What We Do
Welcome to Dikuba Law Firm, where we provide expert legal guidance tailored to your unique needs. Located in the heart of Douala at 319 rue Mandessi-Bell, we're committed to delivering quality service and achieving successful outcomes for our clients. Let us navigate the complexities of the legal landscape for you.
“Every client deserves more than just legal representation — they deserve an advocate who listens, understands, and fights for their best interests.”
L.A.Paola Ndolli Adoma
Real Estate
Our firm has a reputation for executing complex real estate deals with the accuracy and speed. Many are the first of their kind. Our real estate specialist is often the driver of transactions in which our first class corporate, finance and tax lawyers play important supporting roles.
Our client base spread between owners, developers and institutional investors.
Trust And Chattels
The firm advises on trust and succession issues. We advise with regard to all aspects of Charity Law and related taxation issues.
We handle contentious issues within the firm, with advice from our litigation colleagues. This ensures that all disputes receive expert attention from specialist practitioners.
Insurance And Reinsurance
Rapid consolidation within the industry, a swathe of new legislation and a tightened regulatory regime make it imperative for insurance companies to take timely, commercial and thorough legal advice. It is our breadth of knowledge, geographical coverage and expertise in the financial institutions sector which enables us to provide comprehensive and first class advice to clients in this field.
Our involvement in innovative transactions in the sector by means of subordinated debt and securitisation. We have substantial insurance tax practice which allows us to provide tax advice to clients in an area traditionally dominated by accountancy firms. Our collective expertise allows us to service our clients’ corporate tax and regulatory work without the involvement of accountants.
Our insurance litigation team handles complex, high value and high profile claims, frequently with an international element. We are involved in aviation, banking, energy and directors’ and officers’ insurance. The team also includes our reinsurance practice which handles all forms of reinsurance disputes. Our regulatory group provides risk management advice, as well as advising on all aspects of investigations.
A strong broker practice, insurance insolvency practice and the thriving defendant personal injury practice complete the picture. The firm usually works with insurers and re-insurers, as well as major insured companies and their captive insurers and brokers.
Media And Entertainment
The pace of regulatory change, heightened competition and convergence have created an environment which calls for media lawyers with heavyweight corporate, contentious and regulatory expertise and the ability to handle the largest cross-border media work. Our firm can offer this and more.
TAX
Our firm is constantly devising fresh technical and workable solutions to our clients’ problems by having a sound understanding of the commercial background to the matter in hand. We aim to work in partnership with our clients as their ongoing trusted advisers.
Our non-contentious tax advice covers international transactional and advisory work, including:
- Mergers and Acquisitions, joint ventures and corporate reorganisations
- Banking, structured finance and corporate recovery
- Investment funds
- Real Estate investment and development
- VAT and Duties.
We also developed a niche for insurance tax advice. This is a complex and highly specialized area.
The firm’s reputation for dispute resolution is replicated in our tax practice. Our combination of tax expertise and dispute resolution experience enables us to help clients resolve disputes out of court whilst at the same time preparing for litigation, should it become unavoidable.
Finance
Our debt recovery and finance practice advises on both domestic and international transactions, including acquisition and real estate finance, project finance, securitisation, capital markets, and corporate recovery. We serve a balanced client base of borrowers and lenders, known for our broad transactional insight and ability to manage complex deal structures.
A key focus of our strategy is expanding across growth markets in Central and West Africa. In challenging financing environments, our integrated litigation support ensures clients are protected and well-positioned to navigate risk.
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Environmental And Health Safety
The environmental and health safety practice draws on a wide body of expertise within the firm to provide risk management advice and solutions to meet the ever-increasing requirements of our clients.
We provide a wide range of stand-alone advice on issues as diverse as directors’ liabilities under environmental and health and safety laws across a broad range of industries operating both in Cameroon and internationally.
Sports & Leisure
The leisure and sport industry is one of the most dynamic sectors of the global economy, requiring cross-border legal advice across multiple areas of law. Our international leisure and sport practice supports clients across a broad range of industries, including travel and tourism, casinos and gaming, hospitality, health clubs, entertainment venues, and professional sports.
Recognizing the rapid growth and complexity of the sports sector, we have developed a dedicated sports law group. Our team provides specialist advice on regulatory and disciplinary matters, sponsorship deals, broadcasting and media rights, and the structuring or restructuring of sports governing bodies.
Our practice draws on expertise from across the firm—including corporate, dispute resolution, real estate, and regulatory law—to provide comprehensive legal support tailored to the commercial realities of the leisure and sport industries.
Transport Shipping & Aviation
We advise on transport legal matters across aircraft, rolling stock and ship acquisition and financing, through flotation, mergers and acquisitions and capital markets activity. We also advise on regulatory, environmental, planning and infrastructure.
Our firm understands the shipping industry. Due to the breadth of our experience, we can deal with any shipping related issue, from the most complex structured and leasing transaction, marine incident leading to litigation or arbitration, to the more straight forward sale and purchase transaction, charter party negotiation or cargo claim.
Corporate
Our firm offers market leading capacity on public and private mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, corporate governance, initial public offerings, equity issues, projects and tax.
Our clients are also able to draw upon the formidable reputation of our dispute resolution practice on transactions where management risk is a key value. For further information please contact: Kizito N. DIKUBA (Dikuba Law Firm).
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
DIKUBA LAW FIRM is a leading commercial litigation practice in Cameroon. Successfully resolving complex national and international disputes for our clients is the practice’s forte and we are the advisers of choice for some of the country’s best known businesses.
Increasingly, litigation is no longer seen as the sole resource of clients seeking legal remedies to protect or defend their commercial position. We have a distinguished broad-based international arbitration practice. We are also responsive to clients’ needs to seek other alternative means of dispute resolution, such as mediation.
We provide expert specialist dispute resolution advice in areas such as employment, personal injury, health and safety, fraud, partnership disputes and professional negligence and also work very closely with clients to avoid disputes in the first place. Our dispute resolution expertise includes helping clients reduce their exposure to transaction related litigation and to regulatory risk investigations.
As a firm we are strongly committed to the development of our advocacy practice.
