The American international law firm Orrick has recruited Yacouba Coulibaly, formerly Senior Manager in the legal department of Afreximbank, the pan-African import-export bank, for its affiliate office in Ivory Coast, Orrick-RCI.
Yacouba Coulibaly has a long experience in financing projects in Africa, in infrastructure (road, rail, airport), energy, agriculture, gas and oil, etc.
Formerly of Hogan Lovells in Paris, he is the second associate who joins the Orrick-RCI team in the last six months, after the arrival of Patricia Amand, legal advisor, specialized in regulation in the telecommunications sector and ICT. Before joining Orrick, she worked at the National Agency for the Universal Telecommunication-ICT Service (ANSUT).
Orrick RCI now has seven lawyers in Abidjan. Opened in 2014, Orrick RCI is the only affiliated office of an international firm in West Africa.
