32 Acquisition International - March 2017 HAMZI LAW FIRM is a Morocco based business law firm that was founded by Mrs Zineb Idrissia HAMZI, who we invited to speak more about what they do, following their success in winning the African Excellence award for Morrocco. he main challenge in Morocco is that many areas of the law have not been regulated to date, including certain types of financial transactions or contracts. When faced with a lack of regulation, we draw inspiration from the practices applied in other more advanced legislation, taking into account, however, the mandatory provisions of Moroccan law, in particular the law of obligations and contracts. This challenge however is also very stimulating because new laws are adopted by Morocco and they have the advantage of being inspired by international conventions and the most advanced and innovative regulations. For more than seventeen years, HAMZI LAW FIRM has developed an extensive experience assisting local and foreign investors, from Americas, Asia- Pacific and EMEA, and offering a high level- expertise on consultancy or contentious matters, touching on all business and commercial issues. HAMZI LAW FIRM is able to supply its clients’ legal assistance as well as its institutional network, within the framework of operations of international growth, and development. As a Moroccan correspondent to many foreign law firms, and as expert referenced by international organisations, the firm has become a natural one-stop-shop for companies seeking to invest in Morocco. Such companies appreciate the capability of its teams to provide advice, in an international environment, and to speak many foreign languages such as English, Spanish, German, French and Arabic. The firm was founded in July 1999. It is based in Casablanca, but is able to intervene everywhere in Morocco, and more widely in the Maghreb and Company: Hamzi Law Firm Name: Zineb Idrissia Hamzi, Managing Partner Email:
[email protected] Web: www.hlf.ma Address: Résidence GRANADA, N°96 A, Boulevard El Massira, 20360 CASABLANCA, MOROCCO. Phone: +212.522.39.39.06/31 , +212.522.95.19.12 H amzi L aw F irm Together to sustain your projects A Stimulating Challenge T 1703AI08 West Africa countries too. The firm has assisted by correspondents’ network through Morocco, the Maghreb area, and West Africa, as well as a network of experts and recognised statutory auditors. Our main areas of expertise include, principally, corporate and M&A, real estate, energy and projects, economic law, insurance and transportation, contract enforcement and labour related. The firm has, also, developed specific expertise in energy and infrastructure projects, acting for energy industry entities, in the renewable energy sector. Our staff play a major role in the success of our firm. This is due to our teams of dynamic, responsive and rigorous collaborators that the firm can grow and continue to grow. Our teams make it a point of honour to respond, as close as possible to the requirements of the clients, and within the timeframe set by them. We are fully aware that our clients have to make strategic decisions, often in an emergency, and that they depend on our advice, provided on time. A multidisciplinary approach that allows us to offer our clients a very diversified range of skills, which we constantly enrich, thanks to the opening of new activity departments and the hiring of employees to high level training and skills. This allows our clients to find, with a single interlocutor, the answer to the majority of their needs in legal assistance, in advice as well as in litigation. This approach, which secures and reassures the clients, allows us to retain our clients for many years. The majority of them are clients of the firm since their establishment in Morocco. What sets us apart Constant innovation and adaptation to clients’ needs and market developments are the two main factors that set us apart from our competitors. For example, as the crisis has generated new needs for our clients, the firm has improved its expertise in providing legal assistance for legal, tax, and social restructuring. The firm has also expanded its international network by cooperating with new networks of firms’ business leading lawyers. Again, and in order to support the changing needs of our clients and to better defend their interests, the firm has participated, as a founding member, to the “With the signing of several free-trade agreements (with European Union, USA, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia, WAEMU) Morocco also offers access to a market of 55 countries representingmore than 1 billion consumers and 60%of world GDP .”