Aboubacar Sidiki Kanté is a lawyer admitted to the Guinean and Paris Bars and founder of ASK AVOCATS. He advises on several aspects of Guinean and EU law, including, but not limited to, mining law and OHADA business. He began his practice in the Energy and Natural Resources department of the renowned law firm Jeantet in Paris. He holds two LLM Master’s degrees from Washington University St. Louis School of Law, a top 20 law school in the United States: the first in American law and the second in negotiations and alternative dispute resolution. He works in English and French, and also speaks several West African languages (Wolof, Bambara, Soussou, Malinke).