The corporate and commercial team at Riad & Riad is engaged by international businesses, investment banks, private equity providers and Egyptian state entities. The team is particularly adept at advising clients on M&A transactions, the establishment of legal entities, joint ventures, corporate governances and commercial contracts. Dr Fatma Salah and Mohamed Riad bring extensive experience handling cross-border corporate transactions across a variety of sectors. Additionally, Eman Riad is a key practitioner for M&A, joint ventures and commercial contracts.
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Key clients

  • Kronospan
  • Ezdihar Medical
  • SaintGull Information andTechnology Co. Ltd.
  • Snibe
  • AMT Law Firm
  • HIKOKI Power Tools Asia
  • Cotecna Trade Support Company
  • Gro-Pro Corporation
  • GSK
  • Kellogg Toloram

Work highlights

Assisting Kronospan, a leading Austrian-founded, international company that manufactures and distributes wood-based panels in acquiring a controlling majority of the share capital of one of the leading companies in the field of wood manufacturing in Egypt.
Advising the Chinese giant, CSCEC China State Construction Engineering Corporations Ltd (CSCEC) and providing a comprehensive report on corporate and compliance laws and regulations in Egypt including Investment Law, Corporate, Employment, Taxation, Environment, Procurement Laws, related to their project expansions in Egypt.
Assisting SPIC Huanghe Hydropower Development Co. in advising its client China Power Investment Holding Ltd, to acquire shares in Abydos Solar Power Company in Egypt. Abydos Company undertakes a project consists of the development, financing, construction, operation and maintenance of a 500MW solar PV power plant in Aswan Governate, Egypt, under the terms of a 25-year Power Purchase Agreement with the Egypt Electricity Transmission Company, fully guaranteed by Egypt’s Ministry of Finance.

Lawyers

Practice head

Fatma Salah; Eman Riad; Mohamed Riad