Dania El Samad > Zulficar & Partners Law Firm > Cairo, Egypt > Lawyer Profile
Zulficar & Partners Law Firm Offices
NILE CITY BUILDING, SOUTH TOWER, 8TH FLOOR
2005 A CORNICH EL NIL
RAMLET BEAULAC, CAIRO 11221
Egypt
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Dania El Samad
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
(Next Generation Partners)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 Zulficar
, a leading authority on restructurings and project finance, and Ashraf Ihab, who brings extensive experience in complex financing transactions spanning syndications and credit facilities. Other key contracts include Dania El Samad, who focuses on banking and project finance with a frequent cross-border focus, and Tamima Yahia, who joined the team in July 2024 and enhances the team’s regulatory services.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution: arbitration
- Dispute resolution: litigation