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Summary of the role

The role covers five areas of activity, each described below. Together they represent the full range of tasks that, in the Moroccan legal and administrative environment, must be handled by a dedicated paralegal so that fee-earners can remain focused on substantive legal work and client relationships.

Regulatory and Administrative Formalities - Project Finance

Morocco's administrative practice relies heavily on original wet-ink signatures, in-person legalisation and registration before multiple authorities. In a project finance context, this generates a very significant and recurring formality workload, including:

• Corporate formalities - preparation and filing of incorporation documents for special purpose vehicles (SPVs); drafting and formalising minutes of general meetings and board resolutions; updates to company by-laws; management of statutory registers.
• Commercial Registry (Registre du Commerce) - filing of incorporation, amendment, share transfer and dissolution formalities; obtaining excerpts (modles J) and certificates required for closings and conditions precedent.
• Regional Investment Centre (CRI) - coordination of the one-stop-shop formalities for company creation and amendments.
• OMPIC filings - trademark and corporate name searches and filings with the Office Marocain de la Proprit Industrielle et Commerciale.
• Legalisation of signatures and documents - organising legalisation of signatures before the competent communal/arrondissement authorities or notaries, and certification of copies, for all closing documents, corporate documents and powers of attorney.
• Notarial and adoul formalities - liaising with notaries (or adoul, for real-estate matters governed by Moroccan customary-law notaries) for authentic deeds, in particular for real security.
• Security perfection - registration of mortgages (hypothques) with the Conservation Foncire over project real estate; registration of business pledges (nantissement de fonds de commerce) and share/equity pledges (nantissement d'actions ou de parts sociales) with the Commercial Registry; follow-up on registration certificates required as conditions precedent or subsequent.
• Office des Changes (foreign exchange) formalities - preparation and filing of declarations and authorisation requests for cross-border loans, guarantees and security in favour of foreign lenders, and follow-up of registration numbers required for repatriation of funds and debt service.
• Registration (Enregistrement) and stamp duty - presenting financing and security documents to the tax administration (Direction Gnrale des Impts) for registration, calculation and payment of registration duties, which is frequently a condition for enforceability of the documents.
• Sector and administrative authorisations - assembling and filing applications before line ministries, sector regulators and local authorities (Wilaya/Prfecture) for project permits, environmental authorisations and other regulatory conditions precedent.
• CNSS and labour formalities - affiliation and registration formalities for project company employees where required as part of closing conditions.
• Certified translations and apostille/legalisation for use abroad - coordinating sworn translators and, where documents must be used outside Morocco, legalisation or apostille formalities.
• Powers of attorney and signing logistics - preparing, circulating, tracking and chasing execution of powers of attorney and closing documents that require original wet-ink signature, including courier and physical document management between Casablanca, Rabat and, where relevant, international counterparties.
• Due diligence and data room support - collecting and organising corporate and KYC documentation from clients and counterparties, maintaining data rooms and closing checklists/bibles.

Each of these steps is a precondition to a valid, enforceable and bankable financing. None of them can be safely delegated to administrative staff without legal training, and none of them is an efficient use of associate or partner time given hourly cost and the volume of steps involved in a typical financing.

Know-How Management

The paralegal is the custodian of the office's practical and technical know-how, including:

• Maintaining and updating the precedent bank (financing agreements, security documents, corporate documents, standard powers of attorney) used across PEER mandates.
• Building and maintaining checklists and playbooks for recurring processes: SPV incorporation, security perfection, Office des Changes filings, closing mechanics and conditions precedent/subsequent tracking.
• Capturing procedural know-how from each transaction (timelines, authority contacts, practical requirements not found in the text of the law) into a shared, searchable knowledge base for the team.
• Standardising templates for recurring filings and administrative correspondence to reduce turnaround time on future mandates.
• Supporting onboarding of new joiners (associates, trainees) on Moroccan procedural practice.

Legal Watch (Veille Juridique)

The paralegal organises and maintains the office's regulatory monitoring, covering in particular:

• Banking, financial and foreign exchange regulation (Bank Al-Maghrib, Office des Changes, AMMC).
• Sector-specific regulation relevant to PEER mandates (energy law and renewable energy framework, mining code, public-private partnership and public procurement rules, environmental law).
• Corporate, security and tax law developments affecting financing structures.
• Production of internal legal-watch notes and periodic client-facing updates/newsletters summarising relevant developments.

Client Watch (Veille Clients)

The paralegal supports the team's market intelligence effort, including:

• Monitoring news flow, tenders and public announcements relevant to existing and target clients (project sponsors, lenders, development finance institutions, public authorities).
• Tracking clients' upcoming projects and financing needs to inform early business development outreach.
• Monitoring competitor activity and market positioning in the Moroccan project finance space.

Business Development Support

In an office in growth mode, the paralegal plays a significant role in business development execution, including:

• Preparing and updating pitch materials, credentials and deal/track-record lists.
• Coordinating submissions to legal directories (Chambers, Legal 500, IFLR1000) and award applications.
• Organising client events, seminars and conference logistics, and supporting the drafting of client alerts and newsletters.
• Maintaining the CRM/contact database and supporting follow-up on business development actions agreed by partners.

Skills required

• Experience in a law firm or consultancy appreciated
• Fluent English (Min B2 - C1 level more pertinent)
• Proficiency in Pack Office
• Excellent syntax, spelling and grammar
• Good affinity with IT (training on Ashurst Perkins Coie tools will be provided in-house)
• Ability to adapt and be flexible given the wide variety of tasks involved
• Excellent organisational skills, able to cope with a wide range of demands
• Great attention to detail, producing precise work independently or as part of a team
• Good interpersonal skills