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Mahmoud Bassiouny

Mahmoud Bassiouny

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Practice Areas

Mahmoud is the Regional Managing Partner of Matouk Bassiouny and heads the Finance & Projects practice group and heads the firm’s energy & water and public procurement sectors. He has over 20 years of experience in trade and project finance and the energy and infrastructure sectors. Earning him the trust of international commercial banks, export credit agencies, and major players in the energy industry. He has excellent working relationships with conventional and Islamic financiers working in the MENA region.

Career

Mahmoud’s practice focuses on engaging and catering to clients that are primarily project/finance-centric. He also advises on the strengths and weaknesses of local security available to lenders in the Egyptian market. This advice may serve any client in any field such as those pertaining to but not limited to oil & gas, energy, lenders, consultancy firms, public and private parties.

Professional Memberships

• Egyptian Bar Association

• Egyptian Business Lawyers Association

• Association of International Petroleum Negotiators

• American Chamber of Commerce

• Canadian Chamber of Commerce

Publications

• International Comparative Legal Guides: Project Finance 2022.

• Getting the Deal Through: Islamic Finance & Markets 2014.

• Bloomberg BNA VAT Navigator 2015.

• Getting the Deal Through: Loans & Secured Financing 2016.

• Organizer and Speaker at: AIPN Europe-Africa and Middle East Chapters host

• “Egyptian Concessions - Overview of Major Legal Issues”- 2016.

• Organizer and Speaker at: Norton Rose Fulbright Energy Academy 2015.

• Organizer and Speaker at the Egyptian Banking Institute (together with Clifford Chance) on “Islamic Finance and Infrastructure Finance”- 2012.

Chambers Review

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Chambers Global Guide

Banking & Finance - Egypt

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Individual Editorial

Regional managing partner Mahmoud Bassiouny heads the firm's finance and projects team. He has many years' experience advising on high-value loan transactions, with a client list that features many notable names from the financial services sector. In addition to general bank lending, he is also well versed in project finance and matters with cross-border elements.

Projects & Energy - Egypt

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Mahmoud Bassiouny is the firm's regional managing partner and also heads up Matouk Bassiouny's firm-wide finance and projects team. He is highly experienced in acting for both foreign and domestic lenders on a variety of renewable and conventional energy projects.

Strengths

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  • Mahmoud Bassiouny is always in problem-solving mode. He is focused, calm and understands our needs and the needs of the counterparties.

    Banking & FinanceChambers Global Guide
  • Mahmoud Bassiouny is a top lawyer. He has strategic thinking, he listens and treats every mandate as his own.

    Banking & FinanceChambers Global Guide
  • Mahmoud Bassiouny is excellent to work with - extremely knowledgeable, responsive and always clear in his communication.

    Projects & EnergyChambers Global Guide
  • Mahmoud Bassiouny is a top lawyer. He thinks strategically and shows great commitment to every mandate.

    Projects & EnergyChambers Global Guide

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