Expertise

• Corporate law, with particular expertise in:
  • Companies and investments
  • Commercial law
  • Banking and financial services
  • Labour law
  • Governance and compliance
  • Legislative and regulatory reform
  • Environmental law and sustainable development

• Foreign languages: English and Arabic

Background

• Member of the Africa Team
• Joined the firm in 2020

• Previously senior legal consultant at Thebes Consultancy (2016-2020)
• Consultant at the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (2015-2016)
• Consultant at Bank Information Center in Washington, D.C. (2014-2015)
• Associate at Baker & McKenzie’s Cairo office (2012-2014)
• Worked with the Legal Transition Programme at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London (2011-2012)
• Associate at DLA Matouk Bassiouny (2006-2009)

Qualifications

• Member of the New York State Bar (2014)
• Qualified lawyer in Egypt (2006)
• LL.M from the University of California, Los Angeles (2010)
• LL.B from Cairo University Faculty of Law (2005)