Local Counsels:

• Adamou Coulibaly
• Valentine Meka'mne
• Albert Kongbeto
• Tribert Agondjo
• Francis Diallo
• Christophe Ballovera C.
• Herman Rakotoniary
• Moussa Hamidou Fazil
• Roger Degninou
• Kayitare François
• Diouf Fall
• Jean Bernard Padare
• Mupenzi Adolphe
• Hussein Ranchhod
• Mamboleo Omar
• Serge Médard Missamou

Francis Diallo

Francis DIALLO is our local counsel in Guinea.

The main areas of Francis’s practice include general commercial law, agency and distribution contracts, real estate projects, corporate and restructuring in both international and domestic fields, public procurement.

In relation to public procurement contracts, Francis represents and assists clients in their relationships with public authorities and advises them on registration procedures, planning works and other issues, including related litigation.

Francis also advises and represents Guinean and international clients involved in real estate development retail and construction projects. He advises on leases, acquisitions, project finance, PPPs, refurbishment projects and on social, economic and environmental projects.

He equally advises clients on wind-ups and acts as liquidator of several companies across various industrial and financial sectors covering all subjects relating to wind-ups as well as labour projects.

Francis's international practice focuses on business relations with China and to an even greater extent, Central African Republic.

In China, Francis assists different investors in their settlement projects, whether in joint venture or not, in activity sectors such as textile industry, sports & leisure equipments, printing industry and food industry.

In Guinea he has handled legal audits, negotiations as well as the drafting of conventions for the recovery of large companies in the banking steel, energy supply, mining, transport and telecom sectors. He acts as counsel to private and public operators and liquidator to banks and industrial companies.

 

EDUCATION

Masters in Private law, University of Sorbonne, 2005 (Cum Laude)

 

LANGUAGES

French, English