10 | Acquisition International December 2025 His extensive work has profoundly influenced the firm’s development in business law, governance advisory, legal reform, and strategic litigation, positioning D2A as a benchmark across the sub-region. He remains one of the driving forces of the firm’s legal engineering practice, bringing exceptional analytical depth and a sustained capacity for innovation. For twenty-five years, D2A has stood as one of Benin’s foremost law firms, distinguished by its mastery of legal engineering, strategic advisory services, and high-level litigation. Established in 2000, the firm was built on a defining ambition: to provide each client — corporations, public institutions, investors, and international organisations — with precise, tailored, and ethically rigorous legal support, firmly rooted in an exceptional command of OHADA business law, economic litigation, and the evolving complexities of the contemporary legal environment. Today, D2A relies on a team of nearly fifteen experienced lawyers and consultants, a highly success rate, and a client base exceeding 1,000 individuals and entities, both in Benin and abroad. Ranked among the Top 50 OHADA law firms, cited by Chambers, and recipient of numerous professional awards, the firm has consolidated its place as a reference within the West African legal sector. Its areas of intervention encompass the full spectrum of corporate activity corporate law and governance operations; high-stakes commercial litigation; banking and finance law; international arbitration (ICC, CCJA, CAMEC, ICSID); tax, labour, civil and white-collar matters; specialised fields including energy, mining, real estate, IP, digital law and maritime law. The firm has also deepened its offering in legal engineering, developing sophisticated and innovative solutions for the structuring of commercial and financial transactions and assisting clients with the legal dimensions of digital transformation. United by the shared goal of providing effective and relevant legal services that exceed even the highest ethical standards, SCPA D2A is renowned across Benin for its ability to meticulously tailor these services to the needs of clients ranging from individuals and companies through to public bodies and international organisations. Whether it is providing its services across business law, financing, debt collection, or any of the other areas mentioned above, the firm prides itself on offering the gold standard of service. Business law in particular is where SCPA D2A shines, this as a result of the emphasis it places on OHADA law. OHADA, or the Organisation for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa, was established by the Treaty of the Harmonization of Business Law in October 1993, during a signing in Mauritius. The aim of OHADA is to create a unified legal framework for the business activities of its member states – of which Benin is just one – enhancing legal and judicial security for investors and companies in the process. Since it was first established more than 30 years ago, OHADA has supported the 17 African countries that are proud to be members through initiatives focusing on everything from promoting trade between them to attracting foreign investments by nurturing a stable legal landscape in these nations and even simplifying business processes through standardised regulations, ultimately making it easier for companies to be set up and their contracts to be enforced. More information on OHADA can be found at its website, linked here. Returning back to the firm itself, its team are experts in every element of OHADA law, so much so that they both teach it at university level and during bar training for those individuals looking to comprise the next generation of legal professionals in Benin and further afield. This, however, is just the beginning of the expertise inherent across this team of highly qualified legal expert and consultants, all of whom are passionate and ready to deliver innovative and reliable solutions to a diverse client base in search of the very best. Efficient and experienced in equal measure, the team are capable of anticipating the needs of their national and international clients alike, resulting in the provision of a strategic and sustainable service that is guaranteed to impress. More than just an empty claim, backing this up is the fact that SCPA D2A has a 99% success rate for cases, with its team of nearly 15 attorneys having served over 10k happy clients in the 25 years since the firm began. Furthermore, a host of accolades and awards testify to its unrivalled excellence. Heading up the team here across many of these areas – with help from both the aforementioned Joseph Djogbenou and Olga Anasside, another of the firm’s senior lawyers – Nicolin Assogba embodies all that is great about Benin’s leading law firm. Named the Leading Corporate & Commercial Lawyer of the Year 2025 – Benin in this feature, it is our pleasure to champion Nicolin as one of the best legal advisors in the region today. More on D2A Société Civile Professionnelle d’Avocats can be found by following the web address below, whereas further details on Nicolin are available here, on LinkedIn. Contact: Nicolin Assogba Company: D2A Société Civile Professionnelle d’Avocats Web Address: https://www.scpad2a.org/
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