Bennani & Associés LLP has an enviable client list of household name multinational companies, including powerhouses in the region. Practice head Mourad Seghir offers specialist expertise in commercial contracts and the regulatory aspects of litigation within the oil and gas and wider energy sectors, with wind and solar energy being particular areas of strength. Promoted to counsel in July 2023, Mohamed Debbouche is also a key player in the energy team.

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Key clients

  • BP
  • Consortium including Centrotherm Photovoltaics
  • Dragon Oil
  • Enel Green Power
  • ENI
  • Freepoint
  • Hellenic Petroleum SA
  • LG
  • Linde Gaz
  • Nabors
  • Noble Energy
  • Saudi Aramco Products Trading Company
  • Snam
  • Stream Flo (client since 2018)

Work highlights

  • Advised Greece-based Hellenic Petroleum on the €1.3bn transfer of its refining, trading and petrochemicals operations via a legal hive-down into a newly incorporated entity.
  • Assisted Snam in connection with its €405m acquisition of a stake in a recently constituted company which will own the stakes currently held by Eni in companies active in the system of transportation of gas from Algeria to Sicily.
  • Advising a Chinese company on its participation in the tender bid for a 1,000MW solar project, which will be the largest in Algeria.

Lawyers

Leading associates
Leading associates with regular involvement in their team's key work, and recognition from peers or clients as being ones to watch.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Mourad Seghir

Other key lawyers

Mohamed Debbouche