A Parisian house,
a cross-border perspective.
Hojeij Avocat is a Parisian boutique devoted to the law of high-stakes transactions, at the intersection of public and private affairs. The firm advises States, industrial operators, strategic investors and entrepreneurial families on matters where the law is not merely technical knowledge, but becomes an instrument of structuring, protection and arbitration.
Four movements that define the firm’s practice.
transactions.
Conduct a complex matter from the first mandate to signing, without hierarchical relay, holding the whole picture from start to finish.
balances.
Between shareholders, between partners, between States and private operators. Where interests cross, the firm draws the lines.
trajectories.
Patrimonies, governance, industrial projects. The firm secures over the long term what is built to last.
clients’ positions.
Before counterparties, administrations and lenders. To carry a position, to hold it, and to have it recognised.
The craft of a boutique,
the reach of a network.
Conduct of matters
Each mandate is led by the partner who accepted it, without hierarchical relay. This continuity of contact, now rare, ensures that the strategic arbitrations of a matter are not diluted in a chain of production. The firm prefers depth of engagement to volume of work.
Confidentiality
A significant portion of matters handled is the subject of no communication, internal or public. The firm regards discretion as a professional requirement, not a commercial argument. No client is named without their express consent; no reference is disclosed without necessity.
Network and co-counsel
The deliberately contained size of the firm allows for the targeted mobilisation of correspondents in Paris, Rabat, Dakar, Abidjan, Antananarivo, Beirut and Abu Dhabi, as well as technical counsel on specialised matters. The firm prefers to assemble a team for each matter rather than claim to do everything in-house.
Working languages
French, English and Levantine Arabic. Negotiations, drafting and appearances are conducted in the language of the matter, without systematic interpretation. This linguistic fluency is a condition of practice, not an argument.
Fields of experience of the firm.
Sectors
- Port and logistics infrastructure
- Digital identity and sovereign services
- E-taxation, e-customs, e-procurement
- Energy
- Telecommunications and data
- Agri-food industry
- Patrimonial real estate
- Distribution and international trading
Jurisdictions
- Metropolitan France
- Morocco
- Lebanon and Egypt
- Ivory Coast, Senegal
- Madagascar
- OHADA region
- United Arab Emirates
- Brussels and European institutions
Transactions
- User-paid or deferred-public-payment PPPs
- Structuring public-private partnerships
- Acquisitions of controlling blocks
- Family capital restructurings
- Shareholders’ agreements and governance
- Cross-border industrial joint ventures
- Negotiations with public authorities
- Long-term general counsel mandates
- EducationLaw, Paris II Panthéon-Assas · Sciences Po Paris (Institut d’études politiques de Paris) · Economics in France and Italy
- CareerInternational firm, counsel to States
- LanguagesFrench · English · Levantine Arabic
- BarMember of the Paris Bar
A trajectory, without display
The firm was founded following a career conducted within international structures and in contact with public administrations, on matters of strategic partnerships and investment structuring. This dual exposure, to power and to capital, informs the reading of matters and the economy of the counsel given.
The choice of a boutique, rather than a large structure, reflects a conviction. High-stakes matters are handled through continuity of perspective, not through division of labour. The client must be able to speak to the one who decides, and the one who decides must have held the matter from the first hour.
Take on few matters, hold them entirely.
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