I. What you should know about arbitration in the Middle East and North Africa: It is every entrepreneur’s nightmare when quarrels with a business partner end up in court. The risk of this happening is greater when there is a clash of very different business cultures, and even more so in a volatile economic and political …

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Unless a commercial agent or a simple branch office is suitable for the needs of entering the Moroccan market, there is a wide range of companies available to us there, familiar from continental European law. Moroccan company law provides for the following company forms: – the joint-stock company (regulated by Law No. 17-95) on the …

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By establishing a branch in Morocco, a foreign company can expand its business without the need to create a company under Moroccan law. The term branch refers to a stable entity that belongs to a parent company and has a certain degree of management and direction autonomy, but does not have legal personality.

If you want to expand your business and enter the Moroccan market, you should first decide whether to set up a subsidiary (independent legal entity) or a branch (without its own legal personality).

Speaking of the rule of law and doing business, the Maghreb countries Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria are not those that many would usually think of in particularly outstanding terms. Rather would the Nordic countries or Singapore spring to mind, and, in fact, they do lead most relevant rankings. Frankly, reaching those countries’ levels of efficiency …

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