Telecom Egypt has a portfolio that makes it the largest provider of fixed line services in the Middle East and Africa. The telecommunications company, which has a history spanning over 160 years, offers a complete range of international services, including voice, data, colocation and tailored data solutions.

Telecom Egypt connects more than seventeen cable systems through seven diversified routes and five landing stations across Egypt, meaning that the legal team has had to keep abreast of the variety of regulation and jurisdictional nuance that this expansion brings. Led by legal manager Mahmoud Mohamed, the team has provided critical advice on a number of transformative deals. Most recently they had significant input into the collaboration with Ciena, a network strategy and technology company, to create a resilient optical mesh network to meet increasing demands for high-bandwidth services on its national terrestrial network and submarine links between the Mediterranean and Asia.

Mohamed has personally had considerable contribution to management and advice on business as well as legal matters. This has seen him taking a guiding role in dispute resolution, contract drafting and negotiations. As well as handling domestic and international customer relations, the legal team also supervises regulatory change in a competitive market that often has fast-moving processes.