Zineb Idrissia Hamzi

Key Qualifications:

• PhD in Law – University of Law, Economics and Political Science, Aix-Marseille III – France.
• Postgraduate Diploma in Insurance Law – Institute of Higher Education in Insurance Law, Aix-Marseille III – France.
• Advanced Graduate Diploma in Law – University of Law, Economics and Political Science, Aix-Marseille III – France.
• Master’s degree in private law – Faculty of Legal, Economic and Social Sciences, Casablanca – Morocco.

Main Areas of Expertise:

• Corporate and M&A
• Contract Law
• Labor Law & International Mobility
• Social Litigation & Social Arbitration
• Transport and Insurance Law
• Project finance

Practical languages: French, English & Arabic.

Professional Background:

Admitted to the Casablanca Bar, since 24 April 1996.

Founder of Hamzi Law Firm, since 1st July 1999.

Lecturer at the Moroccan Institute of Business Law:

(Subjects taught:

• Company Law – main subject in the context of the preparation for the D.E.S.S in Business Law, Delocalized Diploma of the University Pierre Mendes France of Grenoble;
• Labour Law – preparation for the D.E.U.G. in Law;
• Contract Law – continuing education cycle.)

Ex-consultant with the general confederation of companies in Morocco:

• Commission “Companies & Professional Relations” 2003-2005;
• Social commission – participation in the drafting of the new labor code as well as the implementing decrees – 2004-2005.

Former President of the Tax and Company Law Commission, within the Moroccan Federation of SMES.

Since November 2011, Mrs Hamzi is certified as a mediator, by the Center of Mediation and Arbitration of Paris (CMAP).

She has been agreed as member of the scientific board of the center for Mediation and Arbitration of the Franco-Arab chamber in Paris.

Mrs Hamzi is qualified to act before the supreme court of cassation and to execute real estate acts.

Attorney Hamzi is ranked, as leading business lawyer, in Morocco, by chambers global guide, IFLR 1000, or Decideurs Magazine (Leaders League).