Global
Practice Areas
Administrative Law: Banking and Financial services
Arbitration: Charities
Company and corporate law: Energy
Litigation and alternative dispute resolution: Healthcare and Pharmacies
Employment and Labour Law: Insurance
Environment Law: Mining
Governance and Legal Reform: Oil and Gas
Public-Private Partnerships: Manufacturing
Business and Human Rights: Retail
Intellectual Property: Real Estate, Property and Construction
Mergers and Acquisitions: Technology, Media and Communications
Tax: Transport
Career
Mouhamed Kebe is Managing Partner of Geni & Kebe a member of DLA Piper Africa. He is admitted to practice in Cote d’Ivoire and Senegal.
He has over 30 years of experience in the field of commercial arbitration, investment arbitration, and domestic litigation in Africa.
He acts for states and their entities, as well as for corporate clients in all types of disputes, focusing on energy and natural resources, infrastructure, telecommunications, banking and finance. Advises on corporate transactions, major projects and public-private partnerships, with a particular focus on the mining and energy sectors.
He sits also as arbitrator serving as tribunal chair, sole arbitrator, and co-arbitrator with arbitrator appointments under the rules of ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL, CCJA.
He has lectured and published extensively on questions dealing with investment treaties, including a recent book on ‘’the African Continental Free Trade Area and the Future of Investor-State Dispute Settlement in Africa.’’
He is a member of the Court of Arbitration of the ICC, a member of the panel of arbitrators of the Common Court of Justice and Arbitration of OHADA, and a member of the panel of arbitrators of the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC).
Professional Memberships
Member of the Senegalese Bar Association
Cote d’Ivoire Bar
Law Society of England & Wales
The Court of Arbitration of the ICC,
Member of the panel of arbitrators of the Common Court of Justice and Arbitration of OHADA,
Member of the panel of arbitrators of the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC
Publications
Doing Business in Cameroon : Key Issues to be aware of: IFLR 2014 Legislation guide, 2014
Doing Business in Cote d’Ivoire : New steps for a more attractive business climate, IFLR 2014
Senegal Business Environment : From a local to a regional perspective, IFLR 2014
Le Nouveau Code des Investissements de Côte d’Ivoire: Focus sur les principales innovations, 2019
The liberalization of financial services in Africa, Africa Connect, Issue2, 2019
https://www.dlapiper.com/en/africa/insights/publications/2019/04/africa-connected-issue-2/the-liberalization-of-financial-services-in-africa/
Clients
Represented Oracle on a claim before the Employment Court of Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Represented BBC on a claim before the Employment Court of Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Advised SANOFI on regulatory labour issues in Ivory Coast
Represented Plan International in a class action claim in Guinea
Represented Microsoft on a redundancy claim in Senegal
Advised Nokia for the closure of physical offices in Mali & Niger
Advised Facebook on regulatory labour issues in Senegal
Languages Spoken
English
French
Arabic
Expert in these Jurisdictions
Senegal
OHADA region