Dr. Ahmed Khedr

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Leaders in Law endorses Ahmed Khedr as our exclusively recommended Corporate Affairs and Mediation Law expert in Egypt. If you wish to get in touch with Ahmed, please use the contact information provided above.

Ahmed is Advisory of Law and Corporate Affairs, Managing Partner of KLCCA Legal & Corporate Affairs (Egypt) and Chairman Board of Advice House – KLCCA (Saudi Arabia). He has a mixed background as he was an Assistant Professor of Commercial & International Commerce Law, Taibah University in KSA and the British University in Egypt and he has a background in business administration, he is a graduate of the continuing and executive education program at Harvard Business School. This background made him aware of business law with a deeper concept that targets corporate affairs services as he merged the law with business for the sake of the continuity and development of companies.

Ahmed believes that “The Law must create a value and to be one of the Business resources of your corporate” for example, clients should not be subject to waiting for future surprises or a ruling by the court. Our interest is in merging business and law together when negotiating and formulating our contracts to make them protecting our clients’ rights and avoiding future risk and make it a flexible tool for developing their business.

Ahmed has a wide experience 25+ in dealing with private businesses, public companies, and non-profit bodies starting 1992, through combat crimes of corporate, banks and capital markets, training and consulting since 2004. He has a successful track record in the Middle East, USA and Gulf areas in consulting corporate laws, commerce contract drafting, Negotiation, Mediation, Corporate Governance, Corporate Compliance & Codes systems, Compliance capital markets, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Restructuring, KPIs, Family Business Succession, family constitution , and Independent investigations to several multinational and local companies. he has the most influential record in supporting Corporate Governance in Saudi Arabia in cooperation with the IFC World Bank Group. In addition to that, he is one of the best service providers in supporting the provision of Governance and Corporate affairs to a number of higher-rated clients in the financial market.

Ahmed has been selected from NYU and LexisNexis as the legal author and advisor of many Gulf systems such as the UAE, Kuwait, and Qatar. Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce & Industry relied on Dr. Khedr’s expertise to design the first program in the Arab region to train local and international consultancy firms on the occasion of implementing mandatory application of corporate governance and compliance rules in the capital market of the UAE. He has been a member of T20 and participated in the development of the new generation administrative reform, investment policies, corporate and investment laws for the Egyptian government. He was present his opinions as independent Expert of Gulf laws upon the request of international arbitration bodies and courts in the USA and England.

Ahmed took advantage of his multiple abilities to create his own style (KLCCA style) in Mediation of complex commercial disputes as well as family business disputes in accordance with the rules of (ICC / AAA / WB), which made clients praise professionalism, ethics, speed, quality and value for money. KLCC became a haven for disputing parties from outside his region.

Dr. Ahmed is an Independent Board Member in private and public sectors.

Areas of Expertise

  • Corporate Governance
  • Corporate Law
  • Mediation Law
  • Contracts Law
  • Corporate Restructuring, M&A
  • Family Business Succession
  • Commercial Law

Firm Description:

KLCCA is a specialized international law firm with a variety of expertise in corporate affairs. We are one of the leading in the region, as we provide a variety of advisory services in many legal and corporate affairs areas. We complement those activities with advisory services in Investment, Mergers & Acquisitions, Company Valuations as well as company divestments. KLCCA Focus on Quality, Rapidly Innovate to Offer Renewable Services for your Business Sustainability.

Quality and Commitment are our focus. We make sure to provide our clients with a wide bundle of legal, corporate affairs and investment expertise, supported by the best professional practitioners, while meeting international standards and practices. We follow the principles of corporate governance in all our practices while being guided by professional codes of ethics, business standards and innovation.

Our Advice is tailored to your business requirements and objectives. We help to prepare your optimal structure, identify the most Cost-effective, ensuring that you have ability to execute your growth strategy for get a Goals and Increase Investment at acceptable levels of Risk by Global Best Practices. We Provides advice at all stages of the process. Our service offerings Innovate Prepare Business Plan, Implementation Operations Evaluation, Independent Annual Assessment and selection Right Provider.

We Maintain Sustainability and Continuity of Business in markets. We help our clients to develop and implement plans & programs for Corporate Governance, Compliance, Restructuring, Mergers & Acquisitions, Evaluation, Strategic Planning, Lead of Change Management, Design Organizational Structures and Corporate Social Responsibility, International Commerce System, local Laws and Regulations.

