Expertise illuminating the transformation of African business law.

Corporate organisation is a recurring theme in Professor Mayatta Ndiaye Mbaye’s scholarship. From corporate groups to cross-border restructuring, his work examines the relationship between an enterprise, its decision-making bodies and its legal environment. It provides a structured perspective on directors’ powers and the interests of shareholders and third parties.

His contributions on delegated authority, corporate dissolution and the application of OHADA company law in the Democratic Republic of the Congo connect legal analysis with practical difficulties in applying the rules. This relationship between scholarship and practice gives his expertise depth grounded in research, teaching and professional dialogue.

Preventing and addressing business distress is an important strand of his scholarship. His work addresses preventive arrangements, the organisation of insolvency proceedings and the powers of judicial actors. It connects business continuity, the treatment of liabilities and the practical implementation of legal mechanisms.

His publications on business rescue during the pandemic and the applicable law following OHADA’s 2015 reform illuminate complementary questions: responses to crisis and the precise interpretation of applicable regimes. His contribution supports an understanding of proceedings whose effectiveness depends on both knowledge of the rules and their implementation.

Alternative dispute resolution connects doctrinal reflection with a commitment to legal education in his career. His contributions examine its place in resolving disputes and the development of OHADA instruments. The aim is to make these mechanisms understandable while preserving their distinctions and implementation requirements.

His scientific editorship of L’arbitrage OHADA en questions & réponses and La médiation OHADA en questions & réponses, published in 2022, reflects this contribution to legal education. Coordinated by Annick T. Béatrice Kinsi, these collective guides extend the relationship between research and professional training developed during his leadership of ERSUMA.

Transaction security depends on the quality of information and the reliability of professional practice. In his work on property transactions in Senegal, the Professor examines land information and the relationship between notaries and public administration. This approach places legal rules alongside the practical conditions in which transactions take place.

His contributions on the general principles of notarial practice and their application by African notaries extend this reflection. His experience coordinating the notarial law option of a master’s programme at UCAD informs an expertise in which education, legal analysis and attention to practice complement one another.

Digital change affects legal professionals’ working methods as well as the frameworks within which companies make decisions. The Professor addresses these developments through African notarial practice and remote meetings of corporate governing bodies. His publications place new uses within a legal reflection attentive to their implementation.

His work on meetings of corporate bodies during the pandemic complements his article on the digital transformation of legal professions. This contribution provides a perspective on innovation not as an end in itself, but as a change in practice to be understood in relation to legal requirements and reliable exchanges.

Legal integration runs through both his scholarship and his institutional experience. The interaction of regional systems, corporate mobility and the application of business law connect scientific analysis with exchanges between institutions, universities and economic stakeholders.

Since taking office as Permanent Secretary of OHADA in September 2023, he has contributed to the Organisation’s coordination and representation within its collective framework. His contribution to discussions at the Palais du Peuple in Kinshasa on 29 October 2026, concerning national measures complementing the Uniform Acts, illustrates this focus on effective implementation. His foreword to the volume on OHADA’s fourth decade extends the dialogue through scholarly publishing.