Marc Veuillot

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Marc Veuillot is our exclusively recommended International Tax Law expert in Morocco on the Advisory Excellence website. If you need assistance in this area, please contact Marc directly using the contact details listed above.

Marc is one of the three Partners of the African department of CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats and he is also the Managing Partner of CMS Francis Lefebvre Maroc Conseil juridique et fiscal.

Marc has more than 20 years of professional experience with tax and legal consulting. During this period he has been advising almost exclusively multinational clients on French, Algerian and Moroccan international affairs.

He started his experience in Morocco with the international PwC network in 2007 and joined in 2011 CMS Francis Lefebvre to manage the Casablanca office.

Firm Overview:

The second largest economic power in Africa, with a strong internal market, Morocco has a population of 33,5 million inhabitants. The country offers a cultural openness, political stability and economic dynamism which attract many investors.

The legal and tax requirements of the country are no less complex and require a level of expertise that our firm has due to its significant experience, by virtue of which we meet the requirements of our clients who run successful businesses in a variety of sectors.

  • An adapted legal and fiscal environment which has been continually evolving for nearly 10 years (50 non-double taxation treaties in force, personal data protection laws, anti-money laundering laws, the creation of a Competition Council, market authorities with CDVM, etc.);
  • A beacon of the Maghreb area at the crossroads of Africa (the sub-Saharan zone: ECOWAS,CEMAC), the Gulf countries and Europe;
  • Special investment zones (near shoring parks – Casablanca Finance City) for service exporters (BPO, ITO) which provide, not just quality commercial real estate, but also cost advantages;
  • Tax free export Zones (EPZs) which are industrial in nature and target the carrier sector (automotive, aerospace) and have particularly attractive tax and regulatory regimes;
  • Internationally recognised State enterprises (OCP, CDG, ONEE, MASEN, ONCF, etc.) which are in demand, in terms of projects and services offered to foreign and domestic groups;
  • A significant level of infrastructure and services with international airports (Including the Mohamed V airport, the leader within the African continent in the terms of flight numbers.), three mobile phone companies, major European and U.S. banks and national banks with international standards, and excellent road infrastructures and a strong network of public transports, including the high speed train project.

In such an environment, with such rapid evolution, it is essential for investors to receive appropriate support adapted to the Moroccan context. It must be responsive enough to deal with more complex issues in terms of structuring projects, financing, costs controls in relation to taxation, secure their contracts and understand the foreign exchange regulations.

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Kenza Bounjou

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Kenza Bounjou is our exclusively recommended Banking & Finance expert in Morocco on the Advisory Excellence website. If you need assistance in this area, please contact Kenza directly using the contact details listed above.

In October 2019, Dentons combined with leading Moroccan firm Sayarh & Menjra, one of the only Moroccan firms to offer both legal advice and litigation services in Morocco.

Sayarh & Menjra’s 40-plus years of experience in Morocco, combined with Dentons’ global sector expertise and reputation for delivering technical innovation, means you now benefit from an enhanced offering no other Moroccan firm can rival. Our clients include international and local corporations, international banks, governments and state corporations, multilateral agencies, non-governmental organizations, development finance institutions, private equity funds and individuals.

Dentons Sayarh & Menjra is composed of over 15 legal professionals offering significant additional talent across our practices and sectors. Deeply engaged in the Francophone Africa region, our team has broad experience and a strong reputation in many business sectors including energy, mining, manufacturing, real estate, M&A, private equity, banking, financing and PPP.

Our team is uniquely positioned to provide you with support for your investments in Morocco, the OHADA region and Francophone Africa. We take the time to understand your business and what matters to you. Combining regional and local knowledge with practice and sector insights, we offer commercial and practical legal advice to help you achieve your business goals.

Whether you are a foreign company pursuing business opportunities in Africa or a Moroccan company seeking practical, creative solutions for doing business in Africa, Europe or anywhere in the world, contact us, we are here to help you.

Bassamat Fassi-Fihri

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Bassamat Fassi-Fihri is our exclusively recommended Business Law expert in Morocco on the Advisory Excellence website. If you need assistance in this area, please contact Bassamat directly using the contact details listed above.

Bassamat, who holds a graduate degree from Hassan II University in Casablanca, was sworn in in 1985 and enrolled at the Casablanca Bar in 1985. During her internship, she became interested in the publication of Moroccan doctrine and jurisprudence in the French and Arabic language and contributed to the resumption of the publication of the Moroccan Journal of Law founded in 1948 by Masters Marc Meylan and Fernand Darmond magazine which had ceased to be published by the latter in 1965.

In April 1989, she founded the first women’s grouping firm with Asma Laraqui and she agreed with her partners to devote their professional lives to business law, and this association will continue to this day with Mr. Asma Laraqui.

Aware very early that the development of a law firm depends on the implementation of modern management tools, it develops in-house in 1994 with a team of computer scientists an information system specific to the areas of activity of the firm and puts in place rules of participatory management by favoring the internal promotion of employees.

Considering that the law must be accessible to all and that every citizen should be able to be informed of developments in the law and case law, it created in 2004 a fully bilingual portal in which all the laws and the most relevant case law published or not on the portal jurisprudence.ma are made available free of charge to users.

An expert with Doing Business, she contributes annually to the organisation’s work in contract enforcement and collective procedure law.

She participates with the Ministry of Justice and the National Committee of the Environment of Business in the modernisation of justice and intervenes to bring her expertise to the modernisation of the courts and in particular the establishment of the platform for filing online applications.

It is consulted when certain pieces of legislation are enacted in relation to its areas of jurisdiction.

With a proven track record in the field of business law, she represents the interests of large national and foreign groups and will be a regular award-winning artist in the field of business litigation.

Asmâa Laraqui Hossini

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Asmâa Laraqui Hossini is our exclusively recommended Business Law expert in Morocco on the Advisory Excellence website. If you need assistance in this area, please contact Asmâa directly using the contact details listed above.

Morocco, a North African country bordering the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea, is distinguished by its Berber, Arabian and European cultural influences. Marrakesh’s medina, a mazelike medieval quarter, offers entertainment in its Djemaa el-Fna square and souks selling ceramics, jewellery and metal lanterns. The capital Rabat’s Kasbah of the Udayas is a 12th-century royal fort overlooking the water.

Asmâa holds a law degree from Hassan II University in Casablanca and was sworn in in 1983 and enrolled at the Casablanca Bar.

In April 1989, she founded the first women’s grouping firm with Bassamat Fassi-Fihri and Rokia Kettani and devoted her professional life to business litigation.

She continues this association with Master Bassamat Fassi Fihri and gives the firm the benefit of her perfect mastery of the law of judicial proceedings.

It helps to set up an information system specific to the management of litigation and the monitoring of all legal proceedings in real time by working to shorten the processing time of cases.

It represents the interests of large national and foreign groups.