 

Omar Bassiouny

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Leaders in Law endorses Omar Bassiouny as our exclusively recommended M&A Law expert in Egypt. If you wish to get in touch with Omar please use the contact information provided above.

Founding Partner & Head of Corporate M&A

Omar S. Bassiouny is Partner of Matouk Bassiouny in both offices: Dubai and Cairo. He is consistently ranked in top tiers and bands by legal periodicals in the areas of corporate law and mergers and acquisitions for his considerable expertise in setting-up joint ventures and new projects in Egypt and Dubai, as well as ensuring compliance with local laws and corporate governance.

Omar is also recognized for his negotiations skills and business sense, which enabled Matouk Bassiouny’s reputation to float globally and maintained a substantial degree of efficiency and ethics.

Practice Focus

Omar focuses on all corporate matters including M&A, public takeovers, restructuring and cross-borders transactions. In addition to corporate, Omar has significant experience on all aspects of investing and doing business in Egypt.

Recent Rankings

  • Ranked as a Leading Individual – Legal 500 EMEA, 2018
  • Ranked as a Leading Individual – Chambers Global, 2018
  • Ranked in Band 1 – Chambers Global, 2018
  • Ranked as Leading Lawyer: Highly Regarded – IFLR 1000 for 2018
  • Financial and Corporate Leading Lawyer for 2017 – IFLR 1000
  • Ranked as a Notable Practitioner – Chambers Global, 2017
  • Ranked as a Leading Individual – Legal 500 EMEA, 2016.

Select Recent Experience

  • Representation of Development Partners International “DPI”, a leading pan African private equity firm on it’s acquisition of ADP fund from GB Capital Holding for Financial Investments which constituted 25% from Mashroey and 25% from Tasaheel, forming Mashroey and Tasaheel company “MNT”. Instructions included an extensive due diligence and a full legal due diligence report as each company had more than 100 branches and the report had to be in line with the most updated regulatory framework in the Arab Republic of Egypt. Transaction Value: (Closed in August 2018).
  • Representation of Tag El Melouk ( a market leader in the production of baking powder, Vanilla and salt, among other products) as local counsel in connection with selling 100% of its shares to Dr. Oetker. Instructions included conducting a vendor legal due diligence, deal structuring, preparation of transaction documents and managing the deal closing process. Transaction Value: USD 86 million (Closed in July 2018).
  • Representation of EFG Hermes in its acquisition of a New Cairo-based elementary schools’ portfolio from Talaat Moustafa Group Holding (TMG Holding), Egypt’s largest listed real estate developer. Instructions included conducting a legal due diligence, deal structuring, preparation of transaction document and managing the deal closure process. Transaction value: EGP 1 billion (closed in May 2018).
  • Representation of Arabian Holding Company on the acquisition of the entire issued share capital of the Arab Company for Services and Trading S.A.E, the affiliate of Qalaa Holdings managing the supermarket chain operating under the “Dina Farms” brand. The instructions included legal due diligence, preparing the transaction documents and negotiating the transaction terms with the sellers. Transaction value: Confidential (closed in May 2018).
  • Representation of Mubadala Petroleum as local counsel in connection with the acquisition of 10 percent stake in the Shorouk concession in Egypt’s Zohr gas field. The instructions included providing legal advices conducting legal due diligence on the Egyptian entities and review the transaction documentation. Transaction value: USD 934 million (closed in March 2018).
  • Representation of Hassan Allam Holding in their acquisition of 60% of the shares of Power Generation Engineering and Services Company S.A.E. being the largest consultancy firm in the region the field of power generation. The instructions included providing legal advices conducting legal due diligence and review the transaction documentation. The transaction value: EGP 420 million (closed in March 2018).
  • Representation of Cairo 3A in connection with the public takeover of the National Company for Maize Products (NCMP). Transaction value EGP 1.47 Billion (closed December 2017).
  • Advising SPE Capital on the exit of its investment in Orchidia Pharmaceutical Industries – a leading Egyptian ophthalmic generic medicine manufacturer and one of the fastest growing pharmaceutical companies in Egypt – through the sale of its entire stake to the American Enterprise Fund. Matter value: Confidential (closed in December 2017).
  • Representation of Maersk Drilling in divestment of its stake in the Egyptian Drilling Company – with market share of 68% – to the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) in an all-cash transaction valued at USD 100 Million. (Closed December 2017).
  • Representation of Amazon.com in connection with the acquisition of Souq.com. The instructions included providing legal advices with respect to the nature of the Egyptian subsidiaries of Souq, conducting legal due diligence on the Egyptian entities and review the transaction documentation. Transaction value: Confidential. (Closed March 2017).
  • Representation of Neptune Energy Group as local counsel (transaction internationally led by Freshfields Bruckhaus Derigner) in the acquisition of Engie E&P. Significant business acquired by Neptune includes operations in the North Sea of Norway. Matter value: USD 3.9 billion (closed in October 2017).
  • Representation of Canada-based Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. in connection with the acquisition of Amoun Pharmaceutical S.A.E. The instructions included transaction structuring, legal due diligence and drafting the transaction documentation. Transaction value: USD 800 Million plus deferred payment.
  • Representation of Abraaj Group in connection with the acquisition of a majority stake in Tiba Educational Group. The instructions included transaction structuring, legal due diligence and drafting the transaction documentation. Transaction value: USD 100 Million plus deferred payment.
  • Representation of AXA Insurance in connection with the acquisition of Commercial International Life S.A.E. The instructions included transaction structuring, legal due diligence and drafting the transaction documentation. Transaction value: EGP 763 Million.

