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ACR LAW FIRM
ACR LAW FIRM is the first professional company of lawyers to have been created in Tunisia in 1998, and whose structure allows the distribution of work based on the specialties of each of its members.
The company is composed of 5 associates plus many collaborate lawyers with various legal skills and specialties.
Among its most important departments include the Department of commercial law and company law in which lawyers have engaged several of the most extensive expertise in the field of economic and commercial legislation.
The company also includes a Real estate business & contracts department dealing with legal advice on property development and drafting of major contracts.
ACR is composed of lawyers who have acquired significant expertise in the judicial field plus experience in litigation, teaching in colleges, and within parliamentary committees of laws, and work within administrations, international organizations, banking organizations. Because of its importance, the company has been registered at the INNORPI (public office in charge of registration of trademarks).
Among the
company's clients include a significant number of financial institutions, large
national companies, trade groups and tourism, branches of foreign companies. Its
clients also included a significant number of Tunisian investors and
industrialists plus foreign missions accredited in
The company works in Arabic, French and English.
In the
context of supporting foreign investment, ACR protects the interests of some
foreign companies wishing to open branches in
ACR
provides legal consultations in major markets and prepare the various acts
relating to distribution and representation, leasing, and contracts related to
petroleum activities.
ACR also provides its services to benefit individuals by providing all
consultations.
The company is involved in relations between Tunisian and foreign investors to
promote the Tunisian product assuring its place in the international market.
Alongside the sector of council and drafting of acts, ACR provides its traditional mission in the field of litigation, defending clients before various tribunals both judicial and administrative, and before the Competition Council. ACR monitors litigation and provides legal consultations with all the expertise of its associates and collaborators.
The new
headquarters of ACR is now at 13, Avenue Alain Savary - Tunis-Belvédère, and its
branch in Sfax, 2nd largest city, thus ensuring proximity to
administrative, financial and economic groups of the country and proximity to
major industrial zones (Charguia in
The associates lawyers:
- Me Mohamed Moncef Barouni, Attorney at law before the Cassation Court
Born in 1948. Law degree from the Faculty of Law and Economic Sciences of Tunis. Holder of a diploma from the Ecole Nationale d'Administration. Admitted to the Bar of Tunisia in 1972. Member of the Economic and Social Council for 6 years. Former World President of the International Junior Chamber. Former President of the Tunisian American Chamber of Commerce. Founding member of ACR.
- Me Adel Kaaniche, Attorney at law before the Cassation Court
Born in 1948. Law degree from the Faculty of Law and Economic Sciences of Tunis. Admitted to the Bar of Tunisia in 1975. He practised various administrative and judicial responsibilities before becoming lawyer. Deputy in 1989, he chaired the Committee on legislation and administrative organization. Adviser to various social associations, trade unions and sports associations. Founding member of ACR.
- Me Ahmed Benmansour, Attorney at law before the Cassation Court
Born in 1936. Law degree in public law from the Faculty of Law and Economic Sciences of Tunis. Served in the administration, specializing in administrative management (staff and resources). Appointed president of the instruction section of the Administrative Tribunal in 1973. Government Commissioner and President of the Chamber until 1996. Lecturer at the Ecole Nationale d'Administration and Institut Superieur de Gestion. Advise member of representative associations of Tunisian and international Scouts. Former board member of the Tunisian Association of Administrative Sciences. Founding member of ACR.
- Me Naïm Ben Hariz, Attorney at law
Born in 1964. Master degree in Private Law from the Faculty of Law of Casablanca. Began his career with the most important phosphat group. From this experience, he has taken know-how in matters of trade and international contracts. Member of several national associations. Great expertise in agricultural investment, tourism and industry. Expert in funding including that relating to Islamic financial institutions. Admitted to the Bar of Tunisia in 1996. Founding member of ACR.
- Me Kais Belghith, Attorney at Law
Born in 1974. Law degree from the Faculty of Law of Sfax. Doctor of monetary law and stock exchange law of the Faculty of Law of Montreal. Considered among the experts on financial investments and stock exchange law. Taught in Montreal. He practised as a lawyer in an important law firm in Canada before joining ACR where he heads the branch of ACR Sfax, 2nd city of the Tunisian Republic.
The collaborate lawyers:
- Me Iadh Bezzai, Attorney at law
Born in 1974. Law degree in private law and Master degree in contracts and investments law from the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of Tunis. Admitted to the Bar of Tunisia in 1999. Titular teacher in private law and criminal sciences at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of Tunis from 1999 to 2006. Former member of the scientific committee of the research unit « Laboratory of Law of Enterprises, Investments and Business ». He has developed a know-how in social law thanks to his activities of lawyer and legal adviser of multinational companies. Member and legal counsellor of the Association of Training Managers and Human Resources Managers of Enterprises.
