Ali Bougrine

With more than 20 years of experience, Ali Bougrine is head of the Africa Desk in Paris and managing partner of UGGC Africa.

Although focused on mergers and acquisitions, Ali’s practice is nevertheless multidisciplinary since he regularly intervenes in structuring of international investment, complex contracts as well as in litigation and arbitration.

Ali exercises his activity both in France and abroad, especially in the Maghreb and in Africa with the support of the teams in the office of Casablanca and the Africa Desk.

Ali usually advises major industrial and financial groups, Moroccan and international (mainly French and British), numerous investment funds as well as Moroccan administrations and para-public entities.

MEMBERSHIPS

• Representative of the Interlaw network in Morocco
• Representative of the WLA (World Law Alliance) in Morocco
• Member of the International Association of Lawyers (“ULA”)
• Member of the “Association Française d’Arbitrage” (AFA)
• Member of the French Association of Investors for Growth, France Invest
• Member of the Moroccan Business Lawyers Association (“AJAM”)
• Member of the Moroccan Association of Capital Investors (“AMIC”)
• Morocco Representative of the BNP Trade International

CONFERENCES

Ali enjoys pursuing a pedagogical activity in Casablanca and abroad by regularly leading many conferences and formations about Mergers & Acquisitions and international investments.

• Conference LexisNexis – Ikone Juris and UGGC Africa: On March 17, 2021, Ali Bougrine and Fabien Gagnerot were speakers at the conference “Acquisitions and sale: how to master the negotiation of your asset and liability guarantees?”
• Casa Business Law Forum : on December 14 and 17, 2020, Ali Bougrine and Laurent Sablé were speakers at the Casa Business Law Forum organized by LexisNexis and Ikone Juris
• Lecturer at the Ecole de Formation du Barreau de Paris – EFB
• Lecturer and animator of training sessions at Francis Lefebvre Formation Group since 2010
• Lecturer for the Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA) since 2015