Mr Mohamed Essam Sid-Ahmed > Matouk Bassiouny & Hennawy > Cairo, Egypt > Lawyer Profile
Matouk Bassiouny & Hennawy Offices
12 MOHAMED ALI GENAH STREET
GARDEN CITY
CAIRO
Egypt
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Mr Mohamed Essam Sid-Ahmed
Work Department
Corporate and M&A - FinTech & ECVC
Position
Partner and Head of FinTech & ECVC
Career
Mohamed is a Partner and a Corporate and M&A team member. He also heads the firm’s FinTech, Emerging Companies & Venture Capital (ECVC) sector group. Mohamed has extensive experience in finance and technology and a combined knowledge when it comes to FinTech. Mohamed also advises on commercial, M&A, and capital market transactions. He advised on a variety of complex FinTech and M&A deals and assisted the biggest players in the FinTech industry ranging from local, regional, multinational, and international clients.
Mohamed’s practice focuses on all matters relating to FinTech companies (including savings, payments, and crowdfunding) on their negotiations with the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) and the commercial banks with the aim of obtaining CBE’s permit to operate, as well as advising start-ups on their different levels of fundraising including, seed, pre-series A bridge, series A to series C which transactions are usually consummated via either convertible notes, KISS notes or SAFEs. Furthermore, Mohamed advises on complex M&A transactions which entail drafting, reviewing, and negotiating, inter alia, preliminary agreements (e.g., term sheets, LoI, MoU), the transaction documents including SHAs, SPAs, SSHA in addition to advising on the deal structure from tax efficiency perspectives.
Languages
Arabic, English and French
Memberships
- Egyptian Bar Association – Member
Education
2021 Kaplan QLTS (London, England) – UK Bar Exam Candidate (expected)
2017 Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels, Belgium) – Corporate Finance Diploma
2017 Panthéon Sorbonne University (IDAI Cairo) Masters’ Degree in International and European Business Law, Trade and Tax
2016 Cairo University (Egypt): Bachelor of Law
2015 Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne (IDAI Cairo): Bachelor of Law
2015 Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels, Belgium) – Social Psychology and Profiling Diploma
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution: arbitration
- Dispute resolution: litigation
- Energy
- Projects and infrastructure