Gide Loyrette Nouel‘s tourism and real estate team advises on real estate acquisition, construction and development, large-scale projects, lease agreements, financing, and hospitality-related investments. Loris Marghieri leads the team and frequently assists Moroccan and international companies on all aspects of real estate transactions and assets (industrial, office, retail, hotels, etc). Wacef Bentaibi focuses on real estate finance matters. Jean-François Levraud has expertise in sale and lease-back transactions.

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Key clients

  • Salam Invest
  • SANA Hotels
  • Société d'Aménagement du Littoral de Nouakchott
  • Oaklins Atlas Capital
  • Club Med
  • InnovX
  • ONOMO Hotels
  • Nhood CI
  • Réalités Afrique
  • Immorente Invest
  • Société Générale Maroc

Work highlights

  • Advised Anfa 19 - a joint venture between Réalités Afrique and the M’Fadel Group - on the preparation and negotiation of an off-plan lease agreement and technical service agreement with Radisson for a hotel real estate complex.
  • Assisting SANA Hotels with the development of two hotels in Casablanca. This includes providing general real estate and tax assistance regarding the investment agreement with the government of Morocco and the execution of a construction agreement for the construction of the hotels.
  • Assisting CFG Bank—an investment bank from Morocco—with the preparation and negotiation of a credit facility to be granted to the company M Park—a project company owned by a fund administrated by Mediterrania Capital Partners—for the construction and off-plan sale of two office buildings located in the Casablanca Finance City area.

Lawyers

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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Loris Marghieri, Wacef Bentaibi, Jean-François Levraud

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Dounia El Aissaoui