Alain KOFFI
International business lawyer
Alain KOFFI is an international business lawyer with over 20 years of experience, specializing in corporate finance and securities regulations and international finance law in developing countries. He has recently worked on Beneficial Ownership Transparency legal framework in the extractive industry and public procurement in West African countries as well as Anti-Money Laundering and Financing Terrorism regulations and KYC requirements in the gaming sector. As UNDP’s Financial Systems Expert and Program Manager for the Payment Program for Ebola Response Workers (PPERW) in Liberia and as part of his functions he conducted a diagnostic of Liberia financial systems infrastructures and a diagnostic on mobile payments and a feasibility study for the possible introduction of a mobile money payment aggregator to develop Digital Financial Services in Liberia. From 2006 to 2008 Alain worked as a legal consultant for the Investigation Section (OAI) of UNDP in New York; where he conducted various investigations on cases of alleged wrongdoings in UNDP field offices in Africa.
Alain Koffi worked a few years as a full-time legal consultant at the Legal Services Department (GECL2) of the African Development Bank in Abidjan and Tunis, where he provided legal services to AfDB’s management in connection with the legal aspects of the bank’s administration and finance issues (preparing, negotiating and implementing contracts related to bond issues, derivatives and treasury operations). Other noticeable achievements include his position as co-head of investment banking for Hudson & Company in Abidjan, where Alain participated in various fund-raising transactions for private and public companies as well as in most privatizations in Ivory Coast, advising major companies in the banking and agro-industry sectors.
Mr. Koffi has an LLM degree specializing in securities regulations and international finance from Georgetown University; in Washington DC, and he is admitted to the New York bar since 1995.