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Dr. Ange Dorine Irakoze is a Partner and Head of the Energy and Natural Resources Sector at RUBEYA & Co-ADVOCATES. She advises clients across the full spectrum of East African Community (EAC) regional integration, with core practice areas spanning finance, energy, and infrastructure.
She regularly advises on the legal framework governing the free movement of persons, goods, services, and capital within the EAC, helping clients navigate the region's evolving integration landscape. Dorine is also actively involved in legislative drafting processes, analyzing emerging reforms to keep clients ahead of regulatory change, and she advises on the interpretation and enforcement of energy laws and policies.
Her practice serves a diverse client base, including governments, investors, private developers, and project sponsors, reflecting her broad experience across the public and private sectors of the energy and infrastructure space.
Experience has included advising:
- An International Finance Corporation, on the implementation of the Africa IC Power Project in Burundi.
- An International Bank, in reviewing and analyzing the Burundi’s commercial laws concerning trade in goods to determine their compliance with the "Freedom of Movement of Goods and services in EAC" chapter of the EAC Common Market Scorecard 2014.
- A regional funding organization, in the improvement of Burundi's Investment Climate and Higher Domestication of EAC Common Market Protocol.
- A regional funding organization, in conducting an assessment and a diagnostic study of the investment framework in Burundi.
- A public institution, in disseminating a workshop on decision registered under RTC 421 relating to the damages interest in case of unfair dismissal where employment court judges and assessors participated.
- The Ministry of Tourism, in drafting of the implementation texts of the Decree No.100/197of 5 July 2012 on the regulation of Tourism in Burundi
- An internal Bank that was supporting the Government, in drafting the new credit reporting and credit information sharing regulation / law.
Professional Qualifications
- Advocate admitted with the Court of Appeal of Bujumbura (2013)
Education
- University of Bayreuth, Germany, PhD (2025)
- University of Dar es Salaam, LL.M (2019)
- National University of Rwanda, LL.B. (2012)
Recognition
- Ranked as Next Generation Partner by The Legal 500 EMEA, (2025)
- Ranked as Band 2 by Chambers and Partners Global (2026)
- Ranked as Notable Practitioner by IFLR 1000 , (2025)
Memberships
- Burundi Bar Association
- East African Law Society
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Member of the Board of Directors for the Centre for Development and Enterprises Great Lakes
- Board Edition of the East African Law Society
- Coordinator of activities at the East African Law Society Trade and Regional Integration Committee