- Me Rym Barouni, Attorney at law
Born in 1975. Law degree in Private Law section judicial law in 1998 and Master of law of contracts and investments in 2001 of the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of Tunis. Admitted at the Bar of Tunisia in 2002 performing in ACR. She taught civil law and introduction to law study at the Private University of Tunis-Carthage. Specialist in commercial and corporate law. Active member of the Association of Friends of Child Protection and the Association for Euro-Mediterranean studies.
- Me Ismaël M'rad, Attorney at Law
Born in Nantes (France) in 1981. Attorney at law in ACR since 2005. Law degree in Business Law in 2003 and Master degree in contract law in 2004 of the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of Nantes. Specialized in drafting deeds, legal research, mergers and acquisitions.
- Me Souhir Kaddachi, Attorney at Law
Born in
1969. LL.M. degree in judiciary law in 1994 from the Faculty of Law and Legal, Political
and Social Sciences of Tunis II. Graduated from the Ecole Nationale
d'Administration (superior cycle) in November 1998. Master in Public Law of the
Faculty of Law and Legal, Political and Social Sciences of
- Me Narjess Zalila
Born in
1968. Law degree from the Faculty of Law of Sfax in 1993. Graduate Diploma in Real
Estate Law of the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of
- Me Najla Eljazi
Born in 1974. Law degree in private law from the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of Tunis in 1998. Master degree in contracts and investments law in 2001. Admitted to the Bar of Tunisia in 2003. She taught labour law, company law and commercial law at the Higher Institute of Technological Studies for 4 years.
The departments of the company
Whatever the size of the investor's nationality or the area where he plans to invest, ACR is able to provide the necessary consultations to enable him to initiate his activity in suitable conditions. ACR makes him receive all the benefits of Tunisian law. ACR provides all the cases to its customers and directs them to the most protected sectors. ACR makes contact with foreign companies through its network of relationships with leading foreign law firms.
ACR develop acts of companies and supports large pre-contractual negotiations, including through negotiations with the State when it comes to specific projects.
The activity of ACR is shared between 5 departments:
1 - Department of Commercial and Company Law:
The evolution of business, corporate, law, investment, industrial property has necessitated the creation of a special department dealing with this topic. This department is composed by several lawyers with expertise providing multiple consultations, drafting of statutes, follow special procedures concerning administrative permits and granting tax benefits, help to companies in difficulty by proposing solutions of backup or liquidation. Along with consulting work, this department ensures all the legal procedures of companies and their representation before the courts.
2 - Department of Civil and Real Estate Law:
This department handles with all matters concerning civil law and property. It presents therefore any legal advice concerning civil, real estate, urban and environmental litigations. To this end, it writes all kinds of sale deeds, mortgage, share deeds plus drafting of joint ownership rules.
With their expertise, ACR lawyers write important deeds and prepare legal files of developments.
This department monitors the litigation of the recording, enlisting in the real estate tribunals, allowing ACR clients to obtain in a prompt and effective action to release the land titles.
3 - Administrative and Tax Law Department:
With the expertise of ACR lawyers, consultations are provided in tax law in conjunction with accountants.
ACR defends physical and legal persons in their disputes with the administration before the various courts, including the administrative tribunal.
4 - Department of criminal business law:
This department keeps track of various records relating to criminal business law cases. It ensures to this end legal advice to avoid all the faults liable to criminal prosecution.
This department also provides representation for clients in criminal cases related to business law.
ACR
represents the interests of its clients from the stage of instruction until the
5 –Department of Social Law:
Given the links between companies and their employees and the consequences of this relationship at the time of recruitment and individual or collective dismissal, and given the proliferation of employment litigation within enterprises, ACR has established a special department dealing with social law.
It develops to this effect all labour contracts. It informs investors of the content of collective agreements giving them the necessary consultations in connection with individual or collective dismissal. It provides the opportunity to represent them before labour council courts and the various courts.
6 - Department of Arbitration:
Ratification by Tunisia of the Code of national and international Arbitration Procedure in 1993 has enabled the development of arbitration, given the flexibility and speed that characterizes this kind of resolution of various commercial litigation. To this end, ACR lawyers have assured several arbitration missions and have played an important role in obtaining solutions and awards.
Based on this observation, one can easily argue that ACR is now able to provide all the important tasks in arbitration with the probity of its lawyers and their many and varied expertise enabling them to participate in all arbitration committees to resolve various disputes, particularly those relating to business contracts, contracts of hotel lease, banking litigation, commercial, marine.
Note that ACR jurisdiction extends to transportation in all its forms, environmental law, customs law, sports law, tourist investment law, agriculture and energy law.
