{"id":21962,"date":"2019-12-03T23:48:30","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T22:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simonassocies.com\/?page_id=21962"},"modified":"2019-12-04T00:52:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T23:52:39","slug":"simon-associes-africa-desk","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/simonassocies.com\/en\/simon-associes-africa-desk\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Associ\u00e9s Africa Desk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;21960&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"vc_custom_heading wpb_Array Array vc_custom_1498123966783\">Simon Associ\u00e9s Africa Desk<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simon Associ\u00e9s has developed a real multidisciplinary legal expertise dedicated to Africa, and more specifically to French, English and Portuguese speaking African countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This expertise, developed with the aim of supporting companies in securing their flow of business, money and human resource in Africa, has gradually been expanded to a fully dedicated Africa Desk, to make it possible also to carry out trade exchanges between African and French economic actors on the French market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Simon Associ\u00e9s Africa Desk has signed a priviledged agreement with an agency specializing in strategic development that provides support to companies in their project, from the development of their strategic plan to the area, up to the operational implementation on site.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the legal side, Simon Associ\u00e9s supports you thanks to its local teams, as close as possible from your projects and issues, to secure your operations such as the creation \/ closure of subsidiaries \/ JV, sending temporary or permanent employees (particularly with issues related to employment contracts \/ visas), contractual &#8211; regulatory structuring in response of tenders, coordination of pre-litigation and litigation deals, drafting of sales agreements with partners located in the area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In liaison with the Asia \/ China Desk, the Africa Desk is also a strategic central platform between Europe, Africa and China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Simon Associ\u00e9s Africa Desk now counts 4 Simon Associ\u00e9s lawyers, working together with our partners teams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Track-record\u00a0:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Support to a US company, shareholder of a Cameroonian company (regulated sector), in a shareholder dispute with the Moroccan shareholder (acts subject to French law)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Support to French companies in the creation of JVs in Algeria<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Support to French companies to monitor legal secretariat of their JVs \/ subsidiaries in Algeria (governance, annual GA &amp; dividends dispatching)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Support to a CAC40 French group in the management issues of building sites located in Algeria<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Support to a French Institution with a problem of real estate ownership in Algeria<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Support of a French company in the creation of a subsidiary in Morocco<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Support to French companies in their development though distributors in Morocco<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Support to French companies in their development though distributors in Tunisia<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Support to a French company in its project of creation of a subsidiary in France with Tunisian partners (Tunisian exchange regulation issue (currency exit from Tunisia \/ dividends transfer to Tunisia), detention by a Tunisian citizen of a bank account abroad (France))<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Support to French companies in their development though distributors in Egypt<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Support to French companies in the framework of sending French employees on missions in French-speaking African coutries such as Egypt &amp; Senegal (employment contract, resident visa &#8230;)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Support to bidders on markets in French-speaking Africa (Senegal) and English-speaking areas (Ethiopia)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Support of a South-African company in the creation of a subsidiary in France<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<div class=\"btn-black text-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonassocies.com\/en\/simon-associes-in-france\/\">Others Simon Associ\u00e9s Law firms<\/a><\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<div class=\"btn-black btn-right text-right \"><a href=\"\/contact\/\">Contact Simon Associ\u00e9s Paris<\/a><\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;21960&#8243; 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