François SERRES Law Firm

Experts in advisory and litigation

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ABOUT THE FIRM 

Who we are

The François SERRES Law firm was created in a pluridisciplinary perspective to provide services in the areas of advisory and litigation. The law firm associates multilingual lawyers able to intervene at national and international levels and industrial sectors consultants able to provide to the clients a global, independent and professional service.

Which qualities

The Law firm provides services to the clients marked with extreme rigor, professionalism, integrity, availability, independance, creativity, liberty and humanity.

Law is to be created

Which values

Partnership, Governance and Development

Any undue exploitation of natural resources is a crime against humanity.

Our clients

The Law firm is honored to have represented private, public international clients on several continents
International Financial Institutions
  • World Bank
  • African Development Bank
  • West African Development Bank
  • AfreximBank
  • European Union
  • MCA
  • UNIDO, UNECA, UNDP, UNITAR
  • AFD/GIZ/ENABEL

PPP Units
Ivory Coast, Benin

Sector Regulation Authorities
ARREC, ARSEL (Cameroon)

Public contracts Regulatory Authorities
Ivory Coast, Togo, Benin, Senegal, Madagascar

Administrators of Special Economic Zones
Senegal, Republic of Congo, Guinea, Mauritania 

Investment Promotion Agencies
Senegal, Madagascar 

African Economic Commission
of the United Nations 
Central Africa Regional Office

Regional Economic Communities
WAEMU, ECOWAS, COMESA, CEMAC

Private clients

  • Industrial (energy and water)
    and agro-industrial sectors
  • Banking
  • Construction
  • Transports
  • Ports
  • Telecom
  • Health and education
  • Protected areas
  • Culture and Art
  • Tourism
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Major zones of activities

Europe : France, UK, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Monaco

West and Central Africa, COMESA zone

Maghreb and Machrek

Middle East (Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Dubai, Oman, Qatar)

United States

China

Our network

Europe

Law Firm Avocap 2.2
Paris : 222 bd Saint Germain 75007
Bruxelles : Boulevard Saint-Michel 11, 1040 Etterbeek

USA

Steven M. Shneebaum Law Firm
Washington DC

Anglophone Africa

All Anglophone countries
Primera Africa Legal network

Lagos : 1 B Utomi Road Airie Avenue, Off Admiralty Way Lekki, 25 Phase 1.

Abuja : 1st Floor, Right Wing, Afri Investment House Abuja n°50 Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Cadastral Zone 06, Maitama.

Francophone Africa

ZONE CEDEAO, CEMAC, CEEAC, COMESA

Network of Law firms, consultants, engineers, economists, financiers 

Middle East

Law Firms
Beyrouth :  Levant Law Practice

Consultants financiers
Dubaï :  JML Investment

Maghreb

Technical and Financiers Consultants

Tunisia :  Jade Advisory