Creation
Cabinet Chauveau was created in 1998 by Jean-François Chauveau, who was
called to the Ivory Coast bar in 1997.
A former member of the firm Klein et Associés (now Klein-Goddard
Associés), Jean-François Chauveau was legal counsel seconded to the
Ivory Coast Minister for the Economy and Finance from 1977 to 1983, then
head of the firm’s French-speaking Africa practice until 1997.
Our vision
A law firm with a multi-disciplinary team of experienced lawyers with
international profiles, capable of understanding a transaction as a
whole rather than adopting an over-specialised, fragmented approach.
The firm is organised in two departments that work closely together: (i)
legal advice and (ii) legal aid/litigation.
Our team
We currently have 4 partners and 9 associates, making us one of the
largest law firms in Abidjan and enabling us to handle cases
quickly.
Our expertise
Multi-disciplinary expertise: we offer our national and multinational
corporate clients the skills and experience of a firm practising
regularly in private business law in the different areas of OHADA law
(company law, law on security interests, general commercial law, law on
businesses in difficulty, law on simplified debt collection procedures,
enforcement proceedings, etc.), law of contract and obligations,
employment law, land and property law, oil and mining law, financial
law, banking law, including, WAEMU law and stock market law (Regional
Securities Exchange), CIMA insurance law, intellectual property law, and
in general all areas relating to business life including, in addition to
the matters covered by OHADA law, the restructuring of companies in
difficulty and the provision of the services of secretary for companies’
decision-making bodies.
A historical specialisation: Cabinet Jean-François Chauveau offers a
historical specialisation in administrative law and public business law
and has longstanding expertise in relations between private businesses
and the State. We have in-depth knowledge and regular practical
experience of the special rules on the functioning of State companies
(sociétés d’Etat), companies in which there is a public-sector holding
(sociétés à participation financière publique) and public establishments
(établissements publics), delegated public services (délégations de
service public), privatisations, public procurement and regulation. More
generally, we regularly work in the different areas of administrative
law and other branches of law as they apply to the relations between
public and private partners (PPP agreements).
As a result, we have built up in-depth experience of public
infrastructure project finance.