Aboubacar Sidiki Kanté is a lawyer at the Guinea and Paris bars and founder of ASK AVOCATS. He advises on several aspects of Guinean and community law, including, but not limited to, mining law and OHADA affairs. He began his practice in the Energy and Natural Resources department of the famous Jeantet law firm in Paris. He holds two Master LLM degrees from Washington University St. Louis School of Law, one of the top 20 law schools in the United States: The first focuses on American law and the second focuses on negotiations and alternative dispute resolution. He works in English and French, and also speaks several West African languages (Wolof, Bambara, Soussou, Malinké).