Publications

  • Egypt, “The Legal 500: Mergers & Acquisitions Country Comparative Guide” with Mariam Auda, 2nd edition, 2018, Legal 500.
  • Egypt, “The International Comparative Legal Guide to Mergers & Acquisitions 2016”, 10th Edition, Global Legal Group, 2016, pp. 161-165.
  • Egypt, “Mergers & Acquisitions Report”, International Financial Law Review, 2016, pp.55-58.
  • Egypt, “Equity Capital Markets Global Guide”, Thomson Reuters, 2016.
  • Egypt, “Mergers & Acquisitions Report”, International Financial Law Review, 2015, pp.55-58.
  • Egypt, “Equity Capital Markets Global Guide”, Thomson Reuters, 2015.
  • Egypt Chapter, Mergers & Acquisitions, 7th Edition, the Law reviews, 2013.
  • “Venture Capital Investment in Egypt – Legal and Regulatory Issues”, International Mergers & Acquisitions Review 2004/2005, Euromoney Publications 2004.
  • “An Insight on Doing Business in Egypt”, BCA, November 2004 Issue.
  • “Equity Transactions in Egypt – Legal Regulatory Issues Faced by Inward Investors”, International Mergers & Acquisitions Review 2003/2004, Euromoney Publications, 2003.

Education

  • Cairo University: License en Droit – 1999
  • American University Cairo: Bachelors of Art in Public and International Law – 1998

Languages

  • Arabic
  • English
  • French

Professional Associations And Memberships

  • Egyptian Bar Association – Member
  • American Chamber of Commerce – Member
  • Egyptian Malaysian Business Council – Member
  • Egyptian Private Equity Association – Member
  • British Egyptian Business Association – Member
  • Egyptian Junior Business Association – Member

Firm Description:

Matouk Bassiouny is a leading, full-service MENA region law firm with offices in Cairo, Egypt (Matouk Bassiouny & Hennawy), Dubai, United Arab Emirates (Matouk Bassiouny), Khartoum, Sudan (Matouk Bassiouny in association with AIH Law Firm), and Algiers, Algeria (Matouk Bassiouny in association with SH-Avocats), as well as a country desk covering our Libya Practice.

The Firm prides itself on its in-depth understanding of cross-border cultural and business practices and on providing a commercial problem-solving approach to its legal services in supporting its clients in the region. Matouk Bassiouny is fully committed to understanding our clients’ businesses and needs.

Our attorneys specialize in advising multinationals, corporations, financial institutions and governmental entities on all legal aspects of investing and doing business in Egypt and the region.

Trained both locally and internationally in both civil and common law systems, our attorneys are fully conversant in English, Arabic and French. We are ideally placed to advise on high-profile, high-value complex matters and routinely handle cross-border and international transactions, projects and disputes in the MENA region.

Egypt

Our current regional headquarters, our Cairo office was established in 2005 and has developed into a premier full-service business law firm in Egypt.

With over 150 lawyers, we pride ourselves in our people as well as in the strong and long-lasting relationships we have built with our corporate and institutional clients over the years.

We also deeply value the bonds and synergies we have formed with numerous tier-one international law firms with whom we routinely team up with in providing the highest level of service to our clients in the most significant, high-value and sensitive transactions, projects and disputes in Egypt and the region.

