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Zulficar & Partners Law Firm Offices

NILE CITY BUILDING, SOUTH TOWER, 8TH FLOOR
2005 A CORNICH EL NIL
RAMLET BEAULAC, CAIRO 11221
Egypt
Zulficar & Partners Law Firm > The Legal 500 Rankings
Egypt > Banking and finance Tier 1
Zulficar & Partners Law Firm is well-equipped to handle banking and non-banking finance transactions, including complex syndications, club and multilateral loan agreements, credit facility agreements, project finance and green finance initiatives. The team is also renowned for its track record in debt instruments transactions, which spans green bonds, financial sukuk and securitisation. The team is co-led by founding partner Mona ZulficarPractice head(s):
Mona Zulficar; Ashraf Ihab
Other key lawyers:
Dania El Samad; Tamima Yehia
Key clients
Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait – Egypt
Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait K.S.C.P
Al Ahly Pharos
Arab African International Bank
Arab Banking Corporation
African Export-Import Bank
Bank of America
Banque Misr
Bank of Alexandria
Bank of Palestine
Audi Bank
Beltone| Financial
Cairo Investment for Real Estate Development
Capital Med
Central Bank of Egypt
Citib|ank
Commercial International Bank
Credit Agricole Egypt
EFG Hermes
Egyptian Electricity Holding Company (EEHC)
Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (EETC)
Egyptian Gulf Bank S.A.E
Egyptian Mud Engineering & Chemicals Co.
Egyptian |Methanex| Methanol Company, SAE
FAB
Fawry
Ghabbour Auto
GB Capital
HSBC
International Finance Corporation
MUFG Securities EMEA plc.
National Bank of Egypt
National Bank of Kuwait
National Automotive Company
Powertek| (Formerly |Tanjong|)
Qalaa Holding
SCATEC| Egypt
Shelf Drilling
Sky Finance
Societe Generale Bank
Standard Bank of South Africa
Suez Canal Bank
The Bank of New York Mellon
The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi
The European Bank for Reconstruction & Development
The United Bank
Work highlights
- Advised Arab African International Bank on the issuance of a sustainable development bonds program amounting to $500m.
- Advised Qalaa Holdings (QH) on a complex settlement and restructuring of debts owed to local and international banks and financial institutions under a syndicated loan agreement, through a variety of mechanisms.
- Advised the International Lenders of the National Bank of Egypt on a Term Loan Facility Agreement of up to $1bn for a tenor of one year with two annual extension options.
Egypt > Commercial, corporate and M&A Tier 1
Zulficar & Partners Law Firm’ team has well-rounded experience in domestic and cross-border corporate transactions, and operates across the banking, healthcare, renewable, TMT, and real estate sectors. The practice is split up into two divisions: Ingy Badawy heads the corporate and M&A group, and offers extensive experience in acquisitions, joint ventures and related contracts while Anwar Zeidan leads the capital markets and procedural group division. Another key practitioner is founding partner Mona ZulficarPractice head(s):
Ingy Badawy; Anwar Zeidan
Other key lawyers:
Egypt > Dispute resolution: arbitration Tier 1
Zulficar & Partners Law Firm has an excellent track record in handling Egyptian and international arbitral proceedings, with the team handling cases heard before CRCICA, DIAC, ICC, LCIA and SIAC panels. The practice’s broad expertise spans the construction, energy, financial services, infrastructure, international trade and TMT sectors. Mohamed Abdel WahabPractice head(s):
Mohamed Abdel Wahab
Other key lawyers:
Key clients
Amer Group
Apache
APM Terminals (Suez Canal Container Terminal)
Bawabet Al Kuwait Holding Co.
Cheiron Zaafarana petroleum company limited
Orascom Construction Industries (OCI)
E-Methanex
HZPC
Orange
Pico Petroleum
Sixth October development and investment company s.a.e. (Sodic)
Taqa
Total S.A
Work highlights
- Represented a leading engineering company in a $70m CRCICA dispute against a cement company in relation to a maintenance, operation and supply agreement (services agreement). The contract is governed by Egyptian law.
- Represented the client in a CRCICA arbitration proceeding commenced by the former shareholder of Nile Badrawi Hospital S.A.E. against the Commercial International Bank S.A.E. and the client in relation to an escrow agreement.
