Boubacar Diakité

Boubacar Diakité is a senior associate at Geni & Kebe and heads the corporate practice. He is qualified to practice in the 17 OHADA member states due to their unified business laws (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Comoros, Cote d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Republic of Congo, Senegal and Togo).

He has been seconded to major law firms in London including Norton Rose Fulbright for the International Lawyer for Africa (ILFA) program and at Slaughter & May’s EXPLORE program in London as well and lastly at the DLA London and Paris Offices. Boubacar also lived in South Africa and Mauritius for a year whilst studying for his Master’s degree.

He regularly advises on cross-border transactions in these jurisdictions.

LLM Master of Laws, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa. 2015.

2008 LLB in Project Management at the National School of Economy, Dakar, Senegal

2007 LLM Master of Law in International Business Law at the University of Dakar Bourguiba, Senegal

 M&A Under OHADA Law, 2017

 The Impact of Bilateral Investment Treaties on Socio-Economic Rights, 2015

 Country Guides: Securities and Banking Senegal, Thomson Reuters, 2013

 2013-2014 Edition of the World Justice Project Rule of Law Index 2013

 Women, Business and the Law 2012, participation as legal expert for the World Bank; http://wbl.worldbank.org/contributors

 Women, Business and the Law, 2011, participation as legal expert for the World Bank. http://wbl.worldbank.org/contributors

 Country guides. Securities and Banking Senegal, Thomson Reuters, 2011

University of Pretoria

LLM Master of Laws

2014 - 2015

University Of Dakar Bourguiba

LLM Master of Laws, International Business Law

2006 - 2007

Ranked by Chambers

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2026

Ranked

Chambers Global

2025