 

Mohamed Agamy

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Leaders in Law endorses Mohamed Mostafa Agamy as our exclusively recommended Maritime Law expert in Egypt. If you wish to get in touch with Mohamed please use the contact information provided above.

Mohamed Mostafa Agamy is the Founder and Managing Partner of Links & Gains Law firm. Agamy is a bilingual lawyer and driven professional legal consultant; with a proven track record over 15 years of leading successfully international legal transactions. Agamy has a diverse business area of expertise across North Africa and the Middle East.

Prior to establishing Links & Gains, he was responsible as Regional Counsel at General Electric, and before that, Agamy was the Head of Legal at BG (Shell) & Petronas LNG Downstream JV. He leads successfully negotiating & closing key settlement agreements to preserve and enhance shareholders value and resolving complex disputes competently. He is Demonstrating professionally with legal analysis and reasoning across legal statuary of regions and monitor disputes before Egypt Courts, CRCICCA, ICC, Dubai courts and England & Wales Courts.

Agamy is certified for “Contract Laws” from Harvard University; edX 2018, and has LL.M, in International Legal and Commercial Transactions; 2012 “AASTM accredited by University of HUDDERSFIELD, UK” with thesis “Arbitration Role for settling Oil & Gas Disputes”.

Mohamed was appointed as an expert Cross border Associate “CBA’ exclusively for Egypt, particularly in M&As, corporate transactions, commercial litigation, advisory on due diligence with exposure awareness for high-rank legal issues of Oil & Gas and Energy sector, with indefinite expertise in Aviation, Shipping, Logistics and taxation as well. Please read more of the credentials and track records as herein below:

Credentials

Aviation

  • Successfully negotiated and advised for deed of settlements on behalf of one of the Gulf Airlines, and stock release within 6 airports’ warehouses and a fleet of aircraft (Air Bus 320) with total amount USD 30 Million.
  • Provide legal opinions on the renewal of the Aircraft leases Agreements, and supervised the claims and disputes regarding the operations and charter contracts with a Mega Switzerland Co.,
  • Drafted purchase agreements for Kuwaiti chartered airline and Cargo Airline Co. and represent both entities with the Civil Aviation Authority in Egypt.
  • Advised clients for Aircraft Purchase Agreements for private aircraft with total amount USD 8,000,000.
  • Liaise with our UK Lawyers to act on a compensation lawsuit with amount USD 80,000,000 before England & Wales Courts and supported with all key documentation and the strategic defence/ pleading and other evidence that supports the case.
  • Represents local Airlines in litigation cases before the Egyptian courts including Employment, civil and commercial lawsuits.

Oil & Gas Power Renewables Energy

  • Advised General Electric for the nuclear power Project Plant of “Dabaa” in Egypt, and the EPC liabilities with GE Power with a deal value as published USD 700 Million, and honoured a recognition as an excellent deal negotiator for the nuclear liability.
  • Contributed in the due diligence necessities of the merge and acquisition of Shell “Egypt” over British Gas within their affiliates LNG in the West Delta Deep Marine, Egypt.
  • Advised Idku Liquefied Natural Gas for the process of securities release for assets with about over USD 2 billion, and reviewed all the facilities agreements and termination notes.
  • Advised Egyptian LNG Co. for the mitigation plan of highly impact tax due to government cancellation of a private free zone (GAFI) of amount EGP 270 million per year.
  • Represented ORJ (Petrochemical, SUEZ) in a number of litigation lawsuits and dispute resolution and retained on the shareholder accounts of value more than USD 2.3 Mil.

Corporate, M&A’s and Taxation

  • Represented GE in reclaiming the VAT taxation for the EPC contracts in regards to EGYPT Electricity emergency plan, and successfully retained EGP 189 Million with a settlement negotiation with the Ministry of Finance.
  • Advised ELBEHERA Liquefied Natural Gas for the stamp duty that was deducted from a Bank in Egypt, with approx. amount USD 480k, and succeeded to reclaim it with a wise negotiation with the bank and the Tax Authority.
  • Advised LOTUS HOTELS AND RESORTS in negotiations for ST Agreements and M&A of about USD 30 Million.
  • Advised the British University in Egypt for Turnkey Construction contracts with a total amount of USD 7 Million.

