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Julie Carla Mbakop

Associate
Casablanca
About

Julie focuses on corporate law, mergers & acquisitions and private-equity transactions.

She advises investment funds and industrial groups active across North Africa and, more broadly, Francophone Africa on the full deal-cycle: fund formation, acquisitions and disposals, corporate governance, restructurings and the related regulatory landscape.

Areas of FocusFinancial ServicesReal EstateIndustrialsLife SciencesConsumer Goods, Food and Retail
Education

  • Université Paris II Panthéon Assas – Masters' degree in Litigation, Arbitration & ADR

  • Université Paris-Est Créteil – LL.M. in Advanced International Business Litigation

  • Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne –Masters’ degree in International Business Law

EXPERIENCE

  • Advising Helios Investment Partners, an Africa-focused private investment firm, on the acquisition of Maroc Datacentre (MDC), Munisys and Medasys, creating 3MDC, a new digital infrastructure platform. The acquisition in collaboration with Fipar-Holding, a subsidiary of private equity firm, CDG Invest, aims to accelerate Morocco’s digital transformation and strengthen its position as a regional technology hub.
  • Advising Mediterrania Capital Partners on its investment in Dislog Dispositifs Médicaux through a MAD540m capital increase together with CDG Invest Growth.
  • Advising Africa50 and STOA in their joint investment in Mass Céréales Al Maghreb, a concessionaire and operator of grain port terminals.
  • Advising Africinvest, the Tunisian private equity firm, in the acquisition, through debt and equity, of Vantage Payment Systems (VPS), a payment solution company.
  • Advising Hop Lun (Hong Kong), a consumer goods food and retail business, on their acquisition of Tobago, a Moroccan clothing manufacturer as well as the acquisition Groupe Chantelle's, Morrocco operations, comprising its Famaco and Atma manufacturing facilities from Groupe Chantelle, the France based manufacturer of women's lingerie.
  • Advising CDG Invest Growth, a private equity fund, on an agreement to acquire a minority stake in Groupe Assiette Nordique, a renowned Moroccan player in the processing and distribution of seafood products. The transaction is subject to approval by Morocco's Competition Authority, the Conseil de la Concurrence.
Languages
  • English
  • French

Memberships and Affiliations

  • Paris Bar Association, 2024
  • Lawyer proficiency certificate (CAPA), Paris bar, 2023

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Hop Lun expands global footprint through key manufacturing facilities acquisition in...

19 March 2026

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+212 520 427 848
(Work, Casablanca)
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