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Institute of Advanced Technological and Commercial Studies

IHETC Business School

Business Law and OHADA Compliance

The law that actually governs companies across seventeen countries.

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Entry level
Bachelor's degree
Award
Bachelor's degree
Duration
3 years
Actual work
20 h/week
Pace
Compatible with a job
Tuition
5 200 000 GNF per year

The OHADA area covers seventeen states and a unified business law few local lawyers master in full. This programme takes it as its main object: companies, security interests, debt recovery, insolvency, arbitration. It adds compliance, now the entry point to the profession — an in-house lawyer today spends more time preventing a breach than arguing one after the fact.

Learning objectives

  • Incorporate a company and meet its obligations across the OHADA area
  • Draft and negotiate an enforceable commercial contract
  • Run a debt recovery through to conclusion
  • Build a compliance framework that withstands an inspection

Curriculum

1800 hours · 180 credits

Year 1540 hours

  1. OHADA company law

    280 hours · 28 credits

    Company forms, incorporation, governance, capital, dissolution, directors' liability

  2. Contracts and obligations

    260 hours · 26 credits

    Contract formation, essential clauses, warranties, breach, remedies

Year 2500 hours

  1. Security interests and recovery

    260 hours · 26 credits

    Pledges, mortgages, guarantees, payment orders, enforcement

  2. Insolvency and arbitration

    240 hours · 24 credits

    Prevention, restructuring, liquidation, arbitration clauses, arbitral procedure

Year 3600 hours

  1. Compliance and anti-money-laundering

    280 hours · 28 credits

    Risk mapping, know your customer, suspicious activity reporting, sanctions

  2. Corporate taxation

    200 hours · 20 credits

    Profit taxes, value added tax, withholdings, tax audits

  3. Workshop and placement

    120 hours · 12 credits

    A complete compliance file for a real company · twelve-week placement · publicly defended

Cross-curricular, throughout160 hours

  1. Cross-curricular base

    160 hours · 16 credits

    Legal English, opinion-writing methodology, legal research

Real prerequisite

What follows is assumed and will not be explained again. If most of it is foreign to you, this is not the right entry point — better to know now than at the final assessment.

No legal prerequisite. Sustained, precise reading is essential, however: law is worked in the text.

Entry requirements

  • Secondary school qualification, or experience in a legal environment
  • Comprehension exercise on a legal text
  • Motivation interview

Career outcomes

  • In-house lawyer
  • Compliance officer
  • Legal assistant in private practice
  • Contentious recovery officer
  • Compliance analyst in a financial institution

Skills acquired

  • OHADA law
  • Contract drafting
  • Debt recovery
  • Compliance
  • Arbitration
  • Taxation

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