Africa - Morocco

Clifford Chance

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Clifford Chance has a strong focus on high-value project finance and project development in energy and infrastructure. Mustapha Mourahib and Ouns Lemseffer lead the practice in the firm's Casablanca office. Mourahib has extensive experience in large scale M&A, private equity, and project finance transactions in the energy industry; he is advising the Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy (MASEN) in a major asset transfer by the National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water (ONEE). Additionally, Lemseffer advises large energy clients in financing large projects, such as wind farms and desalination plants.

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Key clients

  • Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy (MASEN)
  • OCP Africa
  • ONHYM (the Moroccan National Office for Hydrocarbons and Mines)
  • Enel Green Power Morocco
  • Meridiam SAS
  • Acciona Agua, Green of Africa S.A. and Afriquia Gaz
  • Africa 50 – Project Development
  • Attijariwafa Bank, Banque Centrale Populaire and Bank of Africa
  • Siemens Energy
  • Power Sur
  • A.P. Moller
  • Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique (UM6P)
  • Nareva Holding SA and Enel Green Power
  • Orange Middle East & Africa and Orange Mali

Work highlights

  • Advised OCP Africa on its partnership with the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) for the development of an industrial platform for the production of fertilizers in Nigeria.
  • Advised Acciona Agua, Green of Africa S.A. and Afriquia Gaz in the context of their tender for the Casablanca desalination plant with an installed capacity of 200 million m3 per year under phase 1 and an additional 100 million m3 per year under phase 2.
  • Advised ONHYM (the Moroccan National Office for Hydrocarbons and Mines) in respect of taking over ownership and operations (gas transportation services) of the Moroccan section of Maghreb-Europe gas pipeline (the GME), in the context of the termination in 2021 of the 25-year agreement between Naturgy, GALP, ONHYM and the Kingdom of Morocco.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Mustapha Mourahib, Ouns Lemseffer