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THERESE DONU, Law Firm was created in Lomé-Togo in March 2021, at the initiative of Maître Thérèse DONU épouse AGBONEGBAN, Lawyer at the Togo Bar since 2012.

After ten years of experience within the law firm MARTIAL AKAKPO & ASSOCIES, as an Associate and then Partner, Ms. Thérèse DONU is committed to launching a modern law firm that adapts to new technologies and offers a personalized welcome and high-level multidisciplinary expertise in order to best meet the needs of local and international clients.

The Firm combines respect for ethical and professional rules with mastery of the practice of the texts in force in Togo.

It has a team of young, ambitious and experienced lawyers and consultants in various disciplines of business law. Placing a point of honor in responsiveness, quality and scrupulous respect for deadlines, the Firm is full of skills necessary to work on all types of missions falling within its field of intervention.

About THERESE DONU

Founded in 2012

50 people in their team


Practice areas
Family
Elder Law
Real Estate
Business
Insurance
Bankruptcy & Debt
Criminal Defense

Languages spoken
French
English

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Practice areas

Family

Planning one's succession is of prime importance, but the devolution of an inheritance also raises questions of contesting a will, conflicts between heirs, misappropriation of inheritance, concealment of inheritance, etc.

This extremely complex law may include the practice of other laws applied to successions. This is the case of tax law, intellectual property law for the successions of authors or artists, private international law in the case of international succession, among others.

Our team of experts advises and supports our clients in the management of their assets both during their lifetime and upon their death.

Likewise, whether they are testators, heirs, legatees, donees or interested third parties (creditors), we provide answers to each of our clients' questions and solutions to their concerns.

In addition, in the event of a divorce, our team of professionals is available to our clients in a listening and support approach for a better choice of the method of breaking the marital bond, whether it be legal separation, amicable or contentious divorce, child custody, the rights to which each spouse can claim, or the liquidation of common property. These areas of law, marked by a certain sensitivity, require a natural predisposition to listen to others. Team members recognized for their great moral and ethical value, make themselves available to do this.

A team of the Firm is also dedicated to the procedures of change or rectification of civil status among others. These procedures obey strict rules and require a mastery of the Code of Persons and Family.

Child Abuse
Child Custody
Child Support
Child Visitation
Collaborative Law
Divorce & Separation
Domestic Violence
Father's Rights
Marriage
Military Divorce
Same Sex & LGBT
Adoption
Annulment

Elder Law

Planning one's succession is of prime importance, but the devolution of an inheritance also raises questions of contesting a will, conflicts between heirs, misappropriation of inheritance, concealment of inheritance, etc.

This extremely complex law may include the practice of other laws applied to successions. This is the case of tax law, intellectual property law for the successions of authors or artists, private international law in the case of international succession, among others.

Our team of experts advises and supports our clients in the management of their assets both during their lifetime and upon their death.

Likewise, whether they are testators, heirs, legatees, donees or interested third parties (creditors), we provide answers to each of our clients' questions and solutions to their concerns.

In addition, in the event of a divorce, our team of professionals is available to our clients in a listening and support approach for a better choice of the method of breaking the marital bond, whether it be legal separation, amicable or contentious divorce, child custody, the rights to which each spouse can claim, or the liquidation of common property. These areas of law, marked by a certain sensitivity, require a natural predisposition to listen to others. Team members recognized for their great moral and ethical value, make themselves available to do this.

A team of the Firm is also dedicated to the procedures of change or rectification of civil status among others. These procedures obey strict rules and require a mastery of the Code of Persons and Family.

Elder Abuse Law
Estate Planning
Guardianship
Nursing Home Abuse
Probate
Trusts
Will & Testament

Real Estate

With land law as one of its specialties, the Thérèse DONU Law Firm advises and assists its clients in securing real estate acquisition and sale transactions through tailored advice and the drafting of deeds. In the context of land disputes, the Firm assists and represents its clients both before the administration in relation to compensation procedures in an expropriation process for public utility reasons and before the judicial authorities with the aim of an action to claim property rights or payment.

In addition, the Thérèse DONU firm works alongside its clients in various ways, including the drafting and review of lease agreements, the recovery of rent and the eviction of unscrupulous tenants.

