Clifford Chance

Clifford Chance and the Association of Moroccan Business Lawyers (AJAM) award a scholarship for excellence to a Moroccan business law student

For the fifth consecutive year, the international law firm Clifford Chance, in partnership with the Association of Moroccan Business Lawyers1 (AJAM) has awarded a Scholarship for Excellence2 to a Moroccan business law student.

The Scholarship, awarded every year on academic and social criteria, amounts to EUR 5,000 a year and is intended to assist in his studies a Moroccan first- or second-year Master of Law student who is intending to become a lawyer.

The Award has been granted to Akim Ouint, a 22-year-old Business and Taxation Law Master 2 student at the University of Paris II - Panthéon - Assas and at Assas Law School.

The awarding panel was made up of two AJAM representatives: Adil Guessous, President, and Nina-Samira Tourab, General Secretary, and two lawyers from Clifford Chance: Mustapha Mourahib, Managing Partner of the Casablanca office, and Franck Coudert, Partner at the Casablanca office.

Notes:

1. The Association of Moroccan Business Lawyers (AJAM) is a non-profit-making association set up in 2009 to develop the network of Moroccan business lawyers practicing outside Morocco. The purpose of the AJAM is to support Moroccan students who wish to become business lawyers. For more information: http://association-ajam.org/association/

2. The Scholarship for Excellence is financed by the Clifford Chance Foundation. Set up in October 2008, the Foundation's purpose is to provide a focused, coordinated approach to our charitable giving and to bring together and develop sponsoring exercises undertaken by the Firm at world level to help social and cultural projects. The Foundation intends to support projects in the following three areas: access to education, access to justice and access to the banking and financial system for the most underprivileged members of society. Just over half the Foundation’s total fund of £1 million per year helps to drive the development of our global pro bono NGO partners, disaster relief and our Access to Justice Award. For more information: http://www.cliffordchance.com/about_us/corporate_responsibility/community_pro_bono.html