The problem
Distance costs more than risk.
You are reading a high-potential market — Cameroon, DRC, CEMAC — from an office thousands of kilometres away. Business law there is unified (OHADA), but its application is local. Reliable information does not travel through the channels you know. And a badly chosen partner costs more than a missed deal.
17
states under a unified business law — the OHADA space
OHADA
6
CEMAC states — our natural ground
CEMAC
2022
CEMAC regulation opening Islamic finance in the zone
COBAC · CEMAC
The principle
An anchor, not a commission
Here it is a mandate: your institution mandates and pays us for work rendered to you, not to a third party. We take no commission on the transactions we bring you — it is the only way to guarantee that a deal we judge bad, we tell you so.
That is the difference from the rest of this space: elsewhere, the client company pays. Here, you do — because you are the one we serve, and our independence of judgement is only worth something if it belongs to you.
What we operate
An outsourced OHADA desk
Origination & market reading
We source the transactions that match your criteria, and we tell you what the market does not say.
Local due diligence & entry structuring
On-the-ground verification, OHADA-compliant structuring, interface with authorities and local partners.
Portfolio surveillance
Execution monitoring, alert detection, regular reporting — you are not flying blind from abroad.
Access to Gulf capital
The 2022 CEMAC regulation opened the zone to Islamic finance. We structure AAOIFI-compliant operations — IsDB, ICD, ITFC.
How we work
We become your presence
Not a consultant who delivers a report and disappears: a permanent counterpart, on the ground, who answers when you call.
We absorb the complexity
OHADA law, local authorities, SYSCOHADA financial statements, actual practice. You take the decision; we carry the ground.
We tell you no
A high-potential market is not a risk-free market. An anchoring mandate is worth first for the transactions it spares you.
Our reference frameworks
For an institution, a signature commits. The firm, its team, its working standards and its mandates are documented — due diligence runs on us too.
See the firm →Institutional questions
What institutions ask us
The Letter
The Letter — international investors edition
Our analyses reserved for institutions: the real regulatory frame, land title, the foreign exchange regime, and what nobody puts in writing before committing capital. Addressed to a small circle of executives.
Talk to the firm →The Letter is received by invitation: we choose its readership. Write to us if you would like to discuss it.
Discuss an anchoring mandate
Tell us what you are looking for in the zone. We will tell you what exists, what does not, and what it would take to go in.