Compliance
Bringing your company into compliance.
Securing your company wherever regulation exposes it — from software to data, from intellectual property to filing, employment and anti-money-laundering obligations.
Compliance is not a constraint to be endured: it is a protection to be built.
Many companies in the OHADA region are exposed without knowing it: unprotected intangible assets, ignored filing obligations, missing internal frameworks. These blind spots only reveal themselves at the worst moment — an inspection, a dispute, a blocked transaction. Anticipating always costs less than repairing.
The six areas
Six grounds on which your company is exposed.
Presented on an equal footing. Each addresses a real risk and is the subject of dedicated legal and regulatory support.
Turning software into a legally and regulatorily secure asset, from its qualification to its licences.
Software is not just a tool: depending on what it does, it becomes a regulated object. A payment application, a financial service, a solution that processes data or embeds an innovation do not fall under the same regimes or authorities. Qualifying it before launch avoids blockage, licence refusal or after-the-fact challenge.
- Regulatory qualification : determining the regimes and obligations the software triggers.
- Licences and filings : preparing and steering procedures before the competent authorities.
- Rights and ownership : licences, code assignment, ownership of developments.
- Digital contracts : development, publishing, hosting, services.
Identifying, protecting and monetising all intangible assets, well beyond the trademark alone.
A company constantly creates intangible value: name, logo, creations, content, software, innovation, know-how. That value often remains invisible and unprotected — until a competitor copies it, files it before you, or a sale reveals it was never secured.
- Identify : asset audit — industrial property (trademarks, patents, designs) and copyright (works, software, content, databases).
- Protect : strategy across the right territories, notably via OAPI (one filing, 17 countries). Nilaura designs and steers; the filing is made through a licensed partner agent.
- Monetise : licences, assignments, IP clauses in contracts, valuation in fundraising or sale, handling of infringements.
Bringing your personal-data processing into line, starting with the mandatory filing formalities.
As soon as a company collects data (customers, prospects, employees), it is in principle required to complete filing formalities with the competent authority — before any other measure. This is the founding act of data compliance, and the most massively ignored obligation.
- Filing formalities : declarations and authorisation requests before the competent authority — the bedrock of the framework.
- Processing mapping : data, purposes and flows.
- Documentary compliance : records, information notices, consents.
- Over time : processors, updates, support in the event of an inspection.
Identifying and declaring your company’s beneficial owners, in line with your obligations.
Companies in the OHADA region must identify and declare the natural persons who actually control them. The real challenge: tracing sometimes complex ownership chains — cascading holdings, cross-shareholdings — to identify who controls, in law as in fact.
- Identification : determining beneficial owners under the legal criteria, including complex chains.
- Register : creating and maintaining the register of beneficial owners.
- Filings : completion and updating with the competent authority.
- Consistency : alignment with the ownership structure and the reality of control.
Bringing your company into line with labour law and preparing for inspection.
Contracts, registrations, mandatory registers, posting obligations, procedures: labour law is dense and rigorously enforced. A compliant company protects its executives as well as its employees, and faces the labour inspectorate with serenity rather than urgency.
- Employment compliance audit : review of the company’s obligations.
- Contracts and registers : bringing contracts and mandatory registers into compliance.
- Inspection readiness : anticipating inspections and sensitive points.
- Internal procedures : hiring, termination, discipline.
Equipping your organisation with anti-money-laundering and counter-terrorist-financing frameworks.
Certain activities are legally required to implement vigilance frameworks. Beyond the obligation, a solid framework protects the company against the risk of being used, unknowingly, as a channel for illicit flows.
- Applicability : assessing the obligations applicable to the activity.
- Due diligence : know-your-customer and transaction monitoring.
- Internal framework : policies, internal control, support for the compliance function.
- Training : raising teams’ awareness of vigilance reflexes.
Who this offer is for
A protection for every exposure.
Organisations seeking to control their regulatory risk and protect their intangible assets as well as their operations.
Founders of software, platforms and online services who must qualify and secure their activity before launch.
Executives intent on covering their filing obligations and protecting their liability.
Compliance managed over time.
As Nilaura Vault, our dedicated platform, develops, the monitoring of your compliance obligations will be centralised and managed within a secure digital environment, naturally extending the advisory engagement.
From advice to tooling, one same standard.
Engagement models
Several formats, according to your needs.
The assessment
Assessment across one or more areas, with risk mapping and a compliance roadmap.
Targeted support
Hands-on support in a targeted area, from preparation to steering the procedures.
Ongoing monitoring
Long-term monitoring across several areas, for organisations whose activity demands continuous vigilance.
Formats described for guidance only; scope and terms are specified for each engagement.
Turn your obligations into protections.
Let’s discuss what is at stake for you. A first meeting with no obligation — in Dakar, in Abidjan or remotely.