Norton Rose Fulbright’s banking and finance team is well-equipped to provide advice on banking operations, project financing, financial restructuring, and corporate lending transactions. Leading the team is corporate specialist Alain Malek who advises Moroccan and international corporations and financial institutions across sectors including banking, insurance, energy, infrastructure, and telecoms. Roberto Cristofolini specialises in capital markets, banking, and asset management, including the creation of all types of investment funds and financial and stock market regulation. Sara Benjelloun recently joined the capital markets team.
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Key clients
- Moroccan Ministry of Economy and Finance
- Attijariwafa Bank
- HPS
- Banque centrale Populaire
- Nama Holding
- Société de Dessalement d’Eau d’Agadir (SEDA)
Work highlights
- Advised the lenders in the context of the financing of the acquisition by Sucden of a 10% stake in Cosumar.
- Advising Hightech Payment Systems (HPS), listed on the Casablanca Stock Exchange, with respect to an increase in capital reserved to managers and employees of the group, via the subscription of stock options.
- Advised the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Morocco, together with the World Bank Group (acting under its Joint Capital Markets Program – J-CAP), on the law n°58-22 amending and supplementing law n°41-05 on private equity funds (OPCCs), adopted in September 2023
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Alain Malek, Roberto Cristofolini.