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ALGERIA: Law office of Yamina Kebir
Head office: 110 rue Enfantin 16000, Alger, Algeria
Telephone: + 213 (0) 21 74 40 88 & + 213 (0) 21 74 92 19
Email: yhkebir@yahoo.fr
The Law Office of Yamina Kebir was established in 1982. The firm provides its clients with
the full range of legal services in connection with their businesses in Algeria. The areas of
practice include commercial and corporate, investments, acquisitions, banking, labour law,
telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, intellectual property, and litigation. Clients include
state-owned companies, multinational corporations, banks, airline companies. Foreign clients
account for eighty per cent of the firm’s client base. Work is handled in English, French and
Arabic.
The firm has recently acted on the following matters:
Acting as borrower’s counsel to Orascom Telecom Holdings in connection with the
financing of their investment in Algeria worth Euros 400 million. The firm assisted its client
throughout the whole process of the negotiations with lenders, providing legal advice on
Algerian law issues, reviewing all financing documentation and proposing amendments, in
particular negotiating security contracts with lenders, co-ordinating the work with lenders’
counsel and the notary, preparing all relevant documentation for signing the same;
preparing the documentation for meeting the conditions precedent and checking the
conditions precedent have been satisfied;
Advising and assisting a client on a major infrastructure project (East - West Motorway)
involving the negotiation with the Government entity acting as Employer; drafting of the
relevant documentation and assistance on a day to day basis.
Advising and assisting a leading food corporation in an acquisition in Algeria; carrying out
the due diligence, and assisting in the negotiations, drafting of the various agreements
and the articles of association;
Advising and assisting multinational corporations on their investment in Algeria and on
setting up Algerian subsidiaries, either wholly-owned or in partnership with Algerian
companies; drafting of joint venture agreements, license agreements, articles of
association; providing clients with continuing advice on day-to-day operations and on the
performance of contracts;
Advising and assisting engineering companies on their joint ventures with
Sonatrach and Sonelgaz involving drafting and negotiating joint venture
agreements, shareholders agreements, articles of association;
Advising and assisting a leading pharmaceutical corporation on the setting up of its
two joint ventures with State owned companies involving negotiating and drafting
joint venture agreements, shareholders agreements, articles of association;
Advising and assisting a foreign corporation in their negotiations with the Algerian
authorities and on the setting up of a joint venture for port management; carrying
out the due diligence, drafting and negotiating joint venture agreements;
advising an English based bank in connection with loans to Algerian companies;
Yamina Kebir
Email: yhkebir@yahoo.fr
Yamina is a member of the Algerian Bar authorized to appear before
the supreme court and the Conseil d’Etat of Algeria. She is Head of
the legal department at the Société Nationale de Sidérurgie (State
owned company).
DEA Droit des Affaires (post graduate degree in Business Law)
University of Paris II, Panthéon-Assas. Diplôme de Droit Comparé
(degree in comparative law) University of Strasbourg (France),
Dipôme de traduction juridique Français Anglais, (diploma in legal
translation : English-French) University of Paris II Panthéon Assas
Licence en Droit University of Algiers.