Sylla & Partners

.SYLLA & PARTNERS,

an internationally oriented business law firm

The Firm

Since 2013, SYLLA & PARTNERS is taking a big part in restructuring the legal profession in Guinea and becomes a reference for many other law firms created since then. We are proud of our achievements and well prepared to grow fast.

With 4 lawyers (2 senior partners and 1 partner) and 3 assistants staff members, the team is committed to support our clients in their day by day business.

1. Objectives

Illuminating customers in their strategic choices and assisting them in developing their projects, preventing legal and tax risks associated with their activities, alerting them to the possible impacts of any new legislation or regulations on their sector,are the main objectives of SYLLA & PARTNERS.

1. Principles and values

The firm is strongly committed to the principles of integrity, rigor, quality and professional ethics. The strict observance of these principles in everyday working methods of SYLLA & PARTNERS gives our company a major credit for professionalism and reliability.

1. Assets

SYLLA & PARTNERS makes it a rule to confer to services it provides to its customers a international standard quality while relying on its extensive local knowledge of the areas in which it operates.

SYLLA & PARTNERS is a firm whose employees work perfectly in both English and French.

SYLLA & PARTNERS collaborates with several international law firms on issues related to Guinea and the West African sub-region.

Areas of expertise

1. Negotiations and mining law

The attraction of the Guinean mining sector for foreign direct investment (FDI) is undeniable. The experience of SYLLA & PARTNERS' team in the mining sector and their knowledge of structures and the ongoing reforms in this sector enable our firm to assist the clients in negotiating and implementing their mining investments projects:

• Assistance to the government in the negotiation of mining conventions;
• Carrying out Formalities for acquiring mining rights;
• Assistance to companies in the negotiation of mining conventions;
• Management of legal and fiscal regime under convention;
• Development of joint-venture.

1. Energy and Infrastructures

• • Project financing and contract preparation

We accompany in all phases of the contractual relations both with the government in the framework of Public Private Partnership, and with local and international private partners who are often equipped with strong teams of lawyers in order not only to best protect the commercial interests of our clients, but also to ensure that the contractual schemes are most beneficial fiscally:

• performance of due pre-contractual diligence;
• contractual design and installation;
• Contract Negotiation and drafting;
• joint venture structuring;
• review of draft contracts before they are signed.

• • Audit of existing contracts and agreements

We review major contracts and agreements to identify any weaknesses against our clients, and to assess the performance and risks of the parties ' contractual obligations.

The audit also aims to verify the legal validity of the documents supporting these contracts.

It will moreover serve either to lay the foundations for a renegotiation or to anticipate the regularization of the risks identified.

We make recommendations on improving contract management where appropriate.

1. Taxation and custom

• • Tax audit

An anticipated tax audit is a controlled tax audit. This is particularly true in the current context where the tax administration is becoming increasingly aggressive.

Thus, in strict compliance with the rules of confidentiality, we will carry out tax audits or limited reviews on your behalf in order to identify for the periods audited the tax risks to which the company is exposed.

At the end of the audit we assist in the regularization of the identified risks.

Finally, we make recommendations with a view to establishing an internal procedure aimed at circumscribing the occurrence of these risks.

• • Assistance in tax and customs procedures

We assist in tax and customs disputes through:

• assistance with the actual controls;
• personalized management of the control procedure and relations with the administration (development of the overall defense strategy, preparation of the taxpayer's observations);
• negotiation with the administration in the framework of a transactional settlementin strict respect of ethical and deontological rules.

• • Assistance in the declaration of results

In addition to fiscal check, we assist on the basis of the complete financial statements, with the preparation of the tax restatement for the transition from accounting income to tax income, as well as the preparation of the income statement. SYLLA & PARTNERS provides its customers optimal fiscal management. We provide permanent tax assistance and offer our clients the opportunity to submit on their behalf periodic tax returns or conduct annual tax reviews and assist them during tax audits.

1. Corporate law

SYLLA & PARTNERS accompany its clients for the choice of legal structures to better secure their transactions and deals:

• Compliance with the OHADA your structures applicable to various types of companieslegislation;
• Relationship between shareholders, executives and employees of the company;
• Status and responsibilityof executives;
• Transactions on the Capital and issuance of securities;
• Restructuring, merger, partial transfer of assets;
• Legal secretary.

1. Social and Labour Law

SYLLA & PARTNERS defends the interests of your company in the filed of labor law and social protection.

Backing the human resources and legal departments, we assist you in the following areas:

• • Recruitment;
  • Drafting labor contracts for local employees and expatriates;
  • Social management and training;
  • Collective bargaining;
  • Conducting dismissal procedures;
  • Optimization of compensation techniques;
  • Management of labor and social security disputes;
  • Various social declarations and returns.

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