Business Development Manager, John W Ffooks & Co

I am responsible for driving business growth within the firm. My role is to develop a network of contacts to attract new clients, research new market opportunities and oversee growth projects, making sales projections and forecasting revenue, in line with projected income.

John W Ffooks & Co is a full-service corporate, commercial law firm with offices in Madagascar, Mauritius and Senegal and with associated offices across the region, providing support to business and industry across French-speaking Africa. Our multilingual legal team, comprised of seven resident Partners and twelve associates, is the only legal practice in the region with a combination of Napoleonic and English law expertise – making us the obvious choice when it comes to international transactions in Francophone Africa. Our particular strengths are in assisting inward investors into the region and the rest of French-speaking Africa and in reconciling their common-law understanding of business with the realities of working under legal systems derived from the Napoleonic Code. Our expertise in advising local and international clients has earned us the trust of listed and unlisted domestic as well as international corporations, banks and financial institutions, light and heavy industrial firms, state-owned enterprises and government departments. We also advise on legal issues in French-speaking Africa, including Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Mali, Niger, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Senegal and Togo. With associated offices throughout the region we are able to service clients in their host countries and home jurisdictions. This makes us better able to respond to clients’ needs at every level, from on-the-ground operational matters to head office issues. The net result is a saving of time, effort and cost – things at a great premium for most in house counsel.