Me Mame Ngone SOW > GENI & KEBE > Dakar, Senegal > Lawyer Profile
GENI & KEBE Offices
47, BOULEVARD REPUBLIQUE
IMMEUBLE SORANO 2nd FLOOR
DAKAR
Senegal
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Me Mame Ngone SOW
Work Department
Financial Services
Position
Team Leader
Senior Associate
Career
Mame is a Senior Associate with GENI & KEBE, a full-service commercial law firm providing legal services in sub-Saharan Africa and a member firm of DLA Piper Africa.
She leads the Financial Services, Finance & Projects team. Mame works with foreign investors to ensure that they understand the legal requirements and opportunities in their corporate transactions.
She oversees complex advice legal due diligence, banking sector and regulatory compliance transactions and assists clients to navigate the investment laws in Senegal, including with major projects and cross-border financing arrangements.
She has been seconded to major law firms in London including Dentons and at the DLA London Office.
Ms Sow is an alumni of the International Lawyers Law Firms for Africa (ILFA) program.
Languages
English / French
Education
2011 – Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Information Technology and Communication Law, University of Montreal, Canada
May 2002 – L.L.M., Master of Law and Logic, (Specialization: Private International Law & Certificate in Comparative and International Law, Howard University School of Law, Washington, DC.
June 1998 – Bachelor’s Degree (LLB) in Private Law, Catholic University of Lille, Franc
CONTRIBUTIONS TO GLOBAL PRACTICE GUIDE
- Energy: Oil & Gas Law and Practice in Senegal Energy 2019, Chambers AND PARTNERS
- Accessing finance for mining activities, Presentation at the fifth Senegal International Mining Conference and Exhibition (SIM Senegal), held in Dakar from 6-8 November 2018.
- De Rio De Janeiro à Genève en Passant Par Nagoya, Legal Aspects of Sustainable Natural Resources Legal Working Paper Series
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Mame is a Senior Associate with GENI & KEBE, a full-service commercial law firm providing legal services in sub-Saharan Africa and a member firm of DLA Piper Africa. She leads the Financial Services, Finance & Projects team. Mame works with foreign investors to ensure that they understand the legal requirements and opportunities in their corporate transactions. She oversees complex advice legal due diligence, banking sector and regulatory compliance transactions and assists clients to navigate the investment laws in Senegal, including with major projects and cross-border financing arrangements. She has been seconded to major law firms in London including Dentons and at the DLA London Office. Ms Sow is an alumni of the International Lawyers Law Firms for Africa (ILFA) program. EXPERIENCE ◼ Advising and representing BPIAE and Santander for the financing of new Airbus A330-900neos (MSN 1923 & 1910) purchased by Air Senegal ◼ Advising and representing Airbus and Santander for the financing of a new A330-900 for Air Senegal ◼ Airbus A330-900neos (MSN 1923 & 1910) purchased by Air Senegal ◼ Assisting an International Private Bank with its Offshore Wealth Services (OWS) to draft their Conduct Rules for Senegal. ◼ Developing a “Country Manuals” for international banks with respect to Senegalese and WAEMU banking regulations in its strategic cross-border project. ◼ Advising Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited (ICBC) on a hedging arragement in Senegal. ◼ Acting for Lenders on swaps transactions (Cross currency and interest rate swaps). ◼ Advising the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector on extension of global lines of credit (Islamic finance) to banks or leasing companies operating in Chad, Cameroun, Gabon and Senegal. ◼ Acting for Standard Chartered Bank on its USD 400 million loan transaction with a Senegalese telecommunications company. ◼ Advising Cairn Energy with joint venture partners FAR, Conoco Philips and later Woodside on Senegal’s firt off-shore oil discovery. ◼ Acting for Dangote Cement in its 170 million syndicated loan facility from Ecobank and UBA. |