The network expands African foothold with two new members from Nigeria and Senegal

The network expands African foothold with two new members from Nigeria and Senegal

Nigeria and Senegal add to the other Lexing African countries:  Egypt, Ivory Coast, Morocco, Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Africa. With these two new countries, the network currently consists of about 40 members worldwide.

The Lexing® network in Africa

Nigeria and Senegal join the other African members of the Lexing® network: South Africa, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Morocco and DR Congo. The network is now present in over thirty countries worldwide.

The Lexing® network, which held its general meeting on 2023 in Cape Town, South Africa, and took part in the Africa Tech Summit on the same occasion, is focusing on the development of personal data protection laws in the various African countries, as well as on artificial intelligence and legal cobotics.

Senegal: LPS Lawyers joins the Lexing® International Lawyers Network®

LPS LAWYERS is a bilingual (French-English) full-service law firm based in Dakar, Senegal.

Its practice areas include:

• Litigation, Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution;
• Corporate and Finance;
• Energy and Natural Resources;
• Information and Communication Technologies and Intellectual Property.

Its secured and digital working platform allows it to remain in permanent contact with its customers and address their expectations as instantly as possible

Léon Patrice Sarr, the firm’s managing partner, will represent the firm in the networkr.

Léon Patrice Sarr is a lawyer in Information Technology and Communication:

• Electronic Transactions;
• Electronic Evidence;
• Data Protection;
• Cybercryminality;
• Intellectual Property;
• Cryptology;
• Electronic Payments;
• Électronic Advertising.

Other skills include: labor law, corporate law, debt collection, law of persons and family law, criminal law, commercial law.

Nigeria: Streamsowers and Kӧhn joins the Lexing® International Lawyers Network

Streamsowers and Köhn is a full-service commercial law firm with its main office in Lagos, and branch offices in Abuja and Port-Harcourt, Nigeria.

Its practice areas include:

• Aviation;
• Corporate and Commercial law, including Telecoms, Media, and Technology (TMT);
• Dispute Resolution;
• Energy, Natural Resources and Environmental Law;
• Competition Law.
• Legislative Oversight and Governmental Activities.

Chukwuyere Izuogu will represent the firm in the network

Chukwuyere Izuogu is a member of the Firm’s Corporate Commercial Group where he heads the Telecoms, Media, and Technology (TMT) Practice.

Chukwuyere is a subject matter expert on substantive issues of competition law and TMT law.

He assists clients by providing strategic legal advice and designing programmes to ensure compliance with their obligations under competition law and in the TMT industry.

Some of the works undertaken by Chukwuyere include, for example:

• Advising an international social media network on an ongoing basis on several aspects of Nigerian law that includes applicable rules for net neutrality, cross-border data transfers and lawful basis for online behavioural advertising;
• Advised a licensed satellite telecommunications services provider on the procedural requirements for and substantive assessment involved in notifying a merger to the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) and the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the communications regulator;

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