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Company Secretarial Services in Morocco

In Morocco, company secretarial services — secrétariat juridique, or corporate housekeeping — cover everything that keeps a company in good standing after formation: general meetings, minutes, statutory registers, filings with the commercial register and OMPIC, and the beneficial-ownership register. We provide this as a continuing service for foreign parent companies that own a Moroccan SARL, SA or SAS, and for international law firms that need a reliable corporate-compliance provider for a client's Moroccan subsidiary. The work runs remotely for the parent — in English, German or French, with your legal department as our counterpart — while signatures, registry filings and notarial steps are handled by us on site in Rabat and Casablanca.

What We Cover

  • Annual approval of accounts and the ordinary general meeting, within six months of the financial year-end
  • Statutory registers and minute books, including the certified share register and pre-numbered minute books
  • Beneficial-ownership register (Registre des Bénéficiaires Effectifs): initial declarations and updates via OMPIC
  • Filings with the Registre de Commerce and OMPIC formalities, including publication requirements
  • Appointment and removal of gérants, directors and auditors, with the required majorities and filings
  • Share transfers, capital increases and reductions, conversions of company form and amendments of articles
  • Registered office changes and domiciliation arrangements under Law 89-17
  • A corporate calendar with deadline monitoring for every entity under our care
  • Coordination with your chartered accountant, the commissaire aux comptes and the Office des Changes
  • A corporate health check of existing registers, minutes and filings at the start of every engagement

The Legal Framework

The annual cycle is prescribed by Law 5-96 for the SARL and Law 17-95 for the SA, as amended by Laws 21-19 and 19-20 — which now permit videoconference board meetings for the SA — together with the Commercial Code (Law 15-95), whose Title VIII, added by Law 89-17, governs domiciliation. The beneficial-ownership register was created under Law 12-18 and is managed electronically by OMPIC; Law 53-05 and Law 43-20 govern electronic signatures and trust services for documents that no longer need wet ink.

The deadlines carry real sanctions. A gérant who fails to file required documents with the court registry faces imprisonment of one to six months or a fine under Article 108 of Law 5-96, and directors of an SA face equivalent exposure under Law 17-95. Most compliance failures we see are not substantive breaches but missed deadlines, unsigned minutes and unfiled changes — exactly what a maintained corporate calendar prevents.

How We Work

Every engagement starts with a corporate health check: we review the entity's registers, filings, minutes, articles, beneficial-ownership declarations, OMPIC records and domiciliation status, and where something is missing we deliver a remediation plan with a clear timetable.

The entity then moves onto an annual retainer covering the full compliance cycle — meetings, minutes, registers, filings, the corporate calendar — with ad hoc corporate changes such as manager appointments, share transfers or capital measures handled at an agreed scope as they arise.

Drafting, review and approvals run electronically with the parent company; where Moroccan law requires physical presence — court registry filings, notarial acts, bank formalities, original certified registers — we act from our own offices in Rabat and Casablanca. For the full legal detail, see our guide on the annual corporate compliance cycle of a Moroccan subsidiary.

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