Ouns Lemseffer, lawyer, is the managing partner of Ashurst’s Casablanca office. Ouns specializes in project finance, structured finance, restructuring and financial market operations in the Francophone Africa region. She is also active in M&A and private equity, particularly in the energy and infrastructure sectors in North and West Africa.

She is a board member of CGEM, the General Confederation of Moroccan Enterprises in Morocco and part of the Energy Transition Commission (working with the Government on the legal and regulatory evolutions in the energy sector).
Ouns is continuously distinguished as a Leading Lawyer and one of the most influential lawyers in the energy sector in Africa. She is ranked by Jeune Afrique among the 30 best lawyers in Africa.
Ouns has been a lawyer at the Paris Bar since 2012 and speaks French, English and Arabic fluently.