Mohamed Abdelgawad

Practice Areas

General Corporate, Commercial, and Regulatory

Career

Mohamed is a Co-Founding Partner at ADSERO – Ragy Soliman & Partners. He heads the firm’s General Corporate, Commercial and Regulatory department. Although Mohamed has diversified experience in multiple legal disciplines, including Corporate M&A, projects and finance, dispute resolution, and general corporate and commercial legal services, he is now focused on leading the firm’s non-transactional corporate and commercial matters.

Mohamed has broad expertise in general corporate and commercial matters, including contracts law, regulatory and compliance, services agreements, licensing and IP, franchising, employment and anti-bribery.

Mohamed has developed a market lead in the TMT and life sciences sectors with several landmark transactions and a solid base of strategic clients. In addition, Mohamed regularly advises most prominent technology and telecommunications companies on various legal matters, including cybersecurity data protection, fintech and electronic signature.

Mohamed is identified as a market expert in the life sciences sector. He has advised on the Egyptian aspects of most global transactions in the pharmaceutical industry in the past decade.

Professional Memberships

- Egyptian Bar Association

- American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham)

- British Egyptian Business Association (BEBA)

- German-Arab Chamber Of Industry & Commerce (AHK Egypt)

- Egyptian-British Chambers of Commerce (BCC)

- Swiss Egyptian Business Association (SEBA)

Publications

Authored and Co-authored the following publications:

- Mandatory Recall of Expired Pharmaceuticals and Biologicals – Overview of the Egyptian Drug Authority (EDA) Decree

- Introduction of “Registered Email Service” under the Postal Law Executive Regulations

- First Egypt edition of the Legal Industry Reviews (LIR)

- Egypt chapter of Global Legal Insights – FinTech 2023

- Legal briefing on the amendments to Egypt’s Importers’ Register opening access to foreign-owned companies

- Analysis of the approved draft of the New Labour Law in Egypt

- Commentary on Free Zones and Cabinet Decree No. 2140 of 2023

- World Bank’s Women, Business and the Law 2023 report

- Representation of technology companies before the Egyptian Parliament on the proposed draft of the Personal Data Protection Law

- Overview of the medicinal product regulations on Thomson Reuters Practical Law

- Overview of pharmaceutical IP and competition law in Egypt on Thomson Reuters Practical Law

- Regulatory framework for the Food and Beverage Industry, published in Law Today (Q4-2016)

- Overview of Egypt’s Personal Data Protection Law

- Overview of the draft Egyptian Consumer Finance Law

- The evolving dispute resolution landscape in Egypt

- The Waste Management Law

- Cybercrimes Law Executive Regulations

- Waste Management Law overview

- Law No. 8 of 2022 issuing the Law of Hotels and Tourist Establishments

- New real estate regulations

Awards