Global
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.
