Rym Loucif (Loucif + Co)

Rym Loucif, the founding partner, has been working in Algeria for more than ten years in local and cross-border transactions concerning acquisitions, disposals, and privatisations. Loucif + Co also has acclaimed knowledge in matters of reorganisations (mergers, demergers, spin-offs, and partial business transfers).

With long experience in partnerships between foreign investors and Algerians, Loucif + Co offers its leading expertise in putting alliances and strategic joint ventures in place between foreign investors and local partners, while offering its clients innovative forms of contractual protection. 

Our practice in Algeria covers various highly-regulated business sectors (such as energy, natural resources, the pharmaceutical industry, transports, tobacco, the sector of banking and finance).

Loucif + Co assists its clients in all matters of Algerian employment law.

Loucif + Co assists and advises its clients in putting employment contracts in place, in managing the individual employment relationship, in negotiations with employee representative bodies, in the process of terminating the employment relationship (dismissal, negotiated termination, or employee transfers).

Loucif + Co has developed specific expertise in business reorganisations and managing the employment aspects of such projects to provide optimal legal certainty.

Finally, the firm regularly works alongside employers in their relations with the competent labour inspectorate.

The Loucif + Co team assists and advises its clients in reviewing the contractual documentation and in putting actions in place to protect and preserve intellectual property rights.

Loucif + Co assists its clients in matters of insolvency law and proceedings (presentation of the legal framework, consequences of judicial settlement or bankruptcy proceedings, recommendations for the period preceding the cessation of payments, etc.).