In addition, the expertise acquired by the Thérèse DONU firm during all its years of practice makes it the ideal Partner for the pre-litigation management of disputes between its clients and their co-contractors, whether they are landowners, lessors, tenants or real estate professionals. Mastery of all the specificities of land and real estate rights ensures optimized protection and defense of clients' rights and interests.

Brokerage
Commercial Real Estate
Foreclosure
Housing, Construction & Development
Land Use & Zoning
Landlord & Tenant
Mortgage
Natural Resources
Real Estate Contracts and Negotiations
Real Estate Due Diligence

Business

Operating in a sector of activity marked by permanent competition and a perpetual search for interests as distinct from each other as possible, commercial companies are subject to strict, comprehensive regulation that is constantly adapting to realities.

With corporate law as one of its specialties, Cabinet Thérèse DONU works alongside its clients to offer them solutions adapted to the specific nature of their activities, whether they are partners, shareholders or company directors.

Through its assistance and advice, the Thérèse DONU firm also provides legal support to companies to ensure that their documents, acts and operations comply with current regulations and has the skills necessary for legal representation of its clients in the event of disputes between partners or shareholders, with partners, employees and the tax and customs authorities, among others.

Accounting & Auditing
Administrative
Admiralty & Maritime
Agriculture
Antitrust
Aviation
Banking & Finance
Board of Investment (BOI)
Business Registration
Communications & Media Law
Contract
Due Diligence
Employer
Environment
Financial Services Regulation
Franchising
Gaming
Government Contract
Government Relations & Lobbying
Health Care
International
International Trade Law
Investment
Legal Document
Licensing
Merger & Acquisition
New Business Formation
Nonprofit & Charitable Organizations
Office Solutions
Oil, Gas & Energy
Securities
Tax
Tax Increment Financing
Transportation
Venture Capital

Insurance

The banking, financial and insurance sector is facing new challenges due to the multiple permanent scientific and technical innovations linked to digitalization and especially to the specificity of the texts in force.

In this rigorous environment evolving at an exponential speed, the Firm continues to update its knowledge through targeted and innovative training. Thanks to its extensive skills, the Firm's team offers specialized and pragmatic assistance to its clients for all issues related to, among other things, access to the capital market, financial planning, project financing, choice of insurance, review of credit agreements, loans and insurance policies through legal advice and due diligence missions.

Bad Faith Insurance
Health insurance
Insurance Defense
Insurance Fraud
Life Insurance
Marine Insurance
Property Insurance
Reinsurance

Bankruptcy & Debt

The plurality of areas it covers makes business law a discipline that is difficult to define for fear of circumscribing it.

The varied profiles of the team members facilitate the Firm's intervention on all aspects of this vast field of business law in order to provide clients with ongoing assistance through sound advice and tailor-made solutions to the problems and difficulties encountered. 

In the context of international negotiations and due to the knowledge acquired by its members in international trade law, personalized advice is given to clients on the choice of incoterms depending on whether they are producers or distributors.

In addition, the Firm intervenes in the context of debt recovery using the most appropriate, fastest and least expensive methods. However, concerned with preserving their relationships with their partners, priority is given to recovery through amicable means.

If necessary, the Firm assists its clients in obtaining protective measures against their debtors in order to preserve their rights or to directly obtain the forced recovery of their debts.

Bankruptcy
Credit Repair
Creditor
Debt & Collection

Criminal Defense

Unlike civil law, which only governs relations between individuals, criminal law governs relations between individuals and society. Thus, it ensures the protection of the individual through respect for public order.

Whether they are perpetrators or victims, the Firm advises and assists them in strict compliance with the rules of criminal procedure, whether during the preliminary investigation, in the investigation or in the trial.

In the event of a road traffic accident, the Firm's team works alongside the insurer to better calculate the victim's rights. Similarly, it supports accident victims, as appropriate, through a proper declaration of the claim while ensuring their full compensation.

Arrests & Searches
Bail Bond Service
Cannabis
Criminal Litigation
Drug Crime
Drunk Driving
DUI & DWI
Juvenile Law
Sex Crime
Speeding & Traffic Ticket
White Collar Crime

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