Firm Description:

Links & Gains is an independent specialized law firm, based in Cairo, Egypt, that linked to diverse international association with lawyers and advisors across the globe. Our core areas of expertise are commercially oriented with a deep focus on our clients’ needs and achievements when we provide our legal services. We are consistent in the standard of excellence that we bring to our clients.

Our diverse understanding of business and extensive industry experience has positioned us to offer a wide range of specialized services that would consider the real gains to our clients.

Values

What keeps us different is that; we fully appreciate our clients’ necessities of being driven by time-deadlines and urgency. We, in turn, strive to deliver top professional services to our client base. We pride ourselves on cementing long-term relationships with the primary focus on client success.

Our goal is to provide our clients with the best legal solutions, the competitive edge, representation available and at a reasonable cost. Thus, we are proud of the high legal conduct and ethical standards that have been established by our firm policy and the tradition of excellence that we work to maintain.

Hire your Counsel

We recently thought about a unique service that provides the “Outsourcing Counsel” This special service as “Outsourcing Basis” for our clients who don’t have legal department or at least in-house lawyer, whereby as lead example, we provide on-going legal counsel to be hired solely for your company account, and to support your routine legal matters and daily practices.

Companies that have their own legal departments may use only “General Counsel Services” as a temporary or permanent extension of their in-house legal team to handle spikes in work or outsource certain legal tasks at a cost-efficient rate.

Responsibility

At Links & Gains, we seek to provide top legal services based on the highest code of conduct, values and professional standards and we take our responsibilities to our clients, our people, our suppliers and the communities in which we do business seriously. We are proud of our culture of responsibility which strives to govern how we work, how we interact with clients and the local government, and how we participate in our local community.

We have great anticipation towards improving the legal community and always support new bar registered lawyers with full awareness and understanding the distinct challenges that could create as well as we seek the best future for the society.

This responsibility motivates us to build up a real model of an independent law firm with a multi-cultural spirit and smartly tailored advantages to suit all our team with diversity and with zero tolerant discrimination.

 

Dr. Tarek Riad

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Leaders in Law endorses Dr. Tarek Riad as our exclusively recommended Dispute Resolution Law expert in Egypt. If you wish to get in touch with Dr. Riad please use the contact information provided above.

Admitted to Bar, 1980, Egypt; 1985, New York.

Education and Positions
  • Trainee, Crocker National Bank – London Branch (June – November 1976);
  • Trainee, Wells Fargo Bank – San Fransisco (June – November 1977);
  • Cairo University (LL.B., 1980);
  • Harvard University Law School (LL.M., 1982; S.J.D., 1985).
  • Member of Council of State , 1981.  Lecturer in Private International Law, Cairo University Law School, Beni Suef Branch, 1982 – 1988;
  • Associate, Paul Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison (New York), 1983 – 1984.
  • Special Legal Counsel to the Speaker of the Egyptian People’s Assembly (1994 – 2001).
  • Member of the Egyptian Government Legislative Committee of the Ministry of Economy (1997-2000).
  • Member of the Ministry of Economy’s Egyptian Government Committee in charge of reforming the legal regime of the Capital Market (1997-2000);
  • Professor of Law and Deputy Director of the Centre René-Jean Dupuy pour le Droit et le Développement of Senghor University (Université Internationale de Langue Française au Service du Développement Africain, Alexandria – Egypt (1999 – 2003);
  • Associate member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrations (London).
  • Registered as Arbitrator and Panelist in the special Roster of the Dispute Settlement Body of the World Trade Organization.
  • Member of a legislative Committee of the Ministry of Justice responsible for amending the Investment Law (2003).
  • Member of the Economic Committee of the Supreme Policy Council and Chairman of the two subcommittees responsible for drafting the Companies Law and the Economic Courts Law (2002-2005).
  • Member of the Scientific Council of the ICC World Business Law Institution (2005 to present).
  • Professor of Commercial and Business Law and head of the Business Law Department at the German University in Cairo (2003 to present).
  • Managing Partner, Tarek Riad – Legal Consultants and Attorneys at Law, the successor of Kosheri, Rashed and Riad – Legal Consultants and Attorneys at Law, (1990 to date)
Memberships
  • The Bar Association of Egypt
  • American Bar Association
  • American Arbitration Association
  • American Society of International Law
  • Egyptian Society of International Law
  • The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (London).
Languages
  • Arabic
  • English
  • French.

 

Ragy Soliman

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Leaders in Law endorses Ragy Soliman as our exclusively recommended Capital Markets Law expert in Egypt. If you wish to get in touch with Ragy, please use the contact information provided above.

