Matouk Bassiouny & Hennawy

Matouk Bassiouny is a leading full-service MENA law firm with over 230 lawyers operating out of its offices in Cairo, Egypt (Matouk Bassiouny & Hennawy), Dubai and Abu Dhabi, 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).

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.

Our lawyers specialize in advising multinationals, corporations, financial institutions and governmental entities on all legal aspects of investing and doing business in the MENA region. Trained both locally and internationally in civil and common law systems, our lawyers are fully conversant in English, Arabic, French and Korean.

Our firm stands out in the market due to our unique capabilities and resources, which can be tailored to the specific legal and commercial needs of our clients.

Regional resources. Our firm includes more than 230 lawyers and 34 partners. We have a support staff of over 120. Our four offices are strategically located to better serve our clients’ business interests across the entire MENA region. Additionally, our firm is consistently investing in the latest knowledge-sharing technologies that help expedite our work process.

Local law expertise with international quality. Our lawyers are experts in local law and licensed to practice and plead across our jurisdictions. Our lawyers have also gained extensive international exposure having studied or worked abroad. As we routinely advise international corporations, we are deeply ingrained with international best practices.

In-depth sector understanding. Our firm collectively has access to a vast amount of knowledge and experience. We harness this information via our 18 sector-focused groups that support our practice groups. We are therefore able to deliver legal services catered to the industry-specific needs of our clients.

Commercial approach. Our mission is to find the most innovative and cost-effective solutions for our clients, as we understand that our clients need to derive maximum value from their legal spending. We do this by maintaining a proactive commercial approach to all our legal services.

Preferred MENA region legal advisor. Our firm is the preferred choice of multinational and local blue-chip clients, and we routinely partner with top-tier international law firms.

Top-ranked law firm. Matouk Bassiouny is consistently ranked as a top-tier law firm by prominent legal publications.

Our lawyers are fully committed to understanding our clients’ businesses and needs. We are organized within four main practice groups and routinely work on the following types of matters:

Capital Markets

• Bond issuing
• Funds management
• IPOs
• Privatizations
• Capital Increase
• Secondary offerings
• Listings and delisting
• Dual securities listings
• Securitization

Corporate and M&A

• M&As
• Corporate restructurings
• Joint ventures
• General corporate advisory
• Corporate establishments
• Company secretarial
• Venture capital and start-up legal incubation
• Anti-trust
• Intellectual property
• Employment
• Data privacy/ICT and media
• Financial technology
• Tax

Dispute Resolution

• Litigation
• Administrative law
• Contract disputes/agency and distribution
• Enforcement
• IP litigation
• Labor and employment
• Product liability
• Securities
• Tax and customs
• Investment treaty arbitration
• Commercial arbitration
• Sports arbitration
• FCPA-related investigations
• Domestic and international investigations and claims
• Transnational organized crime
• Financial crime
• Anti-money laundering
• International judicial cooperation
• Anti-trust regulatory investigations
• Regulatory filings
• Mediation and negotiations

Finance and Projects

• Asset finance
• Corporate and investment grade lending
• Derivatives and structured finance
• Islamic finance
• Leveraged and acquisition finance
• Project structuring
• Project development
• Project and infrastructure finance

We have also developed core sector focus capabilities organized into 18 specialized sector groups:

• Aviation
• Banking
• Consumer goods and retail
• Education
• Energy and water
• Healthcare
• Heavy industries
• Hospitality
• Insurance
• Life Sciences and pharmaceuticals
• Non-banking financial institutions
• Private equity
• Public procurement
• Real estate
• Sports
• Technology, media and telecommunications
• Transport and logistics
• FinTech & ECVC

As the leading law firm in the MENA region, our resources, expertise, and experience are second to none in the market. Our teams provide top-tier legal advisory services while consistently creating value for our clients.