Egypt > Dispute resolution: litigation Tier 1
Zulficar & Partners Law Firm is a popular choice for financial institutions, international businesses and government ministries. The team represents clients in domestic and multi-jurisdictional litigation and is highly regarded for its expertise on tax, privatisation, employment, commercial contracts and banking disputes. Practice head Mahmoud Shaltout spearheads complex litigation disputes across the legal spectrum, with experience prosecuting before the Egyptian ordinary, economic and administrative courts. Eslam El Dessouki specialises in individual and collective labour disputes, while Waleed Salah is a key contact for handling complex tax litigation.Practice head(s):
Mahmoud Shaltout
Key clients
Arab Swiss Engineering Co (ASEC)
Adeptio AD Investment SPC
Al-Baraka for Trade and Investments SPC
Alexandria Portland Cement Co. (APCC)
AMER Group
Apache
Argon Kimya Sanayi
Automobile and Touring Club of Egypt
Beni Suef Cement Co. (BSCC)
Blue Gulf Touristic Investment
Cemex
Cleopatra Hospital
Cleopatra Group
Coca Cola HBC (Egypt)
Damietta Alliance
E-Methanex
Energizer
Ferlink SAL
First for Real Estate and Touristic Development
Givaudan International SA
Guardian
Heirs of Yessa Andrawas
Helwan Cement Co. (HCC)
IBM Egypt
Marakez
Marasina For Touristic Development
National Bank of Egypt
ORANGE
Phillip Morris
Pirelli /Prometeon
Powertek/ Edra Power Holdings SDN BHD (Formerly Tanjong)
Qalaa Holdings
Ray|star Corporation
Richemont International SA
Roots Egypt for Equipment (Unimar Egypt)
Saudi Ministry of Commerce
Sodic
Suez Cement Company SAE
Taqa Arabia
Taqa Marketing
Taqa Gas
The Johor State Government
Torrecid
Tourah Portland Cement Co. (TPCC)
Work highlights
- Represented a client regarding a claim for damages before the Arab Investment Court against the Saudi Ministry of Commerce, invoking the Unified Agreement for the Investment of Arab Capital in Arab Countries.
- Acted on a dispute involving annulment proceedings filed by Misr Beni Suef Cement Company against an arbitral award secured earlier by the Firm in favour of ASEC, and related proceedings for enforcement of the arbitral award issued The Firm secured a favourable settlement for ASEC.
- Acted on a court case before Administrative Courts (State Council) regarding the privatization of Beni Suef Cement Company. The claimants sought a judgment for invalidity of the shares purchase agreement associated with the company’s privatization The Firm secured a ruling by the Supreme Administrative Court, in favour of BSCC, dismissing the claimants’ case.
Zulficar & Partners Law Firm > Firm Profile
Zulficar & Partners is a premier international arbitration and corporate law firm based in the heart of Cairo, Egypt, providing a comprehensive range of legal services, to a diverse array of clients, both in Egypt and internationally.
Since its establishment in 2009, the firm has been providing a comprehensive range of state-of-the-art legal services to a diverse portfolio of national and international commercial, investment, industrial and financial clients, as well as state and state-owned entities. Zulficar & Partners has established itself as a legal market leader regionally and a a precedent maker across all sectors and disciplines, with a clear track record of success, being well known for its innovative, strategic and result- oriented.
Zulficar & Partners leads the market with five- star quality groups of 16 partners and more than 65 senior associates, associates and counsels. The firm was founded by seven founding partners, where Ms Mona Zulficar serves as the chair of the executive committee.
The firm is regularly ranked as a first-tier dispute resolution and arbitration practice and regularly features as a leading dispute resolutions and and arbitration firm in leading directories. It is the only Egyptian firm that featured for no less than nine consecutive years in the GAR100 guide to the world’s top arbitration firms since 2015.
In 2023, Zulficar & Partners was top- ranked by Chambers Global Guide 2023, in banking and finance, capital markets, corporate/ M&A, dispute resolution: arbitration and litigation (Egypt), naming Prof Dr Mohamed Abdel Wahab, founding partner and head of the international arbitration, construction and oil and gas groups, as “one of the best- known arbitration lawyers in Egypt” and Mr Mahmoud Shaltout, founding partner and head of the litigation group as “Smart, good on his feet and very engaged” and naming Ms Mona Zulficar “The guru of banking law” and Mr Anwar Zeidan, founding partner and head of the capital market and procedures groups , as “One of the best in capital markets” and Mariam El Masry, partner at the M&A group as “A very Strong Lawyer“.
