Fabien Gagnerot
Senior Counsel, UGGC Africa
[email protected]Fabien Gagnerot is a senior counsel in UGGC's corporate department with 10 years of experience in corporate and commercial operations. Prior to joining the Casablanca office in 2021, he was based in New Delhi, India, to assist the firm's Indian desk (2012–2015) and then in the corporate team of our Paris office (2015–2020). With a main focus on M&A (acquisition, sale, joint-venture, etc) and contracts, Fabien's practice in Morocco routinely includes commercial transactions and M&A and commercial litigation.
Fabien advises numerous foreign and local companies for their projects in Morocco and in Africa, from upstream (project set-up, advisory on foreign exchange regulations and funding issues) to the actual implementation (greenfield, brownfield (joint-venture), restructuring) and to downstream issues (corporate governance of the subsidiary, branch office or joint-venture, compliance issues (personal data), commercial contracts and general day-to-day commercial matters).
He assists primarily an industrial clientele, operating in diverse sectors such as agro-food, commodities, pharma and medical devices, financial services and telecommunications.