Ragy Soliman is the Managing Partner of ADSERO- Ragy Soliman & Partners and heads the M&A and Capital Markets Practice Group. Ragy has over 20 years of experience in the legal and telecom field. He served on several boards of London, New York, Egyptian, Milan and Hong Kong Stock Exchanges listed entities among other non-public entities in various jurisdictions.

Ragy holds an unparalleled track record in legal, strategic, operational and financial management. With experience which includes senior management positions at both holding and operating companies’ levels. Experience in managing businesses in multiple geographies with a focus on value creation; strategic and operational efficiencies; and sourcing, structuring and executing large M&A transactions across several geographical regions. Mr. Soliman played a pivotal role in the merger of major telecom companies for a total consideration of $25.7 billion to create the world’s sixthlargest telecommunications carrier.

Languages

  • Arabic
  • English

Memberships

  • Egyptian Bar Association
  • American Chamber of Commerce
  • Italian Chameber of Commerce

Education

  • 2000 – LLM International Business Law London Metropolitan University
  • 1997 –  LLB Cairo University

Firm Description:

Adsero – Ragy Soliman & Partners is a law firm that aims to provide its clients with unparalleled quality services and innovative legal solutions with a global reach.

By handling legal, strategic, operational and financial matters, we have developed a depth of expertise that is well rounded. Our services incorporate structuring, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, debt finance, corporate governance and complex high-stakes commercial and securities litigation.

Our lawyers have a breadth of experience in several jurisdictions – a valuable resource that allows us to offer practical cross-border solutions.
Establishing a robust geographical reach across the Middle East and North African, Asian, American and European continents in public and private markets has enabled us to offer our clients a diverse network of legal and service providers. These deep-rooted connections with our partners have been instrumental in maintaining international reach and wealth of knowledge.

 

Mohamed Abdelgawad

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Leaders in Law endorses Mohamed Abdelgawad as our exclusively recommended TMT Law expert in Egypt. If you wish to get in touch with Mohamed, please use the contact information provided above.

Mohamed is a Co-Founding Partner at ADSERO – Ragy Soliman & Partners. He heads the firm’s Corporate, Commercial and Regulatory department. Although Mohamed has diversified experience in multiple legal disciplines, including corporate M&A, projects and finance, dispute resolution, and general corporate and commercial legal services, he is now focused on leading the firm’s non-transactional corporate and commercial matters.

Mohamed has broad expertise in general corporate and commercial matters, including contracts law, regulatory and compliance, services agreements, licensing and IP, franchising, employment and anti-bribery.

Mohamed has developed a market lead in the TMT and life sciences sectors with several landmark transactions and a solid base of strategic clients. In addition, Mohamed regularly advises most prominent technology and telecommunications companies on various legal matters, including cyber security data protection, fintech and electronic signature.

Mohamed is identified as a market expert in the life sciences sector. He has advised on the Egyptian aspects of most global transactions in the pharmaceutical industry in the past decade.

Experience

Advised the Sovereign Fund of Egypt on the exploitation of Tahrir Complex through a bidding process for the development and management of a multi-purpose facility by private investors.

Advised the Sovereign Fund of Egypt on the establishment of partnerships with national investors and reputable management companies for the development and operation of green field K-12 schools.

Advised Siemens Mobility on the mega High-Speed Train project with the Egyptian government.

Advised the Unified Purchasing Authority on the incorporation of its holding investment company and the transfer of Al Masria and Al Gomhoreya companies to the Unified Purchasing Authority.

Advising Amazon on several and diversified matters relating to the transitioning of Souq into Amazon pursuant to Amazon global standards and policies.

Media Coverage & Publications

Representation of the technology companies in a speech presented before the Egyptian parliament highlighting comments and concerns by the technology community on the proposed draft of personal data protection law.

Published an article, which provided an overview on the regulations of the medicinal product on Thomson Reuters Practical Law.

Published an article, which provided an overview on Pharmaceutical IP and competition law in Egypt on Thomson Reuters Practical Law.

Published an article on the regulatory framework for the Food and Beverage Industry, published in Law Today quarterly magazine (Q4 2016 issue).

Published an article, which provided an overview on Egypt Personal Data Protection.

