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Bakouchi & Habachi - HB Law Firm LLP Offices

Bakouchi & Habachi - HB Law Firm LLP
6 RUE FARRABI
BD RACHIDI, RÈSIDENCE TOUBKAL, 2ÈME ÈTAGE – GAUTHIER
CASABLANCA
Morocco
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Bakouchi & Habachi - HB Law Firm LLP > The Legal 500 Rankings

Morocco > Banking, finance and capital markets Tier 3

Bakouchi & Habachi - HB Law Firm LLP's team provides banking and capital markets advice to banks, private equity, and insurance clients in Morocco. The practice is jointly led by Salima Bakouchi, who frequently advises on bond loans and financing projects, and Kamal Habachi, who assists clients with the issuance of structured deposit certificates.

Practice head(s):

Salima Bakouchi; Kamal Habachi

Testimonials

‘Well-structured, well-organized law firm with potential’   

 

Work highlights

Morocco > Commercial, corporate and M&A Tier 3

The team at Bakouchi & Habachi - HB Law Firm LLP has notable strength in assisting European clients in acquiring shares in Morocco. Practice co-lead Salima Bakouchi, proficient in Arabic, French, and English, assists investors in various commercial transactions and litigations in the energy, insurance, and finance industries. Fellow co-lead Kamal Habachi is experienced in advising companies in the EU on relocating their operations to Morocco.

Practice head(s):

Salima Bakouchi; Kamal Habachi

Work highlights

Morocco > Dispute resolution Tier 3

The team at Bakouchi & Habachi - HB Law Firm LLP is well-versed in representing clients in commercial litigation and arbitrations. The practice is jointly led by Salima Bakouchi and Kamal Habachi. Bakouchi has strong experience in representing clients in matters concerning forfeiture of debt, liability, and fraud, and Habachi often acts in arbitrations and matters concerning trademark infringement and non-compete matters.

Practice head(s):

Salima Bakouchi; Kamal Habachi

Testimonials

‘Professional law firm and masters its field of expertise.’

Bakouchi & Habachi - HB Law Firm LLP > Firm Profile

The firm: HB Law Firm LLP is a leading independent law firm founded by Mrs Salima with a long-standing reputation for delivering a high-quality service and adding value for clients. In addition to the firm’s expertise in a wide range of legal disciplines, the firm focuses on four global sectors: financial services and infrastructure; energy and natural resources; advanced manufacturing; and technology services.

The firm has over ten years of experience, having had an established presence in the region and represents a variety of clients including government entities, locally owned companies and international corporations. The team is fully conversant in all aspects of local and regional compliance and regulation, employment, finance and day-to-day advisory services. It includes several native-speaking lawyers, including Arabic, French and English. Furthermore, the firm has an established network of regional law firms.

Areas of practice
Corporate, finance and investment funds: loan finance; debt capital markets; acquisition finance; restructuring; local debt finance transactions; structured finance; share and all assets; security; insolvency; manager and administrator transfers of control; regulatory consents and fund investments; advice on regulatory issues including sanctions, FATCA and equity capital markets.

Mergers and acquisitions: joint ventures and shareholder arrangements; reorganisations and disposals; corporate restructuring; stock exchange listings; sale and purchase documentation; regulatory advice; intellectual property; trade marks.

Litigation, insolvency and restructuring: fraud and asset tracing; company advice; claims against directors; shareholder disputes; trust litigation; distressed funds; banking and contractual disputes; insurance; warranty claims; property and employment disputes; professional negligence claims; administrative law and judicial review; IP disputes; debt and equity rescheduling and refinancing; distressed mergers and acquisitions; distressed funds advice; formal insolvency proceedings and office holders’ conduct, powers and regulation; debt recovery.

Regulatory: anti-money laundering compliance; terrorist financing compliance; financial services regulation; sanctions; tax and tax information exchange; FATCA; insurance and reinsurance regulation.

Main Contacts

Department Name Email Telephone
Corporate/M&A
Banking and project finance
Capital markets and private equity
Intellectual property
Employment
Insolvency
Litigation and arbitration
Tourism and public law

Staff Figures

Number of lawyers : 13

Languages

Arabic
English
French
Spanish

Bakouchi & Habachi - HB Law Firm LLP > Firm Profile

Main Contacts

Department Name Email Telephone
Managing Partner Kamal Habachi kamal@hblaw.ma 0522473702

Languages

Arabic
French
English

Client Testimonials


CLIENT: ATTIJARI INVEST
TESTIMONIAL: Nabil HAYAT: h.nabil@entreprisespartners.ma

CLIENT: ABENGOA
TESTIMONIAL: Iren Moral Barbera: irene.moral@abengoa.com

CLIENT: Bluemango capital
TESTIMONIAL: m.elmandjra@bluemangocapital.com

CLIENT: EMAAR GROUP
TESTIMONIAL: TESTIMONIAL: Rahal LAGHROUDI: RLaghroudi@emaar.ae

CLIENT: International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation
TESTIMONIAL: Ahmadou Kane: AHKane@isdb.org

CLIENT: MAROC NUMERIC FUND
TESTIMONIAL: Fouad CHAGUER: f.chaguer@attijariwafa.com

Diversity/Community


Values:
Our success is rooted in our core values. These values define what we stand for as a law firm and as individuals.

Therefore, in pursuing our daily work on behalf of our clients, HB Law’s attorneys and staff are guided by certain core principles that have become ingrained in the culture of the firm:

Integrity: we set the highest goals of honesty and ethics in order to honor our commitments.

Client focus: in order to completely comprehend our clients’ requirements, challenges and goals and to make best use of the value of our services including safeguarding the security and confidentiality of their information.
Intellectual Rigor: we’re meticulous in our attention to detail, in order to extract a greater meaning from information submitted to us and support objective evaluation, decision making and innovation.

Collaboration:  in order to seek and share diverse perspectives and to function as a team with our colleagues, clients and third party providers.

Rigor, commitment, openness and entrepreneurship characterize the values ??of our firm.

Diversity/ Community:

Our firm works constantly on its human dimension in order to privilege proximity with our Moroccan or even international customers.

The complementarity of the activity of our firm, consisting of advice and litigation lawyers, and the diversity of our areas of intervention, allow us to assist advice and defend our clients in the context of negotiations and accompaniment, but also before the different courts of the kingdom.

To this end, our team benefits from constant training and upgrades and we are always on the lookout for international standards requirements.

Also, and to respond effectively to the needs of our clients, our firm maintains privileged professional relations with administrations, social partners and some international law firms.

We are, therefore, extremely demanding regarding the quality of our advice since our wish is to provide our clients with our field expertise, our passion for law and our creativity.

HB Law Firm is an independent firm, which does not prevent us from setting up a real network with foreign firms and partnerships with other Maghreb law firms, always at the service of our customers.

The firm has a vision of international openness in order to build a multidisciplinary and multicultural expertise to provide the most appropriate response to customer issues and develop our network internationally.

We have three watchwords: rigor, commitment and entrepreneurship.