Practice Areas:  

• Business law
• Company law

Experience: 

• Advice on business law matters (Master’s degree (Maîtrise) in Business law from the Faculty of Legal and Economic Studies): advisory work, drafting requests, summons, legal arguments, memoranda, letters, work contracts, civil and commercial contracts, etc.
• Day-to-day corporate developments: forming companies, drafting General Shareholder Meeting minutes
• Litigation: contributions to litigation and debt recovery cases
• Internship at the Bamako Commercial Court: assistance to judges at the bench in drafting legal documents (2005-2007)

Professional activities:

Publications :

• Thesis on “The application of preventive regulations in the Republic of Mali” (“L’application du règlement préventif en République du Mali”)
• Articles: “Brief observations on renewing commercial leases in OHADA law” (“Brèves observations sur le renouvellement du bail commercial en droit de l’OHADA”) and “Issues raised in the pledge of unsecured titles on parcels of land under Malian substantive law” (“Problématique de la mise en gage des titres précaires portant sur des parcelles de terrains en droit positif malien”)

Séminars :

• FA-UJA Congress on arbitration, police custody, debt recovery under OHADA law, cybercrime (2011)
• Training seminar for young lawyers on the revised Uniform Acts under OHADA law (2011): “Understanding and Applying new reforms in OHADA law: commercial law, secured financing law, cooperative company law” (“Maitrise et appropriations des nouvelles réformes en droit de l’OHADA : droit commercial général, droit des suretés, droit des sociétés coopératives”)
• Internship at the International Training Center for French-speaking lawyers (CIFAF) (Porto-Novo, Benin), focused on ethics, professional practice, arbitration techniques, contractual techniques, proceedings before the ECOWAS Court of Justice

Languages: 

• English
• French
• Bambara