Strongly Experienced and Expert Team

We assist our clients on multiple legal, tax, customs, and business issues

Our Main Commitments

Direct Dedication

Full and direct dedication of experienced partners to their clients which allows a higher quality of service and more responsiveness. Flexible structure allowing much more competitive fees.

Assisting our clients “from A to Z”: we actively intervene in all the processes for which we assist our clients with, since the very start (organization, preparation, anticipation, development of strategies) until their definitive closing.

Comprehensive Consulting

Providing comprehensive and detailed tax, legal and business advisory, consulting and assistance services, regarding domestic and regional (OHADA, CEMAC, etc.) laws and regulations.

Best Advices

Advising on the best way to mitigate/avoid any potential conflicts, as well as highlighting relevant tax and legal advantages or opportunities that there may be available, depending on the specific activities of our clients in the country.

Cost Reduction

Obtaining complete elimination or substantial reduction of undue amounts claimed by the Administration in the framework of Audits, Inspections, or Controls in strict compliance with the provisions of the applicable laws and regulations, avoiding in most cases they need for starting Court processes.

The Partners

Sébastien Lechêne

Spent +20 years assisting multinational companies including +16 years leading PwC in Equatorial Guinea (after spending several years in other African countries). He also assisted many clients in many other African countries (as OHADA countries, South Africa, Mauritius, etc.). He is a member of the AIPN.

He has assisted many major and junior companies throughout Africa (Exxon Mobil, Hess, Marathon, Noble, Ophir, Glencore, CNOOC, PetroSA, Tullow, Weatherford, Baker Hughes, Schlumberger, SBM, etc.) on a whole range of issues, such as drafting and negotiation of Oil & Gas agreements and transactions, tax planning, assistance during tax audits, analysis, registration of companies, the introduction of national partners, etc.

Javier Iñiguez

Has 9+ years of experience within the Oil & Gas sector.

He has assisted the main Oil & Gas operators and subcontractors in the Industry (such as Tullow Oil, Gunvor, CHC Helicopter, Tidewater, Tuboscope, Baker Hughes, Ophir, Murphy Oil, Seacor, REPASA, GE Offshore Services, Halliburton, etc.) and specializes in the following areas:

Assistance in tax audits, tax planning, corporate restructuring and due diligence, negotiation and amendment of Contracts (PSCs, Umbrella Agreements), settlement of disputes, registration of companies, the introduction of national partners.