Present in Algeria since the end of the fifties, CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre decided in 2007 to create a consultancy firm in Algeria to providing its clients with the experience acquired for over half a century.
CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre Algeria headed by Samir Sayah, relying on a team of French-, English- and Arabic-speaking lawyers and tax advisors stemming from Algerian Universities, has a genuine proven expertise of the home ground, enabling to have a privileged relationship with local authorities.
As a result of local specificities and since the Algerian society has been really changing during the last 10 years, the business environment is undoubtedly renowned complex. By taking advantage of our expertise, we give you all possible means to achieve your goals throughout this country.
Our Principles
Principle of specialization: each aspect of a case is handled by law areas practitioners. When context required, expertises and track record of our departments are pooled for an optimal achievement ;
- Training requirement: young consulting are trained to our methods within the framework of a real monitoring in operational teams, concerned to transmit method, knowledge and client service strategy ;
- Thorough ethical observance: requirement for accuracy to which we aim for our clients, algerian colleagues and government authorities ;
- Safety: relied on the expertise of our doctrine departments and a thorough knowledge of one's clients, our office focuses in all circumstances on the reliability of one's advices.
Our expertise
Foreign direct investments
We provide legal advice and assistance's integrated services to enterprises aiming to set up business in Algeria:
- Strategy's optimization and investment's form;
- Structuring (representative office, branch offices, subsidiaries...);
- Negotiation and drafting of documents for joint-ventures, controlling interest taking up;
- Privatizations;
- Legal Secretarial Offices
Public procurement
- Analysis of legal risks and taxation;
- Assistance to submitting tenders and finalization of contracts when winning;.
- Performance monitoring, assistance to international arbitration procedures.
Follow-up of setting up business in Algeria
- Tax planning and registration to various local authorities
- Follow-up of formalities in the matter of exchange control regulations
- Legal secretarial offices * Assistance and consultancy in labour law, incl. immigration questions
- Follow-up of structure through a Contrat d'assistance permanente [Permanent Assistance Contract] to our legal and tax services.
Tax system
Our expertise covers following practice areas:
- Tax system of enterprises ;
- Tax system applied to expatriates ;
- Assistance to tax audit.
Energy
We assist our clients at all stages of oil and gas exploration:
- Assistance and advice to mining and oil companies within the scope of their investments and operations ;
- Assistance and advice to mining and oil subcontractors.
Labour law
We assist enterprises on every issue of labour law in Algeria:
- Drafting of employment contracts for expatriates and national employees, consultancy on labour law and assistance to relevant authorities, incl. obtainment of residence and labour permits;
- Welfare issues;
- Documents drafting for internal regulations.
Our clients
Algiers' Office clients are most of the time big international concerns operating in sectors as well varied as energy, automobile, real estate, construction, or pharmaceutical industry. Four reasons to choose our law firm
- A renowned Algerian track record: the seniority and the quality of our bonds with Algeria explain the confidence relationships we have with local authorities; confident of this experience, we take advantage of our necessary expertise to provide our clients a continuous and efficient assistance. We take in account specific problems of this country and offer so to economic domestic and international players adapted answers to one's needs, according to our quality and rigour requirements recognized to us.
- A dedicated and multidisciplinary team of lawyers and consultants, located in Algiers but also in Paris:team lawyers and advisers have a renowned expertise in the fields of law and tax system of business relations with Algeria. Ensuring homogeneity of the final service and a factual approach, in collaboration with Neuilly's departments, they let our clients profit of the synergy of expertises of our Firm and offer integrated solutions in good match between their projects and their development strategy.
- An effective presence in Algeria, ensuring adapted and practical service in good match with local regulations: further to our Neuilly's knowledge centre created since more than 50 years, we monitor statutory developments and are able to provide a complete legal and fiscal assistance in compliance with international standards.
- An international network in the service of local teams: We offer you, owing to Independent Law Firms, members of CMS Alliance, a thorough knowledge of European legal systems, permitting us to advise our clients on complex operations involving subsidiaries located in different countries.