Lawyers in Morocco

Adil Mouline

DLA Piper

Alain Malek

Head of Morocco, Partner

Norton Rose Fulbright

Asmae EL KHAIER

DIRECTOR

Grant Thornton Legal

Benoit de Monval

DLA Piper

Boubacar Diao

Senior Associate

ADNA

Camilia Benani

DLA Piper

Chloé Joachim De Larivière

Chloé Joachim de Larivière is a Partner in the Corporate/Mergers & Acquisitions team in Gide's Casablanca office. For more than thirteen years, she has been involved in acquisitions/divestitures (share deals or asset deals), investments and partnerships for foreign investors wishing to expand or sell their businesses in Morocco or in sub-Saharan Africa. She also assists Moroccan clients with their internal or external growth projects. Chloé also has a recognized and established expertise on(i) listed M&A in Morocco and (ii) M&A transactions in "regulated" sectors (bank, insurance and pharmaceutical sector). Chloé co-heads Gide's Corporate/Mergers & Acquisitions department in Casablanca. She holds a Master II in Business Law and a Magistère in Business Law from the University of Paris II Panthéon Assas and a Diplôme de Juriste Conseil d'Entreprise (DJCE). She was admitted to the Paris Bar in 2012.

Gide Loyrette Nouel

Christophe Bachelet

DLA Piper

Christophe Simonnet

Christophe is a corporate lawyer with more than 18 years of experience, including 10 years of practice in Morocco where he has been established since 2008. From Casablanca, Christophe regularly advises local and international clients on acquisitions and corporate matters in North Africa and in French-speaking African countries. He focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, corporate, commercial contracts, real estate and financing.

Dentons Morocco

Christopher Aird

Counsel

Norton Rose Fulbright

Corinne Khayat

Corinne Khayat has been a partner of UGGC Avocats since 2000, where she co-heads the IP-IT and the competition law departments. Corinne Khayat regularly represents her clients before the courts and advises in all areas of French and EU Intellectual Property and Information Technologies law. She has particular experience in complex trademark and copyright litigation. Corinne Khayat assists French and foreign clients, mostly large and medium size companies and public bodies, active in various sectors such as food, retail, services, luxury (cosmetics, perfumes), arts and building materials industries. She also handles cases as a correspondent for many foreign law firms. She also regularly advises in distribution law and assists clients in setting-up distribution networks. Corinne Khayat is now an UNIFAB expert.

UGGC Avocats

Dina Benjelloun

Associate

ADNA

Dounia El Aissaoui

Dounia El Aissaoui practices within Gide’s Real Estate Transactions & Financing practice group. Based in Casablanca since 2019, she assists and advises Moroccan and international clients on all types of real estate transactions involving a wide range of asset classes (industrial, office, retail, shopping centers, logistics, residential, hospitality, etc.) in Morocco and across Africa. Dounia also advises a broad range of clients on commercial and contractual matters, including franchising, distribution and service agreements. Over the years, she has further developed recognized expertise in personal data protection law. Before joining Gide, she practiced at De Pardieu Brocas Maffei in Paris. She also served as a teaching assistant in contract law and tort law at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Gide Loyrette Nouel

Elizabeth Gautier

Elizabeth Gautier est associée au sein de l'équipe "Concurrence et commerce international" de Gide à Paris. Elle est spécialisée en droit français et européen de la concurrence (ententes, abus de position dominante et contrôle des concentrations) et réglementations FSR et FDI. Elle intervient pour le compte d'opérateurs nationaux et internationaux, en conseil et en contentieux devant les tribunaux français, l'Autorité de la concurrence, la Commission européenne et leurs juridictions de recours. Elle assiste par ailleurs les entreprises dans le cadre d'opérations de concentrations devant les autorités de concurrence pouvant donner lieu à des engagements et / ou l'ouverture d'une phase d'examen approfondi. Enfin, Elizabeth assiste les opérateurs dans le cadre de leurs obligations de notifications au titre des réglementations FDI et FSR. Elizabeth est récemment intervenue dans de nombreux dossiers antitrust emblématiques face à l'Autorité de la concurrence : les affaires de l'électroménager, de l'équarrissage, du Bisphénol A, des produits d'hygiène et d'entretien, Echange Image Chèque, etc. Elle est par ailleurs intervenue récemment dans plusieurs affaires de recours indemnitaires devant les juridictions civiles et commerciales, notamment dans les secteurs des paris en ligne, des produits d'hygiène et d'entretien, des informations juridiques et économiques sur les entreprises, bancaire, des produits de grande consommation, etc.

