Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Mohamed Taha is a UK and U.S. qualified, and Egyptian law trained, capital markets lawyer and a native Arabic speaker - experience which is almost second to none in the region. He covers both U.S., European and UAE securities laws and is experienced in complex debt and equity offerings. He is able to provide regional cultural nuance to multifaceted capital markets transactions, providing international clients with strong reassurance on MENA deals that not only is the legal advice technically correct, but it can also be applied to, and is compliant with, the local regulatory frameworks.

Mohamed is a Partner in our Abu Dhabi office but often works as a lead or co-lead partner on complex cross-border transactions due to his education and training, qualifications and experience across the U.S., Europe and the Middle East.

He has strong working relationships with the SCA and its counterparts in the U.S., the SEC, and UK, the FCA, which helps us when a transaction raises challenging or novel issues, requiring lengthy discussions with the regulators as to the interpretation of their rulesMohamed is also an experienced M&A lawyer and therefore can provide clients with end-to-end advice on complex corporate finance transactions with combined underlying M&A and ECM or DCM elements.

Mohamed is also a co-founder of 10BE5. After seeing a gap in the market to address the way that capital markets lawyers handled the financial aspects of their disclosure work, the 10BE5 team looked at ways of automating the drafting of financial results analysis, a key component of capital markets disclosure documents, which is currently done manually by capital markets lawyers and/or in-house disclosure teams. The N2N product’s goals are to reduce mistakes, standardize work products, free up capacity, and achieve time and cost savings. The technology is used by several Magic Circle and top 10 Am Law firms.

Arabic English

England, Wales and New York

Georgetown University Law Center - Master in Law 2014

Cairo University, Faculty of Law - Diploma in Law 2012

Cairo University, Faculty of Law - B.A. Hons (Law) University of Dundee Ph.D. 2022