Global
Practice Areas
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.
Career
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
Publications
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
Education
University of Pretoria
LLM Master of Laws
2014 - 2015
University Of Dakar Bourguiba
LLM Master of Laws, International Business Law
2006 - 2007
Awards
Ranked by Chambers
Chambers Global
2026
Ranked
Chambers Global
2025
Industry Sector Expertise
Corporate
Tax
Finance project