About
Bahakal Abate is a Partner at Aman & Partners Legal Service LLP in Ethiopia with over 15 years' experience as a lecturer, in-house counsel and legal practitioner advising on investment and regulatory matters, corporate/M&A (including privatization and liberalization), commercial contracts, public procurement, energy, project finance and arbitration. He is a noted adviser on financial services, Fintech, data protection and telecommunications following recent legal reforms and acted as lead partner and local counsel for the Global Partnership for Ethiopia in securing the country's first telecom licence.
Practice areas
Corporate / M&ARegulatoryInvestmentPublic ProcurementEnergyProject FinanceArbitrationFinancial Services
Office
Expertise
FintechData ProtectionTelecommunicationsPrivatization & LiberalizationPublic ProcurementEnergyProject Finance
Education
- LL.M, International Dispute Settlement Law - Université de Genève, Switzerland (2010–2011)
- LL.M, International Economic and Business Law - Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (2009–2010)
- LL.B - Alemaya University
Languages
AmharicEnglish