Languages

  • Arabic
  • English

Memberships

  • Egyptian Bar Association
  • American Chamber of Commerce
  • British Egyptian Business Association
  • German Arab Chamber Of Industry & Commerce

Education

  • PhD Candidate at Cairo University Law School
  • 2010 – Master of Laws (LLM), Cairo University
  • 2008 – Bachelor of Law (LLB), Cairo University

Firm Description:

Adsero – Ragy Soliman & Partners is a law firm that aims to provide its clients with unparalleled quality services and innovative legal solutions with a global reach.

By handling legal, strategic, operational and financial matters, we have developed a depth of expertise that is well rounded. Our services incorporate structuring, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, debt finance, corporate governance and complex high-stakes commercial and securities litigation.

Our lawyers have a breadth of experience in several jurisdictions – a valuable resource that allows us to offer practical cross-border solutions.
Establishing a robust geographical reach across the Middle East and North African, Asian, American and European continents in public and private markets has enabled us to offer our clients a diverse network of legal and service providers. These deep-rooted connections with our partners have been instrumental in maintaining international reach and wealth of knowledge.

 

Mona Zulficar

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As a founding partner and chair of the Executive Committee, Ms. Mona Zulficar oversees the operations of the Firm’s six departments; specialized in assisting our clients in various practice areas. A practicing attorney for more than 30 years, she is a specialist in major financial, industrial, and commercial transactions and has negotiated, drafted, and concluded all the major contracts required by some of the most important joint venture businesses in Egypt. Involved in major restructuring of companies, M&A transactions, and is particularly recognized for handling ground breaking and precedent transactions, such as the largest transaction in the history of the Middle East relating to the sale of Orascom Building Materials Holding SAE to Lafarge, for approximately USD13 billion in addition to USD2 billion of assumed debt, and most recently, she lead the team responsible for the first successful PPP Project in Egypt.

She has played and continues to play a key role in drafting new legislation and developing existing economic legislation as adviser to the various governmental entities and as member of the national drafting committees on many important laws, such as the new Telecom Law, the new Capital Market Regulations, the new Special Economic Zones Law and the new Banking Law regulations. She has also been appointed as a member of the Board of Directors of the Central Bank of Egypt and is directly involved in the ambitious Egyptian institutional and regulatory reform program of the banking and finance sector. Complementing her professional activities with a commitment to community activism, she has been an active advocate for human rights and women’s rights in Egypt and internationally. She has recently been elected member and Vice Chair of the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee and she is also a member of the National Council for Human Rights in Egypt. In 2009, she received la legion d’honneur from the President of France Nicolas Sarkozy for her significant professional role in concluding landmark commercial and financial transactions between Egypt and France and for her achievements in the field of human rights.

Ms. Zulficar obtained her political science and law degrees from Cairo University and Mansoura University and an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Zurich. Her working languages are Arabic, English and French.

Mona Zulficar

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As a founding partner and chair of the Executive Committee, Ms. Mona Zulficar oversees the operations of the Firm’s six departments; specialized in assisting our clients in various practice areas. A practicing attorney for more than 30 years, she is a specialist in major financial, industrial, and commercial transactions and has negotiated, drafted, and concluded all the major contracts required by some of the most important joint venture businesses in Egypt. Involved in major restructuring of companies, M&A transactions, and is particularly recognized for handling ground breaking and precedent transactions, such as the largest transaction in the history of the Middle East relating to the sale of Orascom Building Materials Holding SAE to Lafarge, for approximately USD13 billion in addition to USD2 billion of assumed debt, and most recently, she lead the team responsible for the first successful PPP Project in Egypt.

She has played and continues to play a key role in drafting new legislation and developing existing economic legislation as adviser to the various governmental entities and as member of the national drafting committees on many important laws, such as the new Telecom Law, the new Capital Market Regulations, the new Special Economic Zones Law and the new Banking Law regulations. She has also been appointed as a member of the Board of Directors of the Central Bank of Egypt and is directly involved in the ambitious Egyptian institutional and regulatory reform program of the banking and finance sector. Complementing her professional activities with a commitment to community activism, she has been an active advocate for human rights and women’s rights in Egypt and internationally. She has recently been elected member and Vice Chair of the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee and she is also a member of the National Council for Human Rights in Egypt. In 2009, she received la legion d’honneur from the President of France Nicolas Sarkozy for her significant professional role in concluding landmark commercial and financial transactions between Egypt and France and for her achievements in the field of human rights.

Ms. Zulficar obtained her political science and law degrees from Cairo University and Mansoura University and an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Zurich. Her working languages are Arabic, English and French.

