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Ifriqya Online Directory
An added value Directory of North African International Arbitrators & ADR practioners verified and qualified by IAF.
Aïcha Brahma
Arbitrator
Nationality: Moroccan/French
Aïcha BRAHMA has extensive experience in the enforcement of international arbitral awards and foreign judgments, in complex litigation, and in international and domestic commercial arbitration. Since 2016, Aïcha has joined BRAHMA AVOCATS, a Moroccan independent firm which practice dates back to the early 70’s. From 2018 until 2024, Aïcha has represented Morocco within the ICC International Court of Arbitration and is an approved arbitrator of the Moroccan Court of arbitration, the main Moroccan arbitral institution.
Identified for 5 consecutive years as among the world’s leading arbitration practitioners in Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration & Litigation, Aïcha regularly publishes in the main legal reviews and is regularly invited to speak and to share her experience in Morocco and abroad regarding namely, the arbitration field.
- 2016: Attorney at Law at Brahma Avocats (Casablanca, Morocco)
- 2014 – 2016: Associate at Hajji & Associés (Casablanca, Morocco)
- 2011 – 2012: Teaching Assistant at Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense (Paris, France)
- 2011 – 2013: Associate at Genet Colboc Goubault (Paris, France)
- 2010 – 2011: Associate at Cabinet Manseau Associés (Paris, France)
- Dec 2013 – June 2014: Visiting student at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) (California, USA)
- 2007 – 2008: Master 2 in European and International Law (with honors) Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense (Nanterre, France)
- 2006 – 2007: Master 1 in International Private and Public Law (with honors) Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense (Nanterre, France)
- 2003 – 2006: Bachelor in General Private Law (with honors) Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense (Nanterre, France)
- 2023: IBA Subcommittee Country reports: “Local requirements for the extension of an arbitration clause to, and enforcement of the award against a non-signatory” & “Local requirements for the validity of the arbitral award”
- 2020: African Construction Law Review (ACL), Moroccan Chapter.
- 2019: Kluwer Arbitration, Smart Charts – Moroccan Chapter: Contribution to “Drafting arbitration agreements, Appointment and challenge of arbitrators, Confidentiality and State immunity“
- Sept 2016: ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (YAF), conference “The role of the arbitrator is to seek and provide justice”
- June 2015: LexisNexis, Interim measures in the context of international arbitration in Morocco, enforcing arbitral awards in Morocco
- June 2012: Institut du Monde Arabe, Chambre de Commerce Franco-arabe, Colloque L’exécution des sentences arbitrales au Maroc
- 2009: Revue Critique de Droit International Privé, “Choix de la loi applicable aux contrats du commerce international : des principes de La Haye ?”
- 2018: Approved arbitrator at the Moroccan Court of Arbitration
- 2018: Member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration
- 2010: Admitted at the Paris Court of Appeals
- 2016: Admitted at the Casablanca Court of Appeals
- Arabic (native)
- French (fluent)
- English (proficient)
- Spanish (proficient)
