EFFI & Associés Joins ALPi as Group Expands into Francophone WA

Effi & Associés, a business law firm based in Abidjan, has officially become the tenth member firm of Africa Law Practice International (ALPi), a fast-growing Pan-African legal and professional services network.The on-boarding ceremony took place at the offices of Effi & Associés in Abidjan, and marks a major milestone in ALPi’s strategic expansion into Africa, generally, and Francophone West Africa, in particular. With this addition, ALPi now operates in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, South Sudan, Namibia, Mauritius and Côte d’Ivoire.

Founded and led by Dr Serge Effi, Effi & Associés is a corporate and tax law firm based in Abidjan-Plateau, Côte d’Ivoire. Dr Effi holds a Doctorate in Law from Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, with earlier degrees in Economic Law (Université Paris XIII) and the CAPA qualification from the Paris Bar. He is admitted to both the Paris Bar (since 1996) and the Abidjan Bar (since 2006). Before founding his law firm, he worked with Ernst & Young Abidjan and SCP Boineau-Soyer Paris.

The new Côte d’Ivoire member will be formally introduced at the ALPi Annual General Meeting scheduled for February 2026 in Accra, Ghana, where partners from all nine other countries will meet.