Salma Chaari

ABDELLY & ASSOCIATES LAW FIRM has grown considerably since the ‘90s. Today, through its legal practice with nearly 20 attorneys, legal advisers and experts, the firm is the best positioned on the local and regional market to offer its clients a unique breadth and depth across every facet of law for business and legal issues. ABDELLY & ASSOCIATES is involved in Tunisia and North Africa’s most prominent deals, including privatisation operations, M&A, BOO, BOT, PPP in various industry and services sectors. Having developed its professional network over the last 25 years, the local and regional expertise of the firm have been trusted by the most reputed international law firms in Europe and the US, including: Herbert Smith Freehills, Linklaters, Clifford Chance, Norton Rose Fulbright, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Baker & McKenzie, Cleary Gottlieb, Willkie Farr & Gallagher, Osborne Clarke.

Abdelly & Associates has developed a strong corporate and M&A department dedicated to national and multinationals groups engaging in various sectors of activity (services and industry), in particular, energy, telecommunications and banking and finance. By combining know-how and expert skills, the firm meets all the needs of clients by ensuring the implementation or liquidation of their projects, including legal, tax and financial due diligences reviews, corporate restructurings, negotiation and drafting of acts, titles contributions, capital investment operations/fundraising, total or partial assets contribution, IPO operations, implementation of companies, joint ventures (SPVs, etc.), subsidiaries/branches of foreign entities, legal, tax compliance and day-to-day follow up of business affairs, insolvency, liquidation, etc. Key Clients: Altadis, Anadarko, Nortel Networks Inc., Oriflame Sweeden, Merck KGaA, National Oil Varco, IMCD, Borges International Group.

The firm has a pre-eminent banking practice within the domestic and North African market with a long tradition of representing leading North African and international banks in transactions of every kind, as well as in regulatory initiatives and legislation, enforcement actions, payment system issues, anti-money laundering and corporate governance issues. Key Clients: HSBC, Deutsche Bank AG, Standard Charter Bank, Global Investment House.

As one of North Africa’s premier energy firms, the firm routinely provides legal and commercial advice to public, private, and NOCs. The major lawyers of the energy department are members of the IAPN and speakers in different conferences related to energy field domain. The firm has been involved in oil and gas and mining investments in Tunisia and North Africa for billions of dollars and represents multinational and independent oil and gas and mining companies, large-scale utilities, private power plants, energy industry service companies, refineries, petrochemical companies, financial institutions, and multinational drilling contractors. Key Clients: Shell, Sinopec, CNPCI, Cygam Energy, Petrovietnam Exploration Production Corporation, PT Medco Energi International Tbk, Gasoil Petroleum Limited, Timgad Energy, Schlumberger OFS, Greatwall Drilling Company, Baker Hughes, Breakwater Resources, Siemens Project Ventures GmbH.