NYA & Co. Law Firm

Based in Douala with a presence in Paris and Luxembourg, NYA & Co. (hereinafter the "Firm") is an international and pan-African business law firm offering a wide range of legal, regulatory and transactional services, focusing on both the accessibility and the quality of its offer to its clients. Our services are aimed at companies of all sizes (multinationals, local companies, large corporations, SMEs to start-ups), of all types of capital (public or private), for-profit or non-profit, as well as high-potential individuals, to provide them with comprehensive assistance in business law.

The Firm's clients include public and para-public institutions, commercial companies (including SMEs and start-ups), telecommunications and technology companies, financial institutions, oil and gas companies, mining companies, international and non-governmental organizations as well as regulatory bodies.

With the dual African and European professional culture of its members, its practice goes beyond the borders of its country of residence Cameroon. This multi-jurisdictional competence allows the firm to better understand the international issues of its local and international clients and to offer them a service in accordance with international standards.

OUR CLIENTS

The client base is composite and comes from various countries.

The client portfolio is characterized by the presence of companies, investors and promoters of individual projects in extremely varied sectors such as Banking, Energy, Finance in all its aspects (market finance, participative financing, private equity), Natural Resources (Mining, Oil, Gas), Digital Technology, Real Estate, Infrastructure and Services, Infrastructure, Entertainment, Large Industries Hotel and Tourism.

We accompany them on their operations within all the countries of the CEMAC sub-region, some countries of the ECOWAS sub-region (Ivory Coast, Benin) and in the rest of Africa, Europe (France, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg), America (United States) and Asia (Singapore and United Arab Emirates).

OUR LANGUAGES

The team is also multilingual. During our work, we interact mainly in French and English. Some of our team members are also fluent in German and moderate in Spanish, which makes us suitable for clients of these languages.

OUR TEAM

The Firm is composed of lawyers and attorneys at law from multiple jurisdictions including the bars of Paris, Cameroon, Luxembourg and Rwanda and with experience in several countries (France, United Kingdom, Scotland, Cameroon, Rwanda, Luxembourg, Congo Brazzaville, Congo Kinshasa, Cote d’Ivoire, Gabon, Germany, Chad, Central African Republic and Nigeria).

OUR EXPERTISE

The Firm has considerable experience in cross border transactions in corporate law, commercial law, investment law, energy and mining law, private equity, banking, finance and capital markets, PPPs, IP/IT, real estate and regulatory, both in advisory and litigation matters, acquired within major institutions and companies for more than 40 cumulative years, in French, Luxembourg, European, English, Ohada, Cameroonian, OAPI and CEMAC laws.

OUR NETWORK

The Firm has a large network of lawyers, experts and external consultants in order to guarantee a global and state-of-the-art service to its clients.

It notably has a presence or best friends in:

• Paris (a corresponding Firm);
• Luxembourg;
• Cote d’Ivoire;
• Nigeria;
• Rwanda;
• Ghana;
• London and
• Congo Kinshasa.