Hani Nassef

As a prominent corporate and M&A lawyer with over 16 years of experience in Egypt and across the MENA region, Hani brings a wealth of top-tier transactional knowledge and excellent corporate client relationships. He advises both strategic and financial investors on a wide range of regional and international mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, equity capital markets transactions and corporate reorganizations. Hani also has on-the-ground experience acting on inbound and outbound M&A and other corporate transactions across the MENA region, and has acted for a number of clients on transactions that took place in Sub-Saharan Africa. Hani received his law degree from Cairo University's Faculty of Law in 2004. In addition, he earned hismaster's degree in law from Northwestern University's School of Law in 2008. He was admitted to the Egyptian Bar Association in 2004.

• Advised EFG Hermes and its subsidiary valU for Financial Services in connection with their proposed joint venture arrangements with Fawaz Abdulaziz Al Hokair in Saudi Arabia to establish a consumer finance business that will be led by valU.
• Advised a consortium of financial investors led by Amethis Fund II S.C.A., SICAR (Amethis) and including SPE AIF I, LP (SPE Capital) and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development for the acquisition of a 95% stake of GlobalCorp for Financial Services and its group of companies in Egypt from each of SANAD Fund for MSME – Equity Sub-Fund and Ezdehar Egypt Mid-Cap Fund Coöperatief U.A. and the founder.
• Advised a consortium of the largest banks in Egypt, including Banque Misr, National Bank of Egypt and Banque Du Caire as lead investors in connection with their investment "Nclude" Fintech Innovation Fund, a newly established fintech and financial inclusion fund in the ADGM (Abu Dhabi Global Market), UAE which will be managed by Global Ventures.
• Advised Emirates NBD on the divestment of their non-banking financial services business in Egypt.

• Hedge funds
• Investment funds
• M&A
• Private equity
• Private equity funds
• Real estate funds
• Equity Capital Markets.

• Construction and materials
• Consumer goods and services
• Energy
• Financial services
• Food and beverage
• Government and public policy
• Healthcare
• Industrials
• Insurance
• Investment management
• Media
• Mining
• Natural resources
• Oil and gas
• Pharma and life sciences
• Real estate
• Shipping
• Social infrastructure
• Tech and telecoms
• Tourism
• Transport
• Utilities

• Egyptian Bar Association - 2004. 

• Northwestern University School of Law (LLM) (2008)
• Cairo University (LLB) (2004)