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Donia El-Mazghouny

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Work Department

Projects and Financing

Position

Managing Partner

Career

Donia is the founder and managing partner of Mazghouny & Co. Prior to launching the practice, Donia was a partner with a tier 1 law firm in Cairo, where she headed the Energy & Projects team. She specialises in energy law, with a focus on energy and power agreements, and regularly advises clients on the development, financing and acquisition of energy and infrastructure projects in Egypt. She further advises on transactional matters, corporate and commercial agreements, joint ventures, corporate structuring, and labour matters notably in the energy and power, manufacturing and services fields. She has recently advised on the first green hydrogen and green ammonia projects being developed in Egypt, and advised sponsors on the issuance of the first green project bonds in Egypt worth USD 334.5 million.

Donia is identified as an “Energy Expert” by Who’s Who Legal and recommended by Legal500 for Energy and Projects & Infrastructure, and has won Lexology Client Choice award 2021 for Energy & Natural Resources. She is ranked as a “Leading Individual” and is “highly regarded for the financing and development of wind and solar power projects”, and a practitioner who “excels at integrating her deep knowledge of the sector into clear and practical advice for international investors”. She is also noted as “one of the best specialist partners in the energy sector”, and as a “talented partner”, who is “responsive and accurate” and “highly knowledgeable” in the field. She has been recently recognised as a “Notable Practitioner” by Chambers and Partners for her Projects & Energy work, with market sources commenting that “she is the face of the renewable energy business in Egypt”, adding that “she is a brilliant lawyer with a commercial mindset, who always goes above and beyond what is expected to support her clients”.

Languages

Arabic, English, French, and Italian

Memberships

Donia is the Power Law Committee Liaison Officer – Arab Regional Forum of the International Bar Association (IBA), and a member of the Association of International Energy Negotiators (AIEN).

Education

King’s College London (UK), Master of Laws – LLM, International Financial Law, 2011
Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne (France), Master, International and European Business Law, 2008
Cairo University (Egypt), Bachelor of Laws – LLB