Zaki Hashem

Firm Details:

Managing Partner: Yasser Hashem

Senior Partners: Sameh Khodeir, Hala Hashem, Omar Abou Elenain, Shaaban Gaballah

Number of Partners: 26

Number of Fee-earners: 100

Languages: Arabic, English, French, German, Italian

Firm Overview:

Established in 1953, Zaki Hashem (ZH), Attorneys at Law, is the oldest and largest law firm to be actively – and uninterruptedly – catering to the needs of foreign and local clients in the Egyptian business sector. The Firm covers the largest spectrum of areas of practice among other law firms in Egypt. With over 100 fee earners and 170 employees, all advocates of professional excellence and integrity. The mixture of senior associates, partners and of counsels with unique individual experience records exceeding 40, 30 and 20 years allows ZH&P’s younger team members to tap on a wealth of knowledge transferred through the mentorship of highly seasoned lawyers. The experience accumulated by ZH over the past 70 years has reinforced the Firm’s on-the-ground presence at all relevant public authorities – empowering the Firm to adeptly provide accurate real-time legal services and to expertly contrive innovative commercial and legal schemes for clients conducting business in Egypt.

Main Areas of Practice:

Banking & Finance

Capital Markets (IPOs, Bonds, Securitizations)

Competition & Anti-Trust

Compliance

Corporate & Commercial

Corporate Restructuring

Dispute Resolution (Arbitration & Litigation)

Distributorships and Agencies

Education

Employment & Labour Law

Energy & Renewables

Engineering & Construction

Franchise

Hospitality & Tourism

Insurance

Intellectual Property

International Foreign Investment

Mergers & Acquisitions

Mining

Oil & Gas

Projects & Infrastructure

Real Estate

Start Ups

Taxation

Telecommunications, Media, and Technology (TMT)

Corporate, M&A:

■ Advising Hewlett Packard in its acquisition of Samsung Electronics’ business in Egypt (USD1.05 billion)

■ Advising Arab Cotton Ginning Company in its corporate restructuring (including horizontal split into two companies)

■ Advising Mondi Industrial Bags B.V. in its acquisition of National Paper Products Company and Suez Bags

Capital Markets:

■ Advising on the Initial Public Offerings of eFinance, BPE Holding for Financial Investments, M.M. Group for Industry and International Trade, Raya Contact Center, Egypt Foods, Orascom Construction, Talaat Moustafa Group, Palm Hills Development, etc.

■ Advising on the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and 10th securitizations by CORPLEASE

■ Egyptian Legal Counsel to the joint lead managers of Egypt’s USD 30Billion Global Medium Term Note Programme

Banking & Finance:

■ Advising UK Export Finance and JPMorgan in the ca. EUR 1.885 Billion Loan to the National Authority for Tunnels towards the Construction of Two Monorail Lines in Cairo

■ Advising responsAbility Investments AG (Swiss agriculture fund) on the financing extended to Green Valley SAE

■ Advising Middle East Oil Refinery on its USD 2.3 Billion Modernization, Upgrade and Expansion of a New Refinery

Telecommunications:

■ Advising Vodafone Egypt Telecommunications since incorporation in 1998 on all legal and regulatory matters and advising on its licenses and telecommunication agreements

■ Legal counsel to Fawry for Banking & Payment Technology Services since its establishment in Egypt in 2008

■ Advising Global Peering Exchange LTD in obtaining the first and only data center license in Egypt

Projects:

■ Advising the Egyptian Government in the design, procurement (EPC), and O&M of the High Speed Railway Ain Sokhna - New Alamein

■ Advising Majid Al Futtaim in its cooperation with the Egyptian Government towards establishing 100 Carrefour Retail Malls

■ Advising RATP DEV on the Operation and Maintenance of Cairo Metro Line 3

Energy:

■ Advising British Gas and Phillips Petroleum in the establishment of their activities in Egypt and their concessions (Philips Petroleum received the first concession granted to an American company)

■ Advising INVAP in the second Nuclear Research Reactor and the Radioisotopes Project in Egypt

■ Advising the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation in the first forward sale of crude oil agreement (USD 1.5 billion)

■ Advising the Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company in its EPC contract within the Egyptian-Saudi Linkage Project

Dispute Resolution (Litigation, Arbitration, Labor, Employment, IP):

■ Representing Pepsi Cola Egypt in the case filed against a sugar supplier

■ Representing the majority of international hotel chains operating in Egypt in employment cases

■ Won multi-party arbitration raised by a state-owned telecommunication company against ZH&P’s client, Vodafone Telecommunications Egypt (EGP 11 billion)

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