Maître Rania Chawad
Rania Chawad is a lawyer since 2012. Her practice focuses on corporate, mergers and acquisitions, employment and real estate transactions.
Prior to launch her firm, Rania gained experience in main international law firms in Paris and Casablanca such as Naciri & Associés Allen & Overy, Baker McKenzie, and Gide Loyrette Nouel.
She regularly advises domestic and international clients (investors, industrial operators and private entities) in various legal fields, mainly in cross borders mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, employment and business law. She focus also on employment and commercial litigation.
Drawing from her experience in diverse business cultures, Rania Chawad has been involved in major transactions in Morocco and Africa and has advised large international companies in their investments in Morocco.
Rania Chawad is fluent in French, English, and Arabic
Our key clients
Our team
Our international partners
José Luis Gálvez Martín
Lawyer in Malaga, with over 35 years of professional practice. Expert in social security law, labor law, administrative law, and immigration law. He is also a certified social worker. He has held management positions in the State administration and local administration.
Hinde Zaari Bendani
I am an Arabic and French interpreter and translator for the courts in Malaga, Spain. I am also responsible for immigration matters.
Focus areas
M&A/Private Equity
Assistance with company sale or acquisition operations (partial contribution of assets, asset sale, joint ventures, mergers, etc).
Social law
Drafting legal documents (employment contracts, settlement agreements, documents related to employee terminations).
Commercial Law
▪ Drafting of various commercial contracts
▪ Assistance in the framework of competition law (control of concentrations and anti-competitive practices)
▪ Advice on e-commerce
▪ Advice on distribution law
Business litigation
• Representation of clients in litigation related to business law
• Representation of clients in litigation related to social law
• Assistance to clients in the context of collective proceedings.
Corporate
• Creation of new entities and subsidiaries (also in offshore areas).
• Maintaining legal secretarial duties.
• Assisting foreign investors in their establishment process and obtaining necessary authorizations from competent authorities (Office des Changes or Conseil de la Concurrence).
• Dissolving and changing the structure and governance of corporate documents.
Real estate law
• Writing and negotiating construction contracts.
• Writing and negotiating hotel management contracts.
• Assistance in drafting, executing, renewing, and terminating residential, professional, and commercial leases.
• Assistance in the transfer of lease and transfer of business assets.
Intellectual property/Personal data
• Filing of trademarks and patents.
• Drafting of contracts for the transfer or licensing of intangible assets.
• Assistance with obtaining authorizations and declarations from the National Commission for Data Protection Control.
• Advice related to regulations for the protection of personal data.
Governance & Compliance
▪ Compliance, conduct, and ethics audit.
▪ Review and analysis of compliance with anti-corruption and anti-money laundering regulations implemented by companies.
▪ Analysis of risks related to executive responsibility and customer awareness.
▪ Identification and prevention of risks, particularly those of a criminal and ethical nature.