AFRICA

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Africa

UNRIVALLED EXPERTISE

We have unrivalled experience in handling cases involving Africa, particularly North and West Africa and are among the top-ranked teams in specialist legal directories.

Our team has acted in French, English and Arabic in litigation and arbitration proceedings involving the following countries:

Algeria
Benin
Burkina Faso
Cameroon
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Djibouti
Egypt
Gabon
Guinea
Ivory Coast
Libya
Madagascar
Mali
Mauritania
Morocco
Niger
Republic of Congo
Republic of Equatorial Guinea
Senegal
South Africa
Sudan
Tanzania
Togo

Many of our French and foreign clients operate across the African continent, in both the public and private spheres, in sectors as diverse as construction, energy, defence and security, natural resources, corporate litigation, telecommunications and international investment.

Our recent track record

Representing a major French public works group in a dispute against the client concerning the construction of a bulk mineral cargo port in a West African country.
Representing an African State in an ICSID arbitration concerning the ownership of oil assets located on both sides of the border.
Representing an African State before the Court of Appeal of Paris in two proceedings against a Belgian company seeking the annulment of an ICC award on jurisdiction in a dispute arising from a concession contract for the exploitation of natural resources.
Representing a Moroccan telecom operator before the French Courts in a dispute with a Belgian company in connection with non-performance of a contract and international fraud.
Representing an engineering company in a dispute with a French bank and its local subsidiary regarding the call of a first demand guarantee for a construction project in South Africa.
Representing a leading telecom operator in various ICC arbitration cases against an African State, including an ICC emergency arbitration and the seizure of assets belonging to that State in France, Switzerland and in the United States of America.
Representing a Malagasy businessman and his group of companies in an ICC dispute concerning the breach of a joint venture agreement entered into for the joint operation of a bank.
Representing a Gulf oil company in an ICC arbitration against an oil engineering and drilling group concerning non-performance of a contract for the operation and management of oil wells in Algeria.
Representing one of the main shareholders and a Central African bank in a dispute with its shareholders, primarily the Central African State.
Representing a company of a French defence group in an ICC arbitration against an Ivorian bank concerning a contract of assignment of receivables.
Representing an oil drilling company in an ICC arbitration against an African oil group regarding the charging of demobilisation costs for a drilling rig in Algeria.
Representing a West African telecommunications group in a dispute before the Commercial Court of Paris against a telecommunications equipment manufacturer concerning the payment of certain network infrastructures.
Representing a company manufacturing medical equipment in a dispute brought before the Commercial Court of Paris, concerning the sudden termination of established commercial relations with a distributor in North Africa.
Representing a group of majority shareholders in an ICC arbitration concerning the breach of a shareholders’ agreement relating to the governance of a chemical group in West Africa.
Representing a German construction company in negotiations with a Libyan investment fund regarding a hotel construction project in Burkina Faso.
Representing a French company specialising in the energy sector against a Cape Verdean company concerning the construction of a thermal power plant in Cape Verde.
Representing two French companies against a North African State in an ICSID arbitration concerning the breach of a Bilateral Investment Treaty between France and that country in the field of water treatment.
Representing a group of majority shareholders in an ICC arbitration concerning the breach of a shareholders’ agreement relating to the governance of a chemical group in West Africa.
Representing a European defence company in a CCJA arbitration against an African State regarding the early termination of a concession contract.
Representing a cement company in the pre-litigation phase of an ICSID arbitration against the Autonomous Port of Cotonou claiming payment of port fees.

Teynier Pic ranked as one of the top law firms in Africa for International Arbitration and Commercial Litigation by The Legal 500 in the EMEA 2022-2023 guide (Tier 4)

In 2020 and 2021, Eric Teynier was ranked as one of the best lawyers in Africa by the magazine Jeune Afrique

For the last few years, Teynier Pic has been ranked in Décideurs Magazine as one of the best Africa Desk in international arbitration and Litigation (Excellent)