Mr Mohamed Riad > Riad & Riad > Cairo, Egypt > Lawyer Profile

Riad & Riad’s corporate and M&A team consists of specialists across a broad spectrum of areas, with high-value M&A, joint ventures, regulatory affairs, corporate governance, and commercial contracts considered to be key strengths. Fatma Salah brings strong private equity experience, while Eman Riad and Mohamed Riad have been involved in numerous cross-border M&A transactions. The practice is active in a wide variety of high-growth sectors, including life sciences, pharmaceuticals and TMT.

Riad & Riad’s team is ‘generally great and sophisticated with employment law matters’, covering the range of employment, labour and social insurance laws, including gig work, HR compliance and handbooks, restrictive covenants, discrimination and employment termination. Eman Riad jointly leads the practice and consistently demonstrates ‘outstanding legal knowledge and provides clear legal advice on labour laws’. Co-head Mohamed Riad has a strong reputation for labour and employment disputes, regularly handling a number of complex termination and dismissal cases.

The ‘dedicated and experienced’ energy and project finance team at Riad & Riad is ‘highly knowledgeable’ in both local and cross-border finance transactions, having regularly acted for various clients across the renewable, oil and gas, and infrastructure sectors. Fatma Salah and Mohamed Riad are leading figures within the practice and offer extensive experience resolving energy-related disputes for local and international corporations. The team has also established a strong reputation for advising developers on solar and waste-to-energy projects.

Riad & Riad has an excellent reputation for advising on project and infrastructure work in Egypt, with a particular focus on handling corporate structuring, authorisation, development and financing issues relating to major projects. Mohamed Riad co-heads the practice with Fatma Salah, who regularly advises on major projects in the energy and construction sectors.

The dispute resolution team at Riad & Riad is well known for appearing before all levels of the Egyptian courts in a wide range of contentious matters. Mohamed Riad is highly regarded for his expertise in IP disputes, while Eman Riad is sought after to advise on labour and employment issues and Fatma Salah handles construction, corporate and pharmaceutical disputes.