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New Togo-based firm launched by highly experienced business advisory and disputes lawyer Edem Zotchi
With nearly 20 years experience at the crossroads of the energy, infrastructure, and financing sectors, leading Togolese lawyer Edem Zotchi last week announced the establishment of a new law firm, Zotchi Avocats, based in Lomé, Togo’s capital city.
The launch of new firm Zotchi Avocats this month is designed to give full substance to highly experienced Togolese business lawyer Edem Zotchi’s vision of a legal profession anchored in the realities of the African continent, agile in legal complexity, and deeply committed to the economic and social transformation of Africa.
Admitted to the National Bar of Togo in 2006, Edem Zotchi specialises in energy law, investment law, international arbitration, and project finance. A Recommended Lawyer by Chambers & Partners, he has advised investment funds, banks, private sponsors, and public entities on the legal structuring, award, and financing of strategic projects, particularly in the energy and infrastructure sectors.
He has also developed expertise in both advisory and litigation matters on various issues in corporate law, labour law, and sports law.
Most recently Head of the Legal Advisory and Assistance department at major Togolese law firm Martial Akakpo et associés, where he practiced for 20 years, Edem Zotchi has now established Zotchi Avocats with his ethos of a rigorous, demanding, yet collaborative and accessible approach to law, focused on the economic impact, compliance, and legal security of projects in Africa and beyond.
Zotchi shared with Africa Legal that his new firm brings together a multidisciplinary team of lawyers, legal experts and support professionals, committed to offering each client high-level, responsive, human and impact-oriented legal expertise.
He is joined at Zotchi Avocats by barrister Folly Gnavo Attivi, who has more than 15 years of expertise in litigation and consulting, and will head the new firm’s Litigation & Business Law Department. With local and international postgraduate degrees and legal experience, Attivi plays a key role in the firm’s strategic development, and will actively take part in the mentoring of young associates, some of who have begun with the firm already and others who will join in November and in future, while “embodying the values of integrity, excellence and responsibility that underpin the law firm's identity.”
The new firm Zotchi Avocats will assist economic players from the European, American, and Asian continents wishing to invest or operate in Africa, as well as African companies looking for a secure legal presence on the international market.