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Zulficar & Partners

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Egypt

Financial and corporate

Banking and capital markets

Mergers and acquisitions

Project finance

Zulficar & Partners

According to one client: "Mona Zulficar is the market's leading individual for finance law advice, if she says something the Egyptian banks will listen - she is better since she set up her own firm, much more responsive. Her reputation in the market is big.... [more]

Leading lawyers
Ingy Badawy
Ashraf Ihab
Mona Zulficar


Nile City Building, South Tower, 8th Floor
2005 A Corniche El Nil, Ramlet Beaulac
Cairo, Egypt

Tel: +20 2 2461 2161/2/3/4
Fax: +20 2 2461 2165
Web: www.zulficarpartners.com
Email: mail@zulficarpartners.com

Chairperson of Executive Committee:
Mona Zulficar
Managing Partner:
Dr. Firas El Samad

Partners:
Mona Zulficar, Ashraf Ihab, Ingy Badawy, Mohamed S. Abdel Wahab, Firas El Samad, Anwar Zeidan, Mahmoud Shaltout

Number of partners: 7
Number of other fee earners: approx 23

Firm profile:

Zulficar & Partners is an established practice with a solid and well recognized track record experience in diverse legal fields across the business and commercial spectrums. The Firm, drawing upon the unparalleled expertise of its members, brings to the legal market a blend of exceptional individual and collective skills as well as more than 35 years of legal experience.
The Firm prides itself as having star quality partners and associates recognized for making precedents and introducing innovative products, structures and solutions to the Egyptian market through their creative and pro-active problem solving approach.

Areas of practice:

Banking, Credit and Corporate Finance, Investment Banking and Capital Market Transactions, International Commercial and Investment Arbitration, Project Finance and Public-Private Partnerships, Mergers & Acquisitions, Litigation, Amicable Dispute Resolution, Energy, Oil and Gas, Telecommunication and IT, Antitrust and Competition Law, International Contracts and Business Transactions, Corporate Law, including incorporation procedures, Legislative, Tax and Labor Law, including ESOPs, and Intellectual Property, including Trademark and Patent Registration.

Representative clients:
Alitalia Air Lines, Amoun Holding Company, Apache Corporation (Egypt), Arab Company for Production and Distribution, Banque Audi, Banque Misr, Blom Bank, British American Tobacco, Cemex, Commercial International Bank, Citadel Capital, Citibank, N.A., Credit Agricole, E-Methanex, General Cable, General Motors Company (GMC), General Motors Egypt (GME), Gravena, Guardian Industries, HSBC, Kraft International, Mashreq Bank, Egyptian Company for Mobile Services (MobiNil), National Bank of Egypt, National Societe Generale Bank, Orascom Telecom, Orascom Construction Industries, Paradise Capital, Sixth of October for Development and Investment Company (SODIC), Suez Cement Group (Italcimenti), Vimpelcom, Tanjong, Taqa Arabia, The Bank of New York Mellon.

Recent Awards
• Awarded "Best M&A Practice Egypt 2010, World Finance Legal Awards."
• Mona Zulficar, Partner, awarded 'Best Individual Lawyer Egypt 2010', "World Finance Legal Awards."
• Dr. Mohamed S. Abdel Wahab, Partner, has been selected to appear in the 7th edition of the "World's Leading Project Finance Lawyers."
• Ranked as Tier (1) Law Firm in Egypt by various International directories, particularly in Corporate, M& A, Project Finance and Banking.