Professional Biography
Omar S. Bassiouny is a Founding Partner of Matouk Bassiouny and heads the Corporate and M&A practice group, which remains the powerhouse of the firm. He also heads the firm’s private equity sector. He is consistently ranked in the top tiers and bands by legal periodicals in the areas of corporate law and mergers and acquisitions for his considerable expertise and experience in public and private M&A and capital market transactions.
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Omar regularly advises on some of the largest M&A, public takeovers, restructuring, and cross-border transactions taking place in Egypt and the region. His main clients include sovereign wealth funds, private equity funds, and multinational strategic corporations, as well as regional family offices.
Omar also keeps a close eye on legislative and regulatory changes that could affect the business landscape. For example, his firm, Matouk Bassiouny, recently shared an overview of the “Proposed Amendments to the Egyptian Competition Law”, highlighting key aspects of the Draft, including new administrative and criminal fines, a broader scope of anti-competitive practices, updated rules on dominance, the creation of a grievance committee and leniency regime, and stronger independence and enforcement powers for the Egyptian Competition Authority.
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About Matouk Bassiouny
Matouk Bassiouny is a leading full-service MENA law firm with over 270 lawyers operating out of its offices in Cairo, Egypt (Matouk Bassiouny & Hennawy); Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Matouk Bassiouny); Khartoum, Sudan (Matouk Bassiouny in association with AIH Law Firm); and Algiers, Algeria (Matouk Bassiouny).
Matouk Bassiouny’s MENA offices are supplemented by a New York satellite office dedicated to enhancing the firm’s international dispute resolution services, in addition to two country desks covering Libya and South Korea.
Trained locally and internationally in both civil and common law systems, our attorneys are fully conversant in English, Arabic, French, and Korean.
We are ideally placed to advise multinationals, corporations, financial institutions, and governmental entities on all legal aspects of investing and doing business in the region.
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