Reference document for clients, international funders and supervisory bodies. Capital structure, internal governance, independence charter, regulatory compliance — everything a serious buyer is entitled to verify before engaging a sensitive mandate.
Capital structure
Independent firm with 100% African-owned capital.
Hivesia — Hive Strategic Impact Advisors — is incorporated as a Senegalese-law consultancy. The entire capital is held by founding partners resident in West Africa. No foreign holding, no investment fund, no cross-holding with any sector operator on which the firm advises.
Legal name
Hivesia · Hive Strategic Impact Advisors
Legal form
Limited liability company (Senegalese law)
Registered office
Yoff, Route de l'Aéroport · Dakar · Senegal
Founded
2021
Share capital
100% held by founding partners (natural persons, West Africa residence)
Holdings
None in sectors Hivesia advises on
Offices
Dakar (HQ) · Freetown · European representation on request
Beneficial owners details, trade registry and articles of association communicable under bilateral confidentiality agreement for buyers engaged in a formal procurement.
Internal governance
Three separate oversight bodies.
Internal governance articulates three distinct bodies to prevent concentration of power and guarantee both deliverable quality and ethical mandate acceptance.
Executive Direction
Leads the firm's strategy, validates every mandate before signing, oversees methodological quality of deliverables. Collegial leadership, key decisions requiring partner validation.
Ethics Committee
Independent body (composition: 2 partners + 1 qualified external personality). Systematically convened for: any potentially conflicting mandate, any non-standard outbound communication request, any internal alert on professional conduct. Decisions enforceable upon the rest of the firm.
Sovereign Project Committee
Technical body convened monthly for each major institutional transformation mandate. Variable composition by mandate (partners + mobilized experts + client representative). Documented, traceable, enforceable.
Independence charter
Seven enforceable commitments.
African capital independence. No external investor entry is envisaged without unanimous validation by founding partners and prior examination by the Ethics Committee.
Absence of conflicts of interest. No mandate is accepted that would place Hivesia in conflict with an ongoing client. Systematic verification at every engagement request.
Enforceable confidentiality. Any pre-mandate exchange is covered by bilateral confidentiality agreement. No client reference is disclosed without express written authorization.
Refusal of influence-clause funding. No funding (donor, sponsor, foundation) is accepted in exchange for editorial or doctrinal orientation.
Editorial independence. Hivesia Insights publications express the firm's analysis, never a client's or sponsor's viewpoint. Any commissioned content is prohibited.
Fee transparency. Exclusively fee-based economic model (never success fees, never rebates, never compensation tied to external outcomes).
Strict regulatory compliance. Respect of applicable law in Senegal and in every country of intervention. OFAC compliance, EU sanctions, GDPR for any data processed.
Hivesia operates in environments where compliance is not optional. Our framework covers applicable obligations both in Senegal and in countries of intervention, as well as relevant extraterritorial regimes.
Senegalese framework
OHADA compliance · Senegalese corporate law · tax obligations · BCEAO regulation on cross-border financial flows.
African regional framework
Respect of national anti-corruption frameworks (OFNAC Senegal, regional equivalents), ECOWAS and CEMAC frameworks per mandate, Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) on extractive dossiers.
International framework
Respect of OFAC sanctions (US Treasury), EU sanctions, FATF recommendations on AML and counter-terrorist financing. GDPR compliance for any personal data processed — including outside the EU.
Operational security
Local encrypted storage for any sensitive document. No offshore subcontracting on sovereignty matters. End-to-end encrypted communication channels. Strict document retention policy (programmed deletion at mandate end except contrary legal obligation).
Recourse
Alert and complaint procedure.
Any client, third party, or observer aware of an alleged breach of this charter may directly contact the firm's Ethics Committee at ethique@hivesia.com. Every submission is acknowledged within 48 working hours and documented within 30 days. Conclusions are communicated to the complainant and, where applicable, lead to corrective measures enforceable on the relevant teams.
Serious breaches are notified to the complainant on accelerated timelines. The firm commits not to exercise retaliation against any person who has exercised their right to good-faith reporting.
For an in-depth verification of our compliance,
legal documents (articles of association, registry, attestations) are communicable under bilateral NDA to any party engaged in a due diligence process.