The IFLR1000 ranks Zulficar & Partners as TIER 1 in banking, M&A, project finance and capital markets, debt and equity, and acknowledged Ms Mona Zulficar, Ashraf Ihab, Dr Ingy Badawy and Anwar Zeidan as Highly Regarded Lawyers, Dr Firas El Samad, founding and managing partner and head of competition and technology groups, as a Notable Practitioner, and partners, Mariam El Masry and Rana Al Nahal as Rising Stars.
Lawyer Profiles
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Prof Dr Mohamed Abdel Wahab | Professor of International Arbitration, Private International Law and English Contract Law, Cairo… | View Profile |
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Youssef Al Saman | Partner – Dispute Resolution and Projects | View Profile |
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Dr Ingy Badawy | Founding Partner and Head of Mergers and Acquisitions Group | View Profile |
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Eslam El Dessouki | Partner- Litigation & Intellectual Property | View Profile |
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Mariam El Masry | Partner | View Profile |
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Dr Firas El Samad | Founding and Managing Partner Head of Competition and Technology Groups | View Profile |
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Dania El Samad | Partner | View Profile |
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Khaled Hammad | Partner in the Firm’s Procedures and Capital Market Department. | View Profile |
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Karim Ramsis | Partner | View Profile |
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Mahmoud Shaltout | Founding Partner & Head of Litigation Group | View Profile |
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Anwar Zeidan | Founding Partner and Head of Capital Markets Group | View Profile |
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Mona Zulficar | Chairperson EFG Hermes Holding, SAE (Non-executive) (2008 – to date) Chairperson, Egyptian… | View Profile |
Spotlights
EGYPT
Zulficar & Partners is a premier arbitration and corporate law firm based in the heart of Cairo, Egypt, providing a comprehensive range of legal services, to a diverse array of clients, both in Egypt and internationally.
Since its establishment in 2009, the firm has been providing a comprehensive and bespoke range of state-of-the-art legal services to a diverse portfolio of national and international commercial, investment, industrial and financial clients, as well as state and state-owned entities.
Zulficar& Partners Firm has established itself as a legal market leader regionally and a precedent-maker across all sectors and disciplines, with a clear track record of success; being well known for its innovative, strategic, and result-oriented techniques and services.
The Firm leads the market with five-star quality groups of 16 partners and more than 65 senior associates, associates, and counsels, specializing in Arbitration, Banking and Finance, Capital Markets, Construction, Corporate/ M&As, Energy, and Litigation.
Zulficar& Partners was founded by seven Founding Partners. Ms. Mona Zulficar serves as the Chair of the Executive Committee. She is an attorney for more than 40 years, with a specialization in major restructuring projects finance, and M&A transactions, and a commitment to community activism and advocacy for human rights and women’s rights in Egypt and internationally since 1985. Ms. Zulficar has received many local, regional, and international awards, in addition to being listed by Forbes Middle East as one of the 50 most powerful businesswomen in the region for the last four consecutive years.
The Firm is well known for its award-winning and world-class Arbitration Group, founded and headed by Prof. Dr. Mohamed Abdel Wahab, the Arbitration Group is available and able to conduct international arbitral proceedings in diverse jurisdictions, under various laws, and in different languages to the highest standards of efficiency and professionalism, and is regularly instructed to represent corporations, investors and governmental entities from across the globe in arbitral proceedings under major institutional rules including the AAA, ADCCAC, CRCICA, DIAC, DIFC-LCIA, ICC, ICSID, JCAA, LCIA, LMAA, SCC, and SIAC, as well as ad-hoc proceedings governed by the UNCITRAL rules and/or diverse national laws.
Zulficar and Partner’s solid Arbitration Group is founded on a combination of knowledge, expertise, creativity, and strategic dispute management. We pride ourselves as market leaders in the world of arbitration, where we regularly prosecute cases under major institutional rules and in ad-hoc proceedings.
Zulficar and Partner’s Banking& Finance Group is founded on the achievements track records and expertise of its members. Headed by Founding Partner, Mr. Ashraf Ihab, the Banking& Finance
Group distinguishes itself by its strict observance of a set of uncompromising values and principles that mark its identity and professional culture. The Group provides a comprehensive range of legal services for a wide variety of renowned international and regional banks, financial institutions, corporate and governmental clients as well as other entities.
The Firm’s Litigation Group has extensive experience with the procedural and substantive laws in Egypt. Headed by Founding Partner Mr. Mahmoud Shaltout, our Litigation group has the expertise and required skills to represent local and international clients in all complex domestic claims, multi-jurisdictional litigation, IP & competition law practice. The Group also has an extensive well known Taxation litigation practice, further to the extensive experience handling privatization disputes.
