Practice Areas
Wacef Bentaibi is a Partner in the Projects and Project Finance team and co-head of Gide's Casablanca office. He specialises in project finance and public law and focuses on the energy, infrastructure and transport sectors (ports, airports, desalination and irrigation).
He assists governments, public authorities, sponsors and lenders with their various projects. He has developed experience in foreign investment in the industrial and real estate sectors, and in particular in structuring and negotiating complex industrial agreements and contracts for the construction of public or private works in Morocco.
He also works in the mining, oil and gas sectors and regularly assists international operators and public entities in Morocco and the MENA region.
Wacef holds a Master's degree in business law from the University of Paris Nanterre and an LL.M from the University of Oslo. He was admitted to the Bar in 2005, and has been practising with the firm since 2006.
Career
Gide Loyrette Nouel partner (since March 2016)
Associate, Naciri & Associés - Allen & Overy (2011-February 2016)
Associate, Naciri & Associés - Gide Loyrette Nouel (2009-2011)
Associate, Allen & Overy (2008-2009)
Associate, Naciri & Associés - Gide Loyrette Nouel (2006-2008)
Admitted to the Paris Bar (2005)
LL.M., University of Oslo (2003)
Certificate in EU/EEE Public Producremet Law, University of Bergen (2002)
Master's degree in Business Law, University of Paris X (2002)
