Bennani & Associés LLP

Firm overview: Founded in 2004, Bennani & Associes is a leading independent pan-African firm with offices in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Côte d’Ivoire and now also Democratic Republic of Congo. If offers cutting-edge business law expertise to listed and unlisted companies as well as public entities and international law firms active in the region. 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

Industries served: The firm has extensive experience in representing a range of major industry sector, including (but not limited to):

• Aerospace
• Automotive
• Chemicals
• Consumer electronics
• Energy
• Engineering and construction
• Financial Services
• Food
• Oil and gas
• Pharmaceuticals
• Private equity
• Telecommunications
• Transport

Recent highlights:

• Antitrust counsel to Alstom on filing of its €6.2bn merger with Bombardier (Morocco)
• Counsel to Sage Global Automotive S.R.L. on its acquisition of a 30% stake and voting rights in the Moroccan company, ERT Automotive Morocco Sarl-Au (Morocco)
• Counsel to Bunzl on Moroccan aspects of its acquisition of a 100% equity interest in Proin Pinilla, S.L., and Protec & Marti, S.L. (Morocco)
• Counsel to global investment management firm Carlyle in a $404m bankruptcy litigation procedure against the SAMIR refinery (Morocco)
• Counsel to Representing Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Morocco in commercial arbitration against its former distributor (Morocco)
• Counsel to Facebook on data privacy and payment instruments for new products (Algeria)
• Counsel to Hyundai on a new vehicle manufacturing joint venture with Tahkout Manufacturing Company (Algeria)
• Counsel to Evatherm AG in successful defence against penalty claims relating to a turnkey salt production plant (Algeria)
• Counsel to Enel Green Power on regulatory review of 5,000MW of photovoltaic and wind farm projects (Algeria)
• Counsel to Delfingen Industry in the acquisition of a 100% shareholding in Schlemmer group’s Tunisian subsidiary (Tunisia)
• Counsel to Volkswagen regarding merger clearance of its joint venture with Rimac (Tunisia)
• Counsel to Salama – Islamic Arab Insurance Company PSC on the sale of its Senegalese subsidiary, Salama Senegal, to Groupe Duval (Côte d’Ivoire)
• Counsel to Paystack Nigeria on regulatory authorisation of the company’s activities (Côte d’Ivoire)