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, operating investors and entrepreneurial families on matters where the law is not merely technical knowledge, but becomes an instrument of structuring, protection and arbitration.
Politics and economics, the local and the international, the public and the private: the firm holds them together.
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 substantive decisions within a matter are not diluted in a chain of production. The firm prefers depth of engagement to volume of work.
Professional secrecy
Professional secrecy, the French secret professionnel, covers the firm’s matters by operation of law, in the client’s interest. Beyond that protection, the firm observes a discretion it is not required to keep: no client is named without express consent, no reference is disclosed without necessity. Restraint here is a way of working, not an argument.
Network and co-counsel
The deliberately contained size of the firm allows for the targeted mobilisation of independent correspondent firms 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
- Digital state technology
- Digital regulatory infrastructure
- Energy
Geographies
- Metropolitan France
- Morocco
- Lebanon
- OHADA region
- Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal
- Madagascar
- United Arab Emirates
Transactions
- User-paid or deferred-public-payment PPPs
- 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
- EducationBusiness law, Paris II Panthéon-Assas · Econometrics · European affairs, Sciences Po
- CareerInternational firm, counsel to sovereign States
- LanguagesFrench · English · Italian · Levantine Arabic
- BarAvocat at the Paris Bar, Paris Court of Appeal
- StructureSELARL Hojeij Avocat
The founder’s practice took shape at the intersection of public administration and private transactions, through public-private partnerships and investment structuring. This dual reading, of power and of economics, guides the firm’s matters.
Take on few matters, hold them entirely.
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