Mr Mohamed Essam Sid-Ahmed > Matouk Bassiouny & Hennawy > Cairo, Egypt > Lawyer Profile

Mr Mohamed Essam Sid-Ahmed

+(202) 2796 2042 (ext.314) mohamed.essam@matoukbassiouny.com View profile

Work Department

Corporate and M&A - FinTech & ECVC

Position

Partner and Head of FinTech & ECVC

Career

Mohamed is a Partner and a Corporate and M&A team member. He also heads the firm’s FinTech, Emerging Companies & Venture Capital (ECVC) sector group. Mohamed has extensive experience in finance and technology and a combined knowledge when it comes to FinTech. Mohamed also advises on commercial, M&A, and capital market transactions. He advised on a variety of complex FinTech and M&A deals and assisted the biggest players in the FinTech industry ranging from local, regional, multinational, and international clients.

Mohamed’s practice focuses on all matters relating to FinTech companies (including savings, payments, and crowdfunding) on their negotiations with the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) and the commercial banks with the aim of obtaining CBE’s permit to operate,  as well as advising start-ups on their different levels of fundraising including, seed, pre-series A bridge, series A to series C which transactions are usually consummated via either convertible notes, KISS notes or SAFEs. Furthermore, Mohamed advises on complex M&A transactions which entail drafting, reviewing, and negotiating, inter alia, preliminary agreements (e.g., term sheets, LoI, MoU), the transaction documents including SHAs, SPAs, SSHA in addition to advising on the deal structure from tax efficiency perspectives.

Languages

Arabic, English and French

Memberships

• Egyptian Bar Association – Member

Education

2021     Kaplan QLTS (London, England) – UK Bar Exam Candidate (expected)

2017     Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels, Belgium) – Corporate Finance Diploma

2017    Panthéon Sorbonne University (IDAI Cairo) Masters’ Degree in International and European Business Law, Trade and Tax

2016    Cairo University (Egypt): Bachelor of Law

2015    Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne (IDAI Cairo): Bachelor of Law

2015     Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels, Belgium) – Social Psychology and Profiling Diploma