For 25 years, Mr. Komla DOVI, Managing Partner, has been developing his expertise in corporate counsel.

He has been coordinating, in various sectors, a performing team of experienced professionals dedicated to accompanying companies of significant size both in counseling and litigation.

He took an oath in July 1988 and entered Mr. DAKO's law-firm, one of the best known and oldest law-firms in Lomé with which he had been collaborating since 1997.

This professional collaboration allowed him to acquire a solid experience in commercial and social matters which has become his main activity.

In 1997, Mr. Komla DOVI founded his law-firm and has been carrying on his activity in these fields.

Mr. Komla DOVI holds a master's degree in law - specialty Judiciary Careers - obtained in 1997 at the Law School of Lome. He has also been trained in Artists and Interpreters' Rights.

Beyond the competences developed in managing litigation of various kinds, today, his track-record brings him to see, in the alternative conflict settlements, a form of less conflicting justice that is to be valued and developed.

Thus, naturally moved by these beliefs and by carefully caring for his customers' needs and by the stakes they are facing, he has been trained as a Mediator and an Arbitrator.

ey are facing, he has been trained as a Mediator and an Arbitrator.

Barrister in Togo since December 2004, Mrs. Marie Essossinam has been an Associate at CABINET DE Me Komla DOVI.

She principally intervenes in social, civil and commercial law litigation.

Mrs. Marie Essossinam had been, from January 2002 to June 2004, legal adviser to the Confederation of Togolese Workers' Trade Unions (CTWTU).