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Me Aissatou NDONG

Work Department

Finance Projects / Insurance / Arbitration

Position

Senior Associate

Career

Aissatou Ndong is admitted as an Avocat à la Cour in France since 2006 where she practiced in a wide range of areas (business law, insurance law, transport and construction law).

In France, she particularly worked on dispute resolution cases in defense of insurance companies. She is used to defending insurers and insured on the mobilization of guaranties aspect of the dispute, as well as the liabilities in the transport and construction sectors.

She seconded in 2014 at the arbitration department of the law firm Al Tamimi & Company in Abu Dhabi.

Aissatou is currently based in Senegal where she advises and represents clients on various areas including arbitration, corporate, transport law finance, fintech, IT, construction and regulatory issues, as a Senior associate at GENI & KEBE (DLA Piper Africa)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Since 2019: Senior Associate at Geni & Kébé Law Firm

2012 – 2019: Independent legal practice professional (Paris Bar)

Construction, insurance, contracts, reinsurance, international arbitration

2017 – 2019: SCP EVELYNE NABA & ASSOCIES (raking of the law firm: https://www.leadersleague.com/fr/firm/scp-evelyne-naba-associes/classements; https://www.leadersleague.com/fr/classements/promotion-construction-contentieux-de-la-construction-dont-assurances-classement-2021-cabinet-d-avocats-france)

Associate in charge of construction law cases.

Main clients: insurance companies, Bouygues construction

November 2014: AL TAMIMI & Company (ABU DHABI office): secondment in the arbitration department

2013 – 2015: MENEGHETTI AVOCATS (Paris Bar)

Associate in charge of construction, insurance and commercial litigation cases.

Contracts drafting

Ex:

• –  Advised and represented the insurance companies QBE, ALLIANZ and AXA, on construction cases
• –  Worked on product liability cases, defending French companies and their insurers
• –  Drafted contracts

2007-2010 – SCP LENGLET MALBESIN ET ASSOCIES – Law firm in Rouen (7 lawyers) Dispute resolution – Construction law

Worked as a qualified lawyer in Insurance Law, Construction law, Commercial Law, and was given a high level of responsibilities

I represented insurance companies (AXA, ALLIANZ, LLOYD’S), contractors, architects, and project managers; before national jurisdictions, and drafted summons, submissions and memoranda

Skills gained: Learned construction law, insurance law and how to represent clients during expertise meetings. Developed oral advocacy and legal writing skills

2006 – 2007 – AL CONSEIL ENTREPRISE– Law firm in Rouen Worked as a qualified lawyer in:

‐ Corporate law: corporate restructuring, transfer of ownership, shares repurchase ‐ Insolvency proceedings

‐ Tax law‐ Transport law

2005 – INCE & CO (Le Havre office)

3-months training period:

• –  Drafted summons for shipping companies (ex: DELMAS – CMA CGM) and road transport companies
• –  Drafted submissions and translated documents
• –  Acted in a case regarding the defectiveness of ships sold by a Greek company and drafted the expert appointment summon

2005 – DELMAS – CMA CGM

1-month training period in the legal department

• –  Legal monitoring of the subsidiaries
• –  Analysed and summarised contentious files

2004 – DRESSER-RAND SA

3-months training period: drafted international contracts related to the sale of engines to worldwide oil companies (TOTAL, SONATRACH, TECHNIP…)

2004 – Commercial Court of Le Havre

3-months training period: summary notes and judgments drafting as an assistant

 

Languages

English / French

Memberships

Admissions Paris’s Bar

Education

Queen Mary University of London, LLM with merit (2011)

Postgraduate Degree in Business Law with merit (2004)

Master’s Degree in private Law (2003)

Personal

RECENT EXPERIENCE

 

• Assisted a young women victim of car accident on a dispute against the driver’s insurance company
• Defended a road transport operator and its insurance company in a dispute against the client. Argued on the driver’s liability and his compliance with the road transport regulation
• Advised a Senegalese government owned company (APIX) on the renegotiation of a motorway concession contract with EIFFAGE
• Assisted and advised a Senegalese aggrotech start-up with regard to the providing of a digital platform (financed by the Worldbank), to the Senegalese Authority in Charge of the Warehouse Receipt System Regulation
• Advised the Deutch Bank on Senegalese law and regulations with regard to the providing of electronic banking services
• Advised an English Bank on a global survey about e-signature
• Advised METKA on the drafting of an Efficiency Energy Contract with EPC services for the installment of solar fields
• Advised Betchel for the Construction of St Louis Motorway
• Due diligence in the acquisition of Puma Energy Group
• Advised a Scottish port handling company in its bid for a tender launched by a company operating in the oil sector. Advised on regulations in various fields: environmental, social, harbour, energy
• Advised a Chinese bank on the extension of a sovereign guaranty to a hedging agreement through an interest rate swap
• Advised a French company about a potential ICSID claim related to a railroad concession contract in a west African country
• Advised a financial institution on WAEMU exchange regulation issues
• Advised a foreign bank on the financing for the construction of five regional airports in Senegal
• Advised an international organisation on the establishment of an arbitration centre in Africa
• Advised a worldwide IT company for the establishment of a data center in Senegal
• Advised a Group of Companies specialized in sustainable farming and based in west African countries, Switzerland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands on a syndicated loan agreement
• Represented insurance companies in construction disputes
• Represented clients on a corporate governance dispute

  OTHERS :

  Speaker at the NICARB (Nigerian Chartered Institute of Arbitrators) 2021 annual conference, on the « integrity of the arbitrator » https://ne-np.facebook.com/NICArbOrgNg/photos/mrs-aissatou-ndong-legal-practitioner-at-gsk-law-during-a-panel-session-on-ethic/896842294333736/

  Lecturer at ELBEUF Technology University Institute (IUT de Rouen), in 2007

  Examiner (Corporate Law, Employment law, Credit Law) for the National Diploma in Accounting and Finance, in 2006 and 2007

  Author for Transnational Dispute Management Journal: Aïssatou Ndong – Contributing Author | TDM Journal (transnational-dispute-management.com)

  Publication: International Commercial Arbitration – Procedural Approaches: Civil Law Versus Common Law

 

Leisure

Interests: Read autobiographies, memoires and essays, community life, politics