Chazai Wamba

Banking & Finance

Managing Partner

Lawyer admitted to the Cameroon and Paris bars, Aurélie is a founder and the managing partner of Chazai Wamba.

Her practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, capital markets, banking and finance, project finance, public-private partnerships, and commercial contracts.

She was an associate at the Paris office of the English business law firm Ashurst LLP before joining the Paris office of the American law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in 2014.

Aurélie Chazai has also worked at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, Herbert Smith Freehills LLP, Linklaters LLP, CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre, Ernst & Young and in the capital markets department of AXA Investments Managers.

Throughout her career, Aurélie has been exposed to a wide variety of corporate transactions in Europe and Africa, especially in member countries of the Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law (OHADA) in Africa.

She was a lecturer in Banking law at the Cergy Pontoise University in France from 2012 to 2013.

English and French

She is a member of the African Business Lawyers’ Club (ABLC), a club dedicated to the promotion of better business practices in Africa. She is also a member of the Association des Juristes Camerounais de France (AJCF).

Aurélie Chazai holds a Master 2 in Financial Law, a Master 2 in Business Law and Tax, a Master 1 in Tax Law and a Licence in Private Law from the University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne.

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