Advising international clients on their investments in Tunisia is at the heart of the corporate offering at Global Lawyers North Africa in partnership with Gide Loyrette Nouel. Recent work in this area includes advising on the establishment of joint ventures and on the disposition and acquisition of Tunisian companies and subsidiaries. Practice head Anis Jabnoun‘s transactional competence is particularly valued by clients from the financial services and industrial sectors.

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Key clients

  • Bulgin group
  • Servier Group
  • Lear Group
  • Fresenius Medical Care
  • Telecoming
  • Daimler
  • Orange
  • Valpaint
  • Gervé Danone
  • Sisal

Work highlights

  • Advising a Servier Group entity holding 50% of Servier Tunisia to acquire the remaining 50% from the local Tunisian partner.
  • Advising the BULGIN group in the sale of EQUISTONE involving its Tunisian subsidiary BULGIN TUNISIE S.A R.L.
  • Advising Danone on its equity stakes in several Tunisian company of the Délice Group.

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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.

Practice head

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Anis Jabnoun