Experience

Amethis

• France
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Legal Counsel & Corporate Officer

  • Jul 2021 - Present

  Including 18 entities ( between Luxembourg, France, Morocco, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Mauritius, Egypt) on corporate management (fund manager, holdings, corporate companies, advisors, funds and some portfolio companies) 1- Corporate Management: - cover the corporate governance and corporate affairs aspects of the group; - ensure the redaction of the documentation related to the different meetings and of the day-to-day proceedings; - ensure the administrative organization of the different internal boards and committees of the group; - ensure the follow-up of various corporate documents and shareholdings from a corporate law point of view; - ensure the regulatory monitoring on specific aspects and various legal requests; - providing assistance in dealings with administrative authorities and monitoring regulatory obligations. 2- Legal Counsel: - advise and assist with legal issues for fund management and advisory entities; - provide assistance to the investment activities; - validate the deeds relating to investments, reinvestments and exits prepared by the external advisors; - take responsibility for drafting deeds relating to investments, reinvestments and exits conducted by the funds, SPV, Newco... in the scope of the related investment policies; - ensure the monitoring of portfolio participations through assistance to the management and investment teams; - take responsibility for conducting studies and analyses to provide solutions to business-related issues. Show less



Société Générale Sénégal

• Senegal
• Banking
• 300 - 400 Employee

• legal officer in the legal-insurance-taxation department

  • Aug 2018 - Jun 2021

  Support the development of the bank in its innovations and its numerous projects. Thus, it is was matter of: - Providing legal expertise in the bank's projects;- Analyze the legal aspects of products, offers and services;- Adapting products and commercial offers to legislative and regulatory changes;- Validate contractual and commercial documents and participate in their drafting; - Participate in the negotiation and drafting of contracts between the bank, its suppliers, partners and subcontractors; - Assisting and advising the operational and compliance departments, in particular on client files and/or the application of regulations;- Take responsibility for the processing of the bank's files before litigation; - Provide technical and functional support to the bank's various departments (legal watch, procedures, summary notes, thematic notes, etc.);- Participate in projects related to financial market regulations and our international deployment projects. - Participate in the bank's governance missions (procedures, shareholders' register, general meeting, transfer and pledging of shares). Show less

• Assistant Legal Officer

  • Oct 2017 - Jul 2018

  Support the development of the bank in its innovations and its numerous projects. Thus, it was a matter of: - Providing legal expertise in the bank's projects;- Analyze the legal aspects of products, offers and services;- Adapting products and commercial offers to legislative and regulatory changes;- Validate contractual and commercial documents and participate in their drafting; - Participate in the negotiation and drafting of contracts between the bank, its suppliers, partners and subcontractors; - Assisting and advising the operational and compliance departments, in particular on client files and/or the application of regulations;- Take responsibility for the processing of the bank's files before litigation; - Provide technical and functional support to the bank's various departments (legal watch, procedures, summary notes, thematic notes, etc.);- Participate in projects related to financial market regulations and our international deployment projects. - Participate in the bank's governance missions (procedures, shareholders' register, general meeting, transfer and pledging of shares). Show less



African Leaders Factory Initiative (ALFI)

• Senegal
• Civic and Social Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Director of African Leaders Factory Initiative Senegal

  • Mar 2020 - Mar 2021

  - Lead the organization towards the achievement of its mission and overall goal; - Coordinate the activities of the various departments; - Ensure public, internal and external relations with the organization; - Ensure the correct functioning of the administration and control the hiring of staff; - Represent the organization in all commitments to third parties; - Decline the different lines of the agenda of the administrative meetings; - Manage risks (financial, human, technical): anticipation, identification, implementation of corrective actions; - Presenting the annual general report to the general assembly with the partners. Show less



Caisse Camerounaise d'Epargne et de Crédit (CCEC)

• Yaoundé Cameroun

• Legal Assistant Intern

  • Aug 2014 - Oct 2014

  This position provided us with skills in contractual drafting, in the processing of legal files, in the processing of credit files and in insurance. We were also in the Commercial Department for the verification of accounting documents and review of customer products. This position provided us with skills in contractual drafting, in the processing of legal files, in the processing of credit files and in insurance. We were also in the Commercial Department for the verification of accounting documents and review of customer products.