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We are very pleased to announce that our Partner and ICC YAAF representative Iliass Segame has accompanied the first MVYAP publication project consisting of the French translation of the new Moroccan arbitration code.

We believe that the effective implementation of mediation and arbitration mechanisms for conflict resolution requires allowing their accessibility to the entire business community in Morocco.

This initiative aims to allow, while waiting for the official text in French, to better understand the contributions and the evolution of the legal framework of the Code of Arbitration and Mediation in its new form.

Download the unofficial French translation of the new Moroccan arbitration code.

Our partner, Iliass Segame, spoke at a round table organized by Morocco VYAP and Mizan Arbitration Center by presenting his theme “Youth: Promise of a revival of arbitration in Morocco”.

Iliass Shared his perspectives on the subject:

“There is no doubt that youth is a major asset for the economic and social development of Morocco but also a valuable resource for it as a seat of arbitration in competition at the regional and continental level. This event was an opportunity to exchange, discuss, frankly, the practice of arbitration in Morocco, the obstacles and challenges that young practitioners will have to face but also opportunities to create and seize to develop and improve their skills”.

Our Partner, Iliass Segame, to join the first ICC Hold the Door Open scholars comprising nine women and 11 men after an open application process at the end of 2021, during which the ICC Africa Commission receiving a total of 78 applications from 16 African jurisdictions.

Thierry Gabuka Ngoga, Chair of the ICC Africa Commission said: “The excellent quality of the profiles received made the choice particularly difficult for the commission”.

The ICC Hold the Door Open initiative aims at training future leaders of international arbitration around the globe. The programme is focused on African practitioners, leveraging on expertise, experience and resources of the ICC International Court of Arbitration and ICC Dispute Resolution Services networks, to expand the pool of practitioners from this underrepresented region. 

Partner Iliass Segame has participated as speaker of the technology panel “Data Privacy: Que gagne une organisation au-delà de la conformité ?” to discuss issues and considerations related to Data Privacy in a panel composed of:

Pierre Dewez, CEO CERTI-TRUST, Auditor, senior expert in the fields of information security

Nasser Kettani, Founder of Hidden Clouders & Kettani Digital Consulting

El Yazid Alaoui Yazidi, Business Development & Sales, Director for International Accounts at DXC Morocco

The event was moderated by Mohamed Amin Lemfadli, Founder of Trust & Security Consulting.

We, at Segame & Maalmi, warmly thank AUSIM for their cordial invitation to this sixth edition and we express our congratulations for the organization of this exceptional event, in many respects with the presence of more than 1200 participants, punctuated by interventions of renowned panelists on current topics and networking moments with key digital players in Morocco.

Partner and ICC YAAF Africa representative Iliass Segame has participated as moderator of the online event “Pathways to Greener Arbitrations” organized by ICC YAAF Africa chapter in partnership with the Campaign for Greener Arbitrations MENA Committee.

The event gathered a broad audience from 17 countries across 4 continents and saw the brilliant participation of distinguished panel members:  

• Antonia Birt, Partner, Curtis, Dubai 
• Seema Bono, Partner, Pinsent Masons, Dubai
• Michelle Ariana Ospina Giraldo, Executive Board Member, CyberArb
• Vivek Gambhir, General Counsel, TAQA, Abu Dhabi
• Amin Hajji, President of Mizan Court of Arbitration, Casablanca.

Contacted by Médias24, our partner, Iliass Segame, gave his thoughts and perspectives on the idea of regulating crypto-assets in Morocco at a time when Bank Al Maghrib is preparing to put in place a regulatory framework allowing platforms to exchanges to operate their activities on the territory of the Kingdom.

In this regard, Iliass stated that:

“Given the scale of the regulatory project, it is appropriate to observe the most notable regulatory provisions enshrined in the countries considered to be the most favorable to the development of the crypto-asset ecosystem, including Switzerland, Singapore, Australia, and the United Arab Emirates. Despite the different approaches adopted by these countries, we can identify clear trends with which Morocco could align itself in order to benefit from the advantages of this technology in a safe and legal manner, and even become a continental hub of the industry for as long as sufficient measures for the protection of Moroccan consumers are established”.

Link to the article: https://lnkd.in/ebWSpWhb  

Our partner, Iliass Segame, spoke at the information meeting organized by the CFCIM on the theme “Mediation at the service of intellectual property” by presenting the evolution of the framework of mediation in Morocco.

The event was attended by specialists in mediation and intellectual property through the respective intervention of:

Mr. Benali Harmouch – Head of the Cooperation and Legal Affairs Department of OMPIC

Ms. Justine Ferland – Legal Case Manager of the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Maître Zineb Naciri-Bennani – Lawyer at the Casablanca Bar, Mediator of the Mediation Center for Business of the CFCIM – OMPIC-WIPO, President of the Mediation Committee of the CFCIM.

The event was moderated by Mr. Mohammed Tougani, chartered accountant and judiciary, trustee and auditor, vice-president of the CFCIM Mediation Committee.

Our lawyers, Iliass and Anas Segame, were awarded the Certificate of Animator in Industrial Property, Branding option, after several months of training, three written tests of three hours each, an oral interview and a defense of a dissertation topic.

The CAPI is issued by the Moroccan Academy of Intellectual and Commercial Property, (AMAPIC) of the Moroccan Office of Industrial and Commercial Property (OMPIC) in partnership with the National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI France), the African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

Our lawyers have shared their takeaways from the programme:

“The valuation of intangible assets and the mastery of the challenges of industrial property for national economic development are, today more than ever, at the heart of the major current concerns, more particularly in the context of the post-Covid economic recovery”.

Written by our founding partner, M’hamed Segame in collaboration with our lawyers Iliass Segame and Anas Segame, the Treatise on Civil Law is devoted to the Law of Obligations as it is regulated today by the various rules, the oldest and the most recent, and which constitutes the necessary substrate of all private law.

The theoretical analysis is supported by the most recent case law positions and certain aspects of the law of obligations are addressed for the first time in this book. In terms of form, the Treaty contains an alphabetical index, as well as citations and legal Latin expressions, making it easier to navigate between the parts, titles, chapters and sections that compose it.

Our partners spoke on the subject:

“It is quite an update, after almost three decades since the last publication in French on the subject, which is offered to readers in a format revealing a permanent concern for pedagogy despite its voluminous content (more than 1200 pages)”.

“Beyond its certain legal value, the Treaty also has an intimate moral value, particularly with regard to the circumstances that led to the realization of this project. Despite the many constraints imposed by confinement in 2020, it still had the virtue of bringing together a passionate family around a common project. The plan we had imposed on ourselves was daunting, but armed with resilience and a lot of patience, the Treaty was finally able to see the light of day”.