Global Lawyers North Africa in partnership with Gide Loyrette Nouel‘s banking and finance team wins plaudits for its ability to assist global development banks and other financial institutions with a range of local law issues connected to overseas investments. The team is additionally well placed to advise multinational organisations with Tunisian subsidiaries on regulatory banking rules and governance issues. Anis Jabnoun is the key Tunisian contact. He has deep experience in bankruptcy procedures and cross-border investments.

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Key clients

  • IFC
  • ALSF
  • Société Générale
  • European Bank of Reconstruction and Development

Work highlights

  • Advising African Legal Support Facility and the Government of the Republic of Tunisia in the development and tendering of two projects in the water sector.
  • Assisting the EBRD and the Government of Tunisia through the Office National de l’Assainissement and the Instance Générale de Partenariat Public-Privé with the development of two wastewater treatment plants in Gabès.
  • Advising the Société Générale Group on banking regulations applicable to its subsidiary as well as regulatory banking rules including governance.

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Admitted to the Tunis Bar, Anis Jabnoun is the partner in charge of Global Lawyers North Africa (GLN-A), in exclusive partnership with Gide in Tunisia since January 2012. With over 17 years' practice in Tunisia, Anis Jabnoun acts primarily in M&A and corporate law (acquisitions, capital operations, public offerings) in the banking and finance sector, and offers advice to Tunisian and foreign investors (foreign-exchange regulations, direct foreign investments, joint ventures). Anis has been involved in major Tunisian M&A transactions with respect to companies carrying out banking, financial, industrial, agri-food and services activities, as well as financing carried in Tunisia in particular by international financial institutions (IFC, EIB, EBRD, AFD, KfW, AFC, etc.). Anis assists on a regular basis international leading business law firms on Tunisian law aspects in the context of  transnational transactions, including Skadden, Hogan Lovells, Arthur Cox, Linklaters LLP, Norton Rose Fulbright, Eckert, Gleiss Lutz, Noerr LLP, Legance, Bacciardi, Chiomenti, Bomchil, Sidley Austin, Alston & Bird, Ashurst, Bowmans, Clyde & Co, Arendt et Akerman LLP. Anis has developed a strong experience in business law litigation, economic concentrations and competition law.

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Anis Jabnoun