Bahakal Abate
Bahakal Abate is a corporate and investment laws practitioner with a wealth of practical experience. He has keen interest in the role that laws play in transforming economies and nation building.
Formerly a commercial legal counsel and corporate affairs director at Diageo, Bahakal has since been in private legal practice as a senior corporate lawyer at Aman Assefa & Associates Law Office in Addis Ababa.
He studied arbitration in Geneva (LL.M from MIDS);International Economic and Business Laws in the Netherlands (LL.M from Groningen University) and general Ethiopian laws (LL.B from Haramaya University, School of law).