MOROCCO Law and Practice Contributed by: Loris Marghieri, Dounia El Aissaoui and Julien Nouchi, Gide Loyrette Nouel
Gide Loyrette Nouel was one of the first busi - ness law firms to set up in Morocco, in 2003, and its Casablanca office brings together about 20 Moroccan and French law practitioners. Gide is one of the only firms in the country to offer legal assistance covering the various fields of Moroccan and international finance and busi - ness law, including tax-related aspects. Be - sides its Casablanca office, Gide’s Africa team works from offices in Algiers and Tunis, as well as from Europe (mostly London, Brussels and
Paris), and in close collaboration with the firm’s offices in China and Turkey, in order to develop co-operation between investors in the African continent. Clients include institutional investors, investment and commercial banks, leading Mo - roccan groups, public institutions and foreign investors operating in various sectors of activity (banking, insurance, telecommunications, agri - business, services, real estate, tourism, indus - try, utilities, infrastructure, etc).
Authors
Loris Marghieri is a partner at Gide and heads the firm’s real estate practice in Casablanca. Loris advises a broad range of domestics and international operators on all aspects of real
Dounia El Aissaoui advises clients of Gide Casablanca on all aspects of real estate law and transactions. She regularly assists local and international clients in connection with real
estate transactions and on all types of real estate assets (industrial, office, retail and shopping mall, hotels, logistics, residential, healthcare, data centres, etc) in Morocco and more broadly in west Africa. He is mainly involved in acquisitions and disposals of real estate assets, real estate financing, construction operations and large-scale development projects as well as in the drafting and negotiation of lease agreements. In recent years, Loris has also been involved in the structuring and creation of Moroccan REITs.
estate projects – whether domestic or cross- border real estate transactions (portfolio-single acquisition/purchase), leases (commercial, housing, long-term leases), construction operations (EPC contracts), management aspects (hotel management agreements, asset and facility management), town planning issues and legal structuring of mixed-use projects. Dounia also advises Moroccan and international professionals on more general contractual matters and regulatory issues.
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