Après avoir exercé comme avocat à New York, Mehdi Bennani a co-fondé Bennani & Associés en 2004, avec comme ambition d’accompagner les clients internationaux dans leurs projets d’implantation et d’expansion au Maroc et en Afrique francophone.

Mehdi Bennani intervient principalement en Droit des Sociétés / Corporate sur des opérations d’acquisition et cession de sociétés, de prises de participation et d’investissement. Il conseille également en droit de la concurrence en matière de contrôle marocain des concentrations et en droit du travail.

Il intervient dans divers secteurs clés tels que l’automobile, l’industrie pharmaceutique, l’aéronautique ou encore les nouvelles technologies.

Son accompagnement sur-mesure auprès d’entités étrangères l’amène également à pratiquer de l’arbitrage commercial. Outre ses clients internationaux, les cabinets d’avocats étrangers font systématiquement appel à Mehdi Bennani pour bénéficier de son expertise et de sa profonde connaissance de l’environnement juridique marocain et africain.

Mehdi Bennani est référencé dans Legal 500 EMEA et Chambers Global :

″ Their strength is understanding what international clients want. This is a firm we think highly of in Morocco. » Mehdi Bennani is the firm’s managing partner, and has impressed a range of international contacts who say: « He is very professional and responsive, and helpful in the context of a large transaction, » and: « He’s a hard worker – very demanding of his team and himself. One feels that in his practice.″  Chambers – Morocco

″ Mehdi Bennani has been our main contact, either directly handling issues or carefully delegating to ensure that we received advice and action to his own high standards. Mr Bennani was usually available at all hours, and when not he responded very promptly; he and his colleagues with whom we engaged were patient to understand complex technical issues, and to relate those issues to the political relationship which we had with our Moroccan client. Before settling on Bennani as our go-to advisor, we tried to engage with several other practices in Morocco, usually dealing initially with the practice head: Mr Bennani in his approach, quick understanding of the issues, practical advice, clear and reasonable fees, overall professionalism, careful delegation, and clarity of response made selecting his practice an extremely easy decision″ – Legal 500 EMEA 2021

″ He was a valuable member of the deal team because of his ability to coordinate both with his own team and with local counsel in other jurisdictions.″ – Chambers Global 2021