Gide Loyrette Nouel

Fabien Gagnerot

Fabien Gagnerot is a senior counsel in UGGC’s corporate department with 10 years of experience in corporate and commercial operations. Prior to joining the Casablanca office in 2021, he was initially based in New Delhi, India, to assist the firm’s Indian Desk (2012-2015) and then in the corporate team of our Paris office (2015-2020). With a main focus on M&A (acquisition, sale, joint-venture, etc.) and contracts, Fabien’s practice in Morocco routinely includes commercial transactions and M&A/commercial litigation. His expertise in corporate law: Mergers & Acquisitions; Private Equity; securities issues; joint ventures; corporate restructuring; international investments; capital markets. Fabien advises numerous foreign and local companies for their projects in Morocco, from upstream (project set-up, advisory on foreign exchange regulations and funding issues) to the actual implementation (greenfield, brownfield (joint-venture), restructuring) and to the downstream issues (corporate governance of the subsidiary, branch office or joint-venture, compliance issues (personal data), commercial contracts and general day-to-day commercial matters). He assists primarily an industrial clientele, operating in diverse sectors, such as defense/aeronautics, pharma/medical devices and telecommunications. Considering his experience in international corporate transactions, Fabien regularly intervenes as a lecturer or guest speaker in France or abroad for pedagogical or training purposes.

UGGC Africa

Frédéric Giancarli

Frédéric Giancarli is a French-qualified lawyer and has over twenty years of experience in M&A and private equity in both Paris and Casablanca. Frédéric has recently advised on a variety of M&A and private equity mandates in a wide range of sectors including technology, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, industrials, and manufacturing, as well as in financial services. He also boasts a wealth of experience in corporate and commercial litigation matters and has a fine-tuned skillset and a deep understanding of the Casablanca legal market. Frédéric is the Africa Practice Leader for TMT and Consumer Goods & Retail.

Clifford Chance

Frédéric Pia

Frédéric Pia is Counsel in the Projects (Finance & Infrastructure) team in Casablanca. He advises governments, international financial institutions and sponsors in relation to projects in the energy (mainly PV and wind) and infrastructure sectors (ports, airports, roads, water desalination and treatment plants, airports and roads). He assists the clients in relation to all development stages of these projects (development phase, drafting and negotiating of project and financing documents). Frédéric mainly works on African projects. He has recently advised clients such InfraCo Africa, ALSF, AMEA Power Engie and Vinci Concession with respect to solar and wind projects on the continent. With respect to infrastructure projects, he has acted notably for MSC Group, Egis Projects and Global Ports Holding on transport projects, Suez International, Nareva Holding, ALSF and Meridiam on water projects. Frédéric also advises companies and public players in the natural resources, defence and other public infrastructure sectors. Frédéric holds a Master's degree in International Business Law and Management from business school ESSEC, and is a graduate of Paris West University Nanterre La Défense and Ecole des Ponts ParisTech (Master's degree in project financing and structured financing). He is a member of the Paris Bar since 2012.

Gide Loyrette Nouel

Gaëlle Bouriau

DLA Piper

Ghita Berrada

Associate

ADNA

Ghita Moussaid

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DLA Piper

Hajar Benyachou

Hajar Benyachou is Senior Associate at Afrique Advisors. She has a strong knowledge of Moroccan Law and practice in the areas of foreign investments, joint-ventures, mergers and acquisitions, and advises local and international companies in these different fields. She has assisted many international and national clients (including industrial companies and investments funds) in transfer and acquisition process of companies operating in different industries (insurance, pharmaceutical laboratories, education). She has also experience in dealing with exchange control regulation, contract law, and project finance. She also advices legal directions of Moroccan companies in their day-to-day management operations.

Afrique Advisors

Hamza El Hassani

Partner at Zarhouni & El Hassani Law Firm

Zarhouni & El Hassani Law Firm

Jean-François Levraud

Jean-François Levraud is a partner in Gide's Real Estate team in Paris and has been the firm's managing partner since 2021. He is mainly involved in property transactions and assists his clients with construction and development operations. In recent years, Jean-François has worked with AccorInvest, Blackrock Investment, BNP Paribas, DWS GmbH, Pernod Ricard, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Seafrigo Investment, Union Investment Real Estate and Unibail-Rodamco. Jean-François joined Gide's Morocco office in 2013 to strengthen the real estate practice. He headed the Casablanca office until summer 2018, before returning to practise in Paris. Admitted to the Paris Bar in 2003, he is a graduate of IEP of Bordeaux, ESCP Business School and the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Paris 5 Universities.

Gide Loyrette Nouel

Jessica Melville

Norton Rose Fulbright