Zulficar and Partner’s Corporate/ M&A Group is handled by two main groups within the Firm: The Mergers and Acquisition Group headed by Founding Partner Dr. Ingy Badawy and the Capital Markets and Procedural Group, headed by Founding Partner Mr. Anwar Zeidan. Founding and Managing Partner Dr. Firas El Samad is a prominent and active member of the Merger& Acquisitions Group, in addition to being the Head of the Competition Law and IT group. Ms. Mona Zulficar also provides the group with valuable support when required.
The Firm’s M&A Group is recognized and signaled for establishing precedents and introducing innovative products, structures, and solutions to the Egyptian market through its creative and proactive problem-solving approaches. The Group has represented and continues to represent clients in major domestic as well as cross-border transactions, restructuring and acquisition, joint ventures, IPOs, and private equality funding transactions in various sectors, including healthcare, banking and finance, education, electronics, E- Payment Solutions, renewable energy, oil and gas, real estate, consumer goods, and other diverse industrial sectors.
Zulficar& Partner’s Capital Markets Group is the market leader in Egypt, with extensive and significant hands-on experience in all Capital Market transactions. Headed by Founding Partner Mr. Anwar Zeidan, the Group is not only known for its in-depth- knowledge of the regulatory framework but is also proactively helping to shape regulations through its constant interaction with the regulators. Recently the Group assisted in the preparation of the first SPAC regulations. The group has been involved in most of the landmark successful tender offers and IPOs executed in Egypt during the last ten years.
The Firm is regularly ranked as a first-tier dispute resolution and arbitration practice and regularly features as a leading dispute resolution and arbitration firm in leading directories. Partners and lawyers of the Arbitration Group are regularly published on intricate and hot topics of dispute resolution and are regularly invited to speak at international dispute resolution fora and events. The Firm is the only
Egyptian Firm that featured for no less than nine consecutive years in the GAR 100 guide to the world’s top arbitration firms since 2015.
The IFLR1000 ranks the Firm as Tier 1 in Banking, M&A, Project Finance and Capital Markets; Debt& Equity, and acknowledged Mona Zulficar, Ashraf Ihab, Dr. Ingy Badawy, and Anwar Zeidan as Highly Regarded Lawyers, Dr. Firas El Samad as a Notable Practitioner,
Mariam El Masry and Rana Al Nahal as Rising Stars.
In 2023, the Firm was top-ranked by Chambers Global Guide 2023, in Banking& Finance Capital Markets, Corporate/ M&A, Dispute Resolution: Arbitration, and Dispute Resolution: Litigation (Egypt), naming Prof. Dr. Mohamed Abdel Wahab as “One of the best- known arbitration lawyers in Egypt”, and Mahmoud Shaltout as “Smart, good on his feet and very engaged.”, and naming Ms. Mona Zulficar “The guru of banking law”, and Mr. Anwar Zeidan as “ One of the best in capital markets”, and Mariam El Masry as “A very strong lawyer”.
In 2022, the Firm won Merger Control Law Firm of the Year in Egypt by the global law annual awards for the work done by Dr. Firas El Samad in this area and the WWL said “Mohamed Abdel Wahab is an all-time great of construction arbitration”.
Furthermore, the Legal 500 ranked the Firm as Top Tier in Banking and Finance, Commercial Corporate and M&A, and Dispute Resolution Arbitration and Litigation, naming Mona Zulficar, Ashraf Ihab, Anwar Zeidan, Dr. Ingy Badawy, Prof. Dr. Mohamed S. Abdel Wahab, and Mahmoud Shaltout as Leading Individuals. Partner Youssef AL Saman was mentioned as a Next- generation partner in Dispute Resolution Arbitration. Dr. Ingy Badawy was also named in the IFLR100 Women Leaders of 2022 for her continuous achievements.
In 2021, Chambers & Partners ranked the Firm as Band 1 in Dispute Resolution: Arbitration and Litigation and in Banking and Finance, naming Mona Zulficar as “One of the best banking and finance lawyers in the country” Prof. Dr. Abdel Wahab “An absolute star in arbitration”, and Mahmoud Shaltout as Band 1 in Dispute Resolution: Litigation, stating that he is “Regarded by interviewees as an ‘Exceptional Lawyer’” Band 1 in Capital Markets naming Anwar Zeidan “A leading figure in Egyptian capital markets”, and Ashraf Ihab is noted for “His in-depth knowledge of bond issuances and securitizations”.