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We invite you to a unique Webinar on the reform of the law on commercial companies applicable in the 17 member States of OHADA. This webinar will detail all significant impacts for commercial companies active in the region and for the structuring of investments and transactions in Sub-Saharan Africa. It will also update attendees on key changes to make to existing entities articles of association.

Context

While the number of transnational companies and international hedge funds investing in Sub-Saharan Africa has been increasing for several years, OHADA law relating to commercial companies (which governs the law on commercial companies of 17 countries representing 250 million people) has been substantially revised to be ever more modern. It meets international standards and the needs of international investors in Africa. Investors can now “customize” the governance of their local subsidiaries, while having many financial instruments available to organize their relationships with local partners, all that with a better legal security concerning the “legal” tools they can use in joint ventures or private or listed companies. OHADA law on commercial companies ranks among the most sophisticated, innovative and “modern” law of all the emerging markets around the world.

Objectives

• Global overview of changes and innovations in OHADA corporate law;
• Impacts on corporate governance and new possibilities of financial instruments;
• Presenting the new opportunities for the structuring of investments or transactions;
• Approach to updating articles of association and shareholder agreements regulated by the OHADA law.

Dates and Speakers

5 June 2014 at 15h00 (Paris Time GMT+2:00).

This free webinar open to anyone will be animated by Boris Martor, Partner Eversheds LLP and Jawad Fassi Fehri, Senior Associate, Eversheds LLP.

If you have any questions, please contact Boris Martor, Email: Africalawinstitute@eversheds.com