Dania El Samad > Zulficar & Partners Law Firm > Cairo, Egypt > Lawyer Profile

Zulficar & Partners Law Firm
NILE CITY BUILDING, SOUTH TOWER, 8TH FLOOR
2005 A CORNICH EL NIL
RAMLET BEAULAC, CAIRO 11221
Egypt

Work Department

Banking& Finance

Position

Partner

Career

Mrs. El Samad has over 13 years of experience in Egypt, and is recognized as an expert on banking and finance transactions, including drafting and negotiating finance documents, loan agreements and security documents, such as pledges, mortgages and corporate guarantees. She also assisted in major project finance and syndicated lending transactions, on behalf of leading real estate developing companies, banking and  financial institutions and other local and international clients  and has been recently acted on behalf of project companies in the renewable energy projects under the FiT program and related project financing. In addition, Mrs. El Samad has provided several legal opinions on Cross-Border banking activities, Repo and Derivatives transactions under GMRA and ISDA Agreements, Global Depository Receipts and Global Depositary Notes for international financial institutions and banks.

Languages

English, French and Arabic.

Education

Dania El Samad obtained her License en Droit (LL.B in Law) in 1996 and her Maîtrise en Droit in 1997 from the Faculty of Law, Lebanese University. Her working languages are Arabic, English and French. Ms. El Samad obtained her Masters II in International and European Business Law from IDAI, Paris 1 Sorbonne in 2014.

Lawyer Rankings

Egypt > Banking and finance

Zulficar & Partners Law Firm handles a steady stream of high-value banking, project and Islamic finance transactions, as well as advising lenders and borrowers on sophisticated syndicated loans, club deals and debt restructuring agreements. The team is led by the founding partner pair of Mona Zulficar, who is a project finance specialist, and Ashraf Ihab, who has a robust track record in a diverse range of complex transactions spanning credit facilities and debt restructuring agreements. Dania El Samad is also developing a strong project finance practice, regularly acting for a number of top lenders, borrowers, and governmental and corporate entities.