Matouk Bassiouny UAE
Lawyers
Ayman Heikal
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Work Department
Capital Markets UAE
Position
Partner and Head of Capital Markets UAE Offices
Career
Ayman is a Partner and the Head of the Capital Markets Practice Group at Matouk Bassiouny UAE offices. He is one of the MENA region’s finest attorneys and brings more than 26 years of experience in the UAE in public and private offerings, company establishments, M&As, capital increases and reductions, strategic partnership counseling, restructuring, liquidation, and bankruptcy.
In addition to his previous active participation in drafting and negotiating numerous drafts of federal commercial, economic, and capital market laws, and their executive regulations and implementing decisions. The most important of these laws are the Commercial Companies Law, the Law regulating the Auditing Profession, the Law on Bankruptcy, and the Corporate Governance Guide on Public and Private Joint Stock Companies. He was also involved in the drafting of the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries Unified Guidelines in the field of commercial and economic laws, as he used to occupy the positions of the legal advisor to his excellency, the Minister of Economy, the legal consultant of the Securities and Commodities Authority as well as member of the board of trustees of the Corporate Social Responsibility Fund of the United Arab Emirates as well as his previous work as the legal advisor of the Ministry of Economy.
Languages
Arabic
Memberships
Education
1989 Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, master’s degree in international Trade Law: LL.M
1986 Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, Bachelor of Law: LL. B.