Donia El-Mazghouny

Languages Spoken

Arabic, English and French

Experience

Donia is the founder and managing partner of Mazghouny & Co. She specialises in energy law, with a focus on energy and power agreements, and regularly advises clients on the development, financing and acquisition of energy and infrastructure projects in Egypt. She further advises on transactional matters, corporate and commercial agreements, joint ventures, corporate structuring, and labour matters notably in the energy and power, manufacturing and services fields. She has recently advised on the first green hydrogen and ammonia projects being developed in Egypt, as well as the first solar with BESS project, and advised sponsors on the issuance of the first green project bonds in Egypt worth USD 334.5 million.

Donia is the Vice-Chair of the Power Law Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA), and a member of the Association of International Energy Negotiators (AIEN). She regularly speaks at conferences in and outside Egypt and publishes on clean energy issues.

Donia is identified as an “Energy Expert” by Who’s Who Legal and recommended by Chambers and Partners and Legal500 for Energy and Projects & Infrastructure, and she has won Lexology Client Choice award 2021 for Energy & Natural Resources. She was also shortlisted for the Egypt “Lawyer of the Year” 2024 award by Legal500.

Education

Work Highlights

- Acting as local counsel to sponsors on the development and financing of the first electrolyser to produce green hydrogen at 100MW capacity for use by EFC’s ammonia manufacturing facility in Ain Sokhna, Egypt.

- Acted as local legal advisor to Scatec on its Obelisk 1GW PV + 200MWh BESS project in Qena for the sale of electricity to EETC.

- Acted as local legal advisor to Scatec on the refinancing of the non-recourse project debt for 6 solar power plants in Benban, with a total capacity of 380 MW, through the issuance of investment-grade 19-year USD 334.5 million non-recourse Green Project Bonds, certified by the Climate Bond Initiative.

- Acted as legal counsel to the Benban Solar Developers Association (BSDA) in connection with the EGP 1.6 billion settlement of the Cost Sharing Agreement cost overrun dispute with State-owned EETC, and drafting and negotiating the settlement agreement on behalf of all 32 Benban project developers.

- Advised the leading renewable energy company juwi on the construction of world’s largest solar hybrid project at the Centamin off-grid gold mine in Egypt, with a capacity of 36 MW bi-facial solar and 7.5 MW battery-energy storage system.