Muhammad Nassef

Muhammad Nassef is a Partner at Meysan and leads our corporate practice in Cairo. He has extensive experience advising and assisting clients across a broad range of corporate transactions, including share and asset acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, carve‑outs, and corporate structuring and reorganization.

Muhammad also advises clients on complex commercial transactions and matters, such as agency, distributorship, licensing, and manufacturing arrangements.

Additionally, he spent over a year practicing with a prominent firm in Dubai, focusing on the structuring and reorganization of family businesses.

• Represented Al Mansour Automotive in establishing their new automotive manufacturing facility in Egypt.
  
  
• Represented Beltone Holding in connection with its acquisition of the shares in SODIC for Securitization.
  
  
• Represented Beltone Holding in connection with its joint venture with CRIF to launch Egypt’s second credit rating agency.
  
  
• Represented a leading automotive company in connection with its acquisition of an automotive feeding industrial company.
  
  
• Represented Beltone Holding in connection with its acquisition of the shares in Cash for Microfinance S.A.E.
  
  
• Represented Saint Gobain in connection with its acquisition of IDP for Chemicals.
  
  
• Represented Development Partners International in connection with its minority investment, and subsequent exit, from B.TECH, a leading Egyptian home appliances company.
  
  
• Represented the Commercial International Bank (CIB) on the acquisition of Citibank’s Egyptian consumer business.
  
  
• Represented an international investment fund on the acquisition of, and subsequent sale of, 55% in an Egyptian industrial company.
  
  
• Represented Cargill as local counsel in connection with launching a joint venture with Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) to provide soybean meal and oil to the Egyptian market, including operation of a soy crush facility in Alexandria.
  
  
• Represented AlMansour Automotive in connection with joint ventures related to Peugeot and MG automotive distribution businesses.
  
  
• Represented Societe Nationale D’investissement in connection with its divestment of its Egyptian non‑alcoholic beverage business to The Coca‑Cola Company.
  
  
• Represented Pfizer in connection with the carve‑out of certain assets in Egypt.

• Asset finance
• Banking
• Capital markets: debt
• Capital markets: derivatives
• Capital markets: equity
• Capital markets: high yield
• Competition
• Financial restructuring
• Financial services regulatory
• M&A
• PPP/PFI
• Private equity
• Private equity funds
• Project development
• Project finance
• Real estate finance
• Restructuring and insolvency
• Other

• Agriculture
• Aviation
• Banking
• Construction and materials
• Consumer goods and services
• Energy
• Financial services
• Food and beverage
• Healthcare
• Industrials
• Insurance
• Investment management
• Media
• Natural resources
• Oil and gas
• Pharmaceutical and life sciences
• Real estate
• Social infrastructure
• Technology and telecommunications
• Tourism
• Transport
• Other

• LL.B., Cairo University, Faculty of Law
• Diploma in International Commercial Law, Cairo University, Faculty of Law
• Master of Laws, University of Virginia School of Law