Supporting shoppers working within the CEMAC area, trusted authorized adviser Daoudou Mohammad has been appointed as Director of Tax&Authorized at CLG’s Pointe-Noire workplace (www.CLGGlobal.com). Mohammad brings a wealth of demonstrated experience that might be instrumental to the legislation agency’s Africa-wide practices, because the Republic of Congo and wider Central African area sees fast progress within the vitality sector.
Mohammad holds over 15 years of expertise in enterprise and tax legislation, creating a stable competence in dealing with advanced authorized points and offering efficient shopper help. Previous to becoming a member of CLG, Mohammad served as Senior Supervisor at PwC’s Tax&Authorized Division in Pointe-Noire, managing the tax and authorized coordination middle for Francophone African nations, supervising high quality and threat administration operations, making certain authorized due diligence and supervising restructuring operations for teams of firms – together with mergers and acquisitions and firm transfers – amongst different key obligations.
Having additionally held a managerial function at PwC’s South Africa workplace, Mohammad maintains an in-depth information of various worldwide programs and compliance with the best requirements of apply and repair supply, adapting to various authorized and cultural environments. Specializing in enterprise, tax and labor legislation, in addition to international alternate rules and mental property, his multidisciplinary background represents a significant asset to CLG and can allow the supply of built-in options to shopper wants and up-to-date recommendation on the newest legislative and regulatory developments. Mohammad holds a twin Grasp’s Diploma in Mental Property Legislation and Enterprise Legislation from Cameroon’s College of Yaoundé II.
The Republic of Congo is within the midst of a significant funding drive, because it goals to speed up oil and fuel exploration and rework into a significant LNG hub on the again of a number of large-scale LNG export tasks and new exploration and appraisal drilling actions. To draw additional funding and streamline regulatory processes, the nation is launching a complete fuel code, not too long ago permitted a brand new Fuel Grasp Plan led by nationwide oil firm Société nationale des pétroles du Congo, and plans to determine a devoted nationwide fuel firm. Consequently, specialised tax, authorized and regulatory advisory experience is required by firms working within the Congo to navigate evolving vitality sector laws.
CLG represents an skilled staff of authorized professionals, providing an in-depth understanding of African markets and a versatile and revolutionary strategy to assembly the varied wants of its shoppers. Serving as the popular skilled companies associate in Africa, CLG is supplied to supply on-the-ground help throughout a number of sectors and has a wealthy historical past of spearheading transformative oil and fuel transactions throughout the continent, offering top-tier authorized companies and strategic recommendation to shoppers throughout the vitality spectrum, and guiding shoppers by means of advanced regulatory landscapes and contractual negotiations. Along with the Republic of Congo, CLG operates in South Africa, Nigeria, South Sudan, Mauritius, Ghana, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique and Germany.
“Navigating native legal guidelines, together with taxation on oil and fuel revenues, production-sharing agreements, and environmental rules, calls for thorough understanding to make sure compliance and optimize returns. We’re excited to have Daoudou Mohammad head up CLG’s tax and authorized companies in Pointe-Noire, who gives professional steering on mitigating dangers, avoiding pricey authorized disputes, and making certain that investments are structured to satisfy each native obligations and worldwide requirements,” states Zion Adeoye, CEO of CLG.
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