Lawyers in Morocco

Julien Nouchi

Julien Nouchi is Of Counsel in the Tax Law team in Gide’s Casablanca office. He advises on both domestic and cross-border transactions with tax and foreign exchange implications, including acquisitions, disposals, mergers and restructuring operations. He also handles matters relating to Moroccan customs regulations and the implementation of free trade agreements. In addition, Julien's practice covers obtaining and implementing the authorizations required for employee share ownership plans for foreign listed and private companies. He has advised many Moroccan and foreign clients on their dealings with the tax authorities, including during audits and obtaining tax rulings. Julian also advises on efficient tax structures for foreign investments and managing permanent establishment risk. He works closely with the Projects and Project Financing teams on negotiating engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts and their tax structuring, and with the M&A department on tax due diligence and the tax aspects of SPAs. Julien is a graduate of Université Paris-Dauphine (Corporate Taxation (2012) and Estate Management (2011)). He is a member of the Paris Bar. Specializing in corporate tax, he joined Gide’s Casablanca office in 2017.

Gide Loyrette Nouel

Kamal Nasrollah

Kamal Nasrollah joined Baker McKenzie on August 2012 to launch and head the Firm's Casablanca office. Prior to joining the Firm, he worked for Sullivan & Cromwell in New York from 1996 to 2001, and London from 2001 to 2003. He worked as a partner in the corporate team in August & Debouzy’s Paris office from 2003 to 2007, and managing partner in the Casablanca office from 2007 to 2012.

Baker & McKenzie Maroc

Keltoum Boudribila

Keltoum Boudribila joined Baker McKenzie in September 2012 and works on a daily basis on operations led by the Casablanca office, the 71st office of the network and third site of Baker McKenzie in Africa.

Baker & McKenzie Maroc

Khadija Zoulali

Khadija Zoulali is an associate at Dentons Sayarh & Menjra specializing in Mergers & acquisitions and more generally in corporate law and commercial law. She has also developed a strong expertise in competition law.

Afrique Advisors

Laila Boujida

Associate

ADNA

Laila Slassi

Managing Partner

Afrique Advisors

Laëtitia Badjoko

DLA Piper

Loris Marghieri

Loris Marghieri is a Partner in the Real Estate team in Casablanca. He has headed the Casablanca office's real estate practice since 2015 after spending several years in the Real Estate department in Paris. He advises a wide range of Moroccan and international operators on all aspects of real estate transactions and on all types of assets. He is mainly involved in asset acquisitions and disposals, real estate financing, construction operations and leases. Loris has developed leading expertise in the industrial sector in Build to Suit transactions, as well as in the tourism and hotel sector, regularly assisting owners and operators with the development of hotel projects and the preparation and negotiation of franchise and hotel management contracts. Loris recently assisted Atlanta Sanad, alongside Arkhè Real Estate, in several Build to Suit transactions for APTIV, Leoni and Gentherm. Loris regularly advises the Onomo Hotels group on its various hotel projects in Africa, and recently assisted Réalités Maroc and the M'Fadel Group on a large-scale operation involving a hotel complex in Casa Anfa. Loris holds a Master's degree in International Business Law from the Université Paris V René Descartes and is a graduate of the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce Audencia (France), the University of Deusto (Spain) and the University of Bradford (UK) as part of a joint Master's programme. He was admitted to the Paris Bar in 2010.

Gide Loyrette Nouel

Malika Ferrali

Director

Grant Thornton Legal

Marie-Amélia Marques

Marie-Amélia is Mid-level associate at Afrique Advisors. She has a strong knowledge in international public law, international business law and in regulatory. She has also experience in European law, commercial law, contract law, public law, and in regulations applicable to various activities sectors (e.g. pharmaceutics, cosmetics, food, beverage, mass consumption products, toys safety, regulated products), as well as in data protection and privacy issues. Marie-Amélia regularly assists local and international companies on their various contractual, commercial, regulatory, and data protection issues. Marie-Amélia education and professional backgrounds allow her to approach and deal with each client’s legal issue in a transversal manner.

Afrique Advisors

Mehdi Kettani

DLA Piper

Mehdi Megzari

Mehdi Megzari is a Partner at Dentons Sayarh & Menjra. He focuses on mergers & acquisitions, capital market and competition law. Mehdi is regularly involved in domestic and cross-border acquisitions (listed and non-listed), mergers and restructurings, international joint-ventures, and more generally in various operations relating to corporate, banking and securities law. Mehdi has also developed specialized skills in the upstream oil & gas and mining activity in Morocco.