Maher Milad Iskander

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Leaders in Law endorses Maher Iskander as our exclusively recommended Commercial Law expert in Egypt. If you wish to get in touch with Maher please use the contact information provided above.

Managing Partner – Lawyer

Maher Iskander is the founder and Managing Partner of the firm, and has over 30 years of practical experience in commercial and corporate law both with providing legal consultations and representing SME’s, large corporations and multi-national companies operating in a variety of sectors.

Maher is capable of representing clients before all levels of the court including the Egyptian Higher Courts in economic disputes, as well as corporate governance related litigation, for example, shareholder disputes, disputes on public take-over bids and squeeze-out procedures, joint-venture disputes, and matters involving a merger and acquisition/sale,  commercial contract or unfair competition.

In addition to the above, Maher represents clients in matters concerning white-collar crimes affecting corporate activity such as bribery, corruption and embezzlement, information technology crimes, commercial fraud and illegitimate competition.

Maher is also a strong negotiator with banks to reduce the burden of debt in cases of insolvency, with the purpose of corporate restructuring.

Maher is also has a strong background in relation to legal services in the field of mergers & acquisitions, IPO, due-diligence and corporate transactions.

Maher’s years of experience have solidified his position as one of Egypt’s most aggressive litigators, and this in turn has allowed him to gain innumerable successes for his clients.

Maher is an active member of the American,  Canadian and German Chambers of Commerce in Egypt.

Education:

  • Cairo University, Bachelors Degree (Law)
  • Cairo University, Postgraduate Diploma (Criminal Science)
  • Cairo University, Postgraduate Diploma (Public Law)

Affiliations:

  • Egyptian Bar Association
  • American Chamber of Commerce
  • British Egyptian Business Association
  • German Chamber of Commerce

Firm Description

Andersen Egypt

Our law firm is one of the oldest firms in Cairo, Egypt, having been established in 1986 under the name of Maher Milad Iskander & Co.

In 2018, we became a member firm of Andersen Global and began offering comprehensive and varied services to companies and individuals, in the legal, tax, financial and transaction advisory fields, through our team of 9 partners and 70 of the top lawyers and consultants in Egypt.

Today, we are proud to be the only international offices in Egypt offering these integrated services, and our customers can remain confident that all of their issues are handled under the same roof, and with the high professionalism and values associated with the name Andersen.

In addition to being key players in the Egyptian market in key sectors such as litigation, arbitration, mergers and acquisitions, and capital markets, we also have extensive experience in structuring, financing and managing multi-jurisdictional deals through Andersen Global’s worldwide presence, allowing us to always help our clients accomplish their strategic goals.

We are proud to be one of the highest rated international law, tax and advisory firms in Egypt, with an exceptional reputation and consistent positive feedback from our clients.

 

Hani Sarie-Eldin

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Dr. Sarie-Eldin has 21 years of local and international experience in Business Law, including Commercial Law, Capital Markets, Privatization, Corporate Finance, Project Finance, Corporate Restructures and Acquisitions. He advises on major transactions taking place in Egypt, and in the Middle East and North Africa region related to the above mentioned areas.

Moreover, he was involved in drafting various vital Egyptian Laws and Regulations such as the Egyptian Banking Law, Concession Draft Law, Antitrust Law, Consumer Protection Law, Takeover Regulation, Mutual Fund & Private Equity Regulation, Price Manipulation & Insider Trading Regulation, and Corporate Governance rules for listed companies on the stock exchange, in addition to advising various governments in the region on legal reforms including the United Arab Emirates, Libya, and Sudan.

In his capacity as Chairman of the Egyptian Market Authority, Dr. Sarie-Eldin led the regulatory capital market reform process in Egypt. Dr. Sarie-Eldin also served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Central Bank of Egypt, and was a member of its monetary policy, and investment committees, and the Trustee Council of the General Authority of Investment and Free Zones. Dr. Sarie-Eldin was also appointed to the Board of Directors of the Bank of Alexandria from 2002-2005. This Board undertook the responsibility of restructuring and developing the bank, which eventually led to its privatization as the first privatized public bank in Egypt. Dr. Sarie-Eldin is currently a member of the Board of Directors of various Egyptian corporations and Banks. His wide practical experience is also supplemented by immense academic research. Dr Sarie-Eldin has attained an Excellency Academic Award for his research in legal sciences from Cairo University in 2002.