Corporate/Commercial

About

Provided by Bennani & Associés

Managing Partners:
Morocco – Mehdi M. Bennani
Algeria – Mourad Seghir
Tunisia – Lamia Harghem
Ivory Coast – Assemian Kouakou
Languages: Arabic, English, French

Firm Overview:
Founded in 2004, Bennani & Associes is a leading independent pan-African firm with offices in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Ivory Coast. If offers cutting-edge business law expertise to listed and unlisted companies as well as public entities. In each market, the firm has a particular expertise in representing foreign investors across a wide range of complex issues, including:

• General corporate law

• Mergers and acquisitions

• Joint ventures and partnerships

• Corporate restructuring

• Competition/antitrust and other regulatory advice

• Employment law

• Financing

• Commercial litigation and arbitration

• White collar criminal law

Recent Highlights:

• Counsel to Fater Spa (a Procter & Gamble and Angelini Group joint venture) in the exit from Morocco via the sale of a 100% stake in Fater Morocco

• Counsel to Vivo Energy Maroc on purchase of a 49% stake in Sopétrole and related compliance matters

• Counsel to global investment management firm Carlyle in a $404 million bankruptcy litigation procedure opened against the SAMIR refinery

• Counsel to Daewoo Engineering & Construction in commercial litigation relating to the construction of power plants