Mohamed Nabil Hazzaa

Mohamed heads Sharkawy & Sarhan’s M&A practice as well as its prolific power, utilities and infrastructure practice. He is regularly highly regarded in directories of law firms as he is selected by IFLR1000 and  Chambers & Partners as a leading/highly regarded lawyer.

He started his career as a junior associate with S&S and was seconded to the magic circle law firm Allen & Overy LLP in the Dubai office during 2014.

Throughout his career, he has acted on ground-breaking M&A transactions including advising on the sale of majority stakes in two major Egyptian banking units (BNP Paribas and NSGB) and purchase of majority stake in Barclays Bank Egypt, in addition to advising on potential purchase of Piraeus Bank Egypt by Standard Chartered Bank and the acquisition by Fairfax of a minority stake in CIB from Actis. More recently Mohamed has acted for Vodafone Group and Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC.He has advised several financial institutions and regulatory bodies in connection with a wide spectrum of issues in capital market including for key players such as Fairfax, Blakeney, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. In addition, Mohamed regularly advises EFG Hermes and its assets management, investment banking, private equity and stock-brokerage arms on a wide variety of capital market issues relating to assets management, custody, stockbrokerage and general regulatory and compliance aspects relating to financial services activities.

Mohamed also has in-depth focus on power & renewables and utilities advising clients on all regulatory aspects relating to power and utilities projects. In particular, he has advised CGN on acquisition of Malaysia Development Berhad involving the only three IPPs in the Egyptian market.

Mohamed has an outstanding footprint in the Egyptian renewable energy sector having advised all financial institutions involved in the second round of the feed-in tariff program as well as advising on several utility scale BOO projects and the first ever distributed generation projects to be financed by DFIs. More recently, Mohamed has been involved in all key transactions in Egypt in port related infrastructure including both PPP dry port transactions to date.

• Advising the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) on the financing to be granted to October Dry Port Company, a special purpose vehicle established for the development and construction of the 6th of October Dry Port project, the first Public Private Partnership (PPP) project in this sector, to be operated under a BOT scheme. The project was awarded to the consortium between El Sewedy Electric, SLP for Logistic Properties and Schenker Egypt.
• Advising the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the OPEC Fund for International Development (the OPEC Fund) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) on the financing of a 200 MW solar power plant on a Build, Own, Operate (BOO) scheme located in Kom Ombo Aswan and developed by Acwa Power.
• Advising International Finance Corporation (IFC) and other international financial institutions on the financing of a 500 MW solar power plant on a Build, Own, Operate (BOO) scheme located in Kom Ombo Aswan and developed by AMEA Power.
• Advising fifteen (15) banks and international financial institutions including International Finance Corporation (IFC), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Proparco, AIIB, CDC, AfDB and others on the USD1.8bn financing of 30 simultaneous solar projects under round II of the feed-in tariff program.

• Banking
• M&A
• PPP/PFI
• Private equity
• Project bonds
• Project development
• Project finance

• Banking
• Construction and materials
• Energy
• Financial services
• Industrials

• LLB, Cairo University, Faculty of Law, English Section, and qualified in 2009