Dentons Morocco

Meryem Lahlou

Meryem Lahlou is Mid-level associate at Afrique Advisors. She regularly assists local and international companies in all their operations of creation, mergers and acquisitions, creation of joint-ventures, assets acquisitions, takeover or transfer of control. She also advises clients on their various tax, contractual, commercial and intellectual property issues. In particular, she has developed a know-how in pre-litigation in order to help clients find amicable solutions to their disputes by assisting them in the negotiations to be conducted and the strategies to be adopted in preparation for possible future litigation. Meryem Lahlou's professional background has allowed her to develop a multidisciplinary practice, in particular, in private equity transactions, advising institutional and private investors in the context of their equity participations in private equity funds.

Afrique Advisors

Mohamed Ali Sayarh

Mohamed Ali Sayarh is a Founding Partner of Sayarh & Menjra (now Dentons Sayarh & Menjra). With over 40 years of experience, he has acquired a strong and recognized expertise in the business law sector and has advised and represented numerous private companies and governmental entities (including the Kingdom of Morocco) on complex transactions and litigation matters. His areas of expertise comprise banking law, real estate, administrative law and dispute resolution.

Dentons Morocco

Mohamed Amine Menjra

Mohamed Amine is a Founding Partner of Sayarh & Menjra (now Dentons Sayarh & Menjra), who has developed a strong expertise in the business law sector and has represented numerous private companies and governmental entities before the Moroccan courts. His areas of expertise comprise commercial law, contract law and dispute resolution.

Dentons Morocco

Mounia Larhrissi

Admitted to the Paris Bar, Mounia Larhrissi joined Gide's Banking & Finance practice group in 2016. She acts primarily for sponsors, senior and/or mezzanine lenders as part of asset, corporate and project financing operations. Mounia holds a Master's degree in corporate law from Paris II - Panthéon-Assas University, and speaks French, English and Arabic.

Gide Loyrette Nouel

Mustapha Mourahib

Mustapha Mourahib is the Managing Partner of our Casablanca office and the Co-Head of Clifford Chance's Africa Group. Mustapha has extensive experience in large-scale M&A, private equity, PPP and project finance transactions. He has also a significant experience representing public, private and state-owned corporate clients in the development and financing of large projects. He focuses in the energy, infrastructure, oil & gas, mining, financial services, TMT and consumer goods industries. Mustapha is one of the key individuals in the legal environment in Morocco and in the North Africa and sub-Saharan Francophone region. He is continuously distinguished as a leading lawyer in Africa by Chambers Global, Legal 500 and IFLR 1000.

Clifford Chance

Omar Sayarh

Omar Sayarh is the Managing Partner of Dentons Sayarh & Menjra. He focuses on mergers & acquisitions, capital market, real estate and, more generally, on domestic and foreign investments. Omar has extensive experience in all aspects of industrial projects and real estate developments, as well as public contracts, public-private partnerships and large-scale construction projects in Morocco. He has been involved in large-scale, high profile transactions and is regularly advising leading clients on their transactions and businesses in Morocco in particular and in Africa more generally. Omar has also developed a strong expertise in the labor law area and in Islamic Finance.

Dentons Morocco

Omar Zizi

Partner, Head of Office - Morocco

Al Tamimi & Company

Orphée Haddad

Head of Disputes

ADNA

Ouns Lemseffer

Ashurst

Rachid Benzakour

Managing Partner- Head of Advising Department and litigation department. Provides assistance to foreign investors in Morocco: corporate law, contracts, real estate, aviation, maritime law, labour law... Represents clients before Moroccan Courts: recovery claims, seizures.

Benzakour Law Firm

Rachid Mejdoubi

Senior Tax advisor

CMS Francis Lefebvre Maroc Conseil Juridique et Fiscal

Rim Tazi

Rim Tazi is of-counsel in the Casablanca office and has 14 years of experience in Moroccan law, including the following areas: corporate and commercial law, contract/distribution law, international investments. EXPERTISE IN CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL LAW Rim is regularly involved in structuring international investments and advises clients on the implementation of these investments and the negotiation of complex contracts. Corporate law Mergers & Acquisitions; Private Equity; Joint-Ventures; Corporate restructuring; Commercial contracts/Distribution Drafting, review and negotiation of commercial contracts: purchase/sale, services contracts, sub-contracting, franchising, exclusive and selective distribution, commercial agent, licensing, business contributor contracts, etc.; Terms and conditions for the termination of commercial relations: abrupt termination, abusive termination; etc. Rim usually advises major institutional and financial groups, Moroccan and international (mainly French and Anglo-Saxon), as well as Moroccan administrations and para-public entities.

UGGC Africa