a construction company.

Client: An Ivorian construction company (confidential)

Activities:

  • Management of insurance policy subscription and monitoring of public contract performance.
  • Legal assistance to an insurance brokerage company in connection with the sale of its business.

Client: an insurance brokerage company (confidential)

Activities:

  • Analysis of the applicable legal framework (CIMA Code), legal analysis of the transfer of the business portfolio, legal opinion on reinsurance abroad.
  • Litigation between an insurance company and a broker (recovery of unpaid debts)

Client: an insurance company (confidential)

Activities:

  • Assistance and representation before the Senegalese courts
  • Litigation relating to a claim for compensation following a fire (amount in dispute: 900,000,000 CFA francs)

Client: AXA ASSURANCES

Activities: Advice, assistance, representation before the Senegalese courts; expert assessment proceedings; summary proceedings; proceedings on the merits, pending and on appeal.

  • Litigation relating to a claim for compensation following a fire – property damage – business interruption – damages (amount in dispute: 8,500,000,000 CFA francs)

Client: International insurance company (confidential)

Activities:

  • Advice, assistance, representation before the Senegalese courts; expert assessment proceedings; summary proceedings; proceedings on the merits, pending and on appeal.
  • Various debt recovery disputes against insurance companies on the basis of subrogation proceedings before various Senegalese courts – motor insurance

Client: International insurance company (confidential)

Activities:

  • Assistance and representation before Senegalese courts
  • Pre-litigation phase: Analysis and observations on an expert report following a claim

Client: Real estate company in Senegal (confidential)

Activities:

  • Analysis and assessment of the report, estimation of compensation.
  • Pre-litigation phase: Formal demand for payment of compensation

Client: Medical infrastructure design company (confidential)

Activities:

  • Drafting of a demand for payment of insurance compensation following a claim
  • Legal consultation on a claim for compensation following the demonstrations in Senegal on 4 and 5 March 2021

Client: International oil and energy group (confidential)

Activities:

  • Analysis and recommendations on the possibility of compensation
  • Legal and tax advice on the risks associated with the re-invoicing of insurance premiums and risk coverage in the WAEMU by foreign insurance companies

Client: International law firm (confidential)

Activities:

  • Analysis and recommendations on the possibility of compensation
  • Legal consultation on the risks of operating as an insurer without a licence

Client: Law firm based in Kenya (confidential)

Activities:

  • Analysis and recommendations
  • Review of insurance contracts

Client: Ivorian contracting company (confidential)

Activities:

  • Assistance and review in drafting and monitoring the execution of insurance contracts
  • Audit

Client: Hotel complex in Senegal (confidential)

Activities:

  • Audit of the company on insurance law aspects.
  • Legal assistance to an agri-food company

Client: International insurance company (confidential)

Activity:

  •   due diligence – review of insurance policies taken out by the company
  • Legal assistance to an insurance company undergoing tax restructuring

Client: International insurance company (confidential)

Activity:

  • Response to the Minister of Finance and Budget on tax adjustment
  • Legal assistance for the creation of a company active in the development, construction, equipping and commissioning of a vaccine manufacturing plant

Client: International financial institution – Pan-African financing institution – Development financing agency (confidential)

Activity:

  • Due diligence – Legal framework for insurance in Senegal
  • Legal assistance with a partner specialising in the legal framework for taxation and insurance in Senegal

Client: International law firm (confidential)

Activity:

  • Due diligence – Legal framework for insurance in Senegal
  • Legal assistance with partners for microfinance companies

Client: Microfinance company in West Africa (confidential)

Activity:

  • Due diligence – review of insurance policies taken out by companies