Benzakour Law Firm

The firm: Benzakour Law firm (BLF) is a major Moroccan business law firm, with a long history in the country. It is a prominent and very reputable firm in Morocco. The firm is widely regarded as a top law firm acting in upstream and downstream sides. It is offering a large and full portfolio in business law with a particular focus on assistance to foreign investment and litigation. The main areas of practice are corporate, shipping, aviation, real estate, labour, tax law, energy, competition law and litigation/collection debt, arbitration.

Rachid Benzakour is the head partner and manager of the firm. He continuously receives much praise for his in-depth knowledge and deep understanding of international clients’ needs. ‘He takes care of all our issues, responds quickly and knows the local laws very well’, noted one client. He was ranked first in the National Bar Exam (2000). He is a multilingual practioner, with a mixture of anglosaxon and french cultures.

Abdelaziz Benzakour is a statesman and revered figure in the country. He was appointed by the King as head of Morocco’s Mediator Institute in 2011. He is also a former chief of the Casablanca Bar, the Moroccan Association Bars and the African Union Bars. He is lauded as ‘one of the biggest figures of the Moroccan Bar, with lots of personality, charisma and a great reputation’.

The firm is very well versed in working on different projects in collaboration with several foreign law firms, such as  King & Wood Malleson, Clyde & Co, Reed Smith, Herbert Smith, Hogan Lovells, Jones Day, Cleary Gottlieb, , Gleiss Lutz, Ashurst, DWF, Simmons & Simmons, Bredin Prat, August & Debouzy, Depardieu Brocas Maffei, BonelliErede, Willkie Farr & Gallagher, Stibbe, Latham & Watkins LLP, SJ Berwin, Skadden, Morrison & Foster.

The firm has also worked on different projects for clients such as: Export and Import Bank of America (EximBank), Royal Air Maroc, Alitalia, IATA, Philip Morris, KT&G, Isuzu, Ford, Amazon, Booking, Adidas, Schlumberger, Derichebourg, Litasco, General Electric Healthcare, Club Med, Accor, Coca-Cola, Nokia-Siemens, Danone, Alstom, Ikea, New Look, Sumitomo, Columbia, Aeropurtos Argentina, Oetker, Acwa Power, Averda,, Endesa, Sita, SNCF International, Groupe Castel, Suez, Simba Toys, Teleperformance Intermediation, Hermes, Technogym, PGS, Acticall, AAR Corp, Can-Pack, Henkel, Diebold, Adidas, KT&G Corporation, Gamesa Siemens, Ferragamo, UK Government, Credit Agricole, Bic,  Pesner, Posco, Mettalis, Somaport, Radisson, Western Geco.