Liliana Bakayoko

Liliana Bakayoko is an Attorney at Law at the Paris and Sofia Bars, a Doctor of Law and a former Professor of Law.

She has 20 years of experience as a lawyer and ten years of experience teaching law.

Liliana Bakayoko has been honored with several international awards. She received the prestigious title of Top International Business Lawyer of the Year for 2024 from the International Association of Top Professionals, based in New York. She has won the International Elite 100 Global Award for Business Lawyer of the Year – Global. She was also named International Business Lawyer of the Year in France – 2024 at the Global Law Experts Annual Awards. She was designated Leading International Business Lawyer of the Year – Paris at the 2023 Leading Adviser Awards by Acquisition International. She has been selected by Leaders in Law and Advisory Excellence as the exclusively recommended expert in international business law for France on a global level. World’s Leaders Magazine featured her in its annual listing of ‘World’s Most Influential Women Leaders in Law, 2024′, highlighting “exceptional women law experts possessing unique traits and ideologies that helped them to attain a successful stature in their legal sector”.

She has valuable know-how in cross-border transactions and business-government relations.

She is a Consultant in International Investment, Government Relations, and Business Development for a major U.S. company that provides corporate and government clients with expert-led, technology-driven risk management solutions.

She has also built solid experience in information technology law (cyberlaw). She has significantly increased her knowledge in this field while advising one of the world’s leading information technology companies.

Liliana Bakayoko’s law firm provides legal services mainly in business law, IT law, intellectual property law, corporate law and international private law.

As entrepreneurship is a multifaceted activity, the law firm addresses your concerns related to the following areas:

• the conclusion and execution of contracts relating to your business;
• the protection of your digital activities;
• the protection of your intellectual property rights (trademark and patent registrations, literary and artistic property);
• the internationalization of your business;
• the choice and reorganization of your professional entities (sole trader or companies);
• amicable dispute resolution;
• representation before courts and arbitral tribunals.

The law firm provides services that are well-suited to the needs of its clients by offering optimal and efficient legal solutions.

Awards

• Top International Business Lawyer of the Year – awarded by the International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP).
• International Business Lawyer of the Year in France — 2024 – the Global Law Experts Annual Awards.
• Leading International Business Lawyer of the Year — Paris – Acquisition International’s Leading Adviser Awards 2023.
• Business Lawyer of the Year – Global – awarded by International Elite 100

“Liliana Bakayoko: A visionary of international business law and digitalization

Highly qualified in international business law, Liliana Bakayoko has built solid experience as a lawyer, teacher and consultant. Her exemplary career and ability to adapt to the digitalization of the legal sector make her a key figure in this field.” – FORBES.