Dreny & Partners

Motaz El Dreny, Founder and Managing Partner, m.eldreny@dreny.partners

Imane Raouf, Partner, Head of Capital Markets and Financial Services Department, i.raouf@dreny.partners

Dreny & Partners was established in 2018, with a mission to provide a full-fledged first-rate legal service for diversified clients; striving to become a leading law firm in the MENA region by reaching practical and innovative legal solutions, delivering distinctive quality services to a wide variety of international and local clients, as well as government institutions, ensuring the success of their business from a legal standpoint.

Dreny & Partners prides itself as being extensively knowledgeable and dedicated to achieving the best possible outcome for clients’ needs.
Our services range from general corporate, commercial and practice capital market, to complex offerings, all the way to challenging structured finance.

The Firm’s team has a broad experience in various businesses in relation to corporate and capital market, including but not limited to public offerings, private placements, M&As, equity and debt capital market, as well as debt restructuring.

• The leading African connectivity, digital & financial services company Vodacom in Egypt’s largest ever acquisition; where Vodacom acquired 55% stake in Vodafone Egypt valued at Euro 2.5 billion.
• The sellers on the sale of Fancy Foods SAE to Edita Food Industries SAE, with the transaction being valued at EGP 380 million.
• Arab Company for Projects and Urban Development (“ACPUD”) (An affiliate of Talaat Moustafa Group Holding) on the first ever securitization backed by portfolio of club membership fees with a value of EGP 410.8 million.
• New Urban Communities Authority on its EGP 20 billion bond issuance.
• Represented a syndicate of 22 lenders for the arranging of Egypt’s largest locally long-term syndicated loan underwritten EGP 6 billion.
• Bedaya Mortgage Finance 2nd securitization transaction amounting to 958 million from a multi-issuance program of 3 billion.
• Al Oula Mortgage Finance Company 1st securitization transaction amounting to 998.5 million from a multi-issuance program of 3 billion.
• Madinat Nasr for Housing & Development 2nd securitization transaction amounting to 805.5 million from a multi-issuance program of 3 billion.
• Aman Financial Services 1st securitization transaction amounting to 403.4 million from a multi-issuance program of 5 billion.
• ValU’s issuance of USD 34.5 million from a multi-issuance program amounting of USD 162.1 million.
• Arab African International Bank in granting Sky Investments a MTL amounting to EGP 1.3 billion.
• The lenders in a syndicated finance deal of EGP 12.3 billion, between 11 banks in Egypt and borrower; Gharably Integrated Engineering Company.
• Premium International for Credit Services (Premium Card) on its program of multiple securitization issuances worth EGP 2 billion.
• Raya Holding Company’s securitized bond issuance with a value of EGP 562 million.
• Raya Holding Company on its securitization transaction with value of EGP 497.5 million.
• Tanmeya “EGY Lease’s 1st securitization transaction amounting to EGP 749.8 million.
• Global Corp Financial Service’s 4th securitization transaction for their financial leasing portfolio amounting to EGP 2.54 billion.

• Capital markets: Debt
• Banking
• Asset finance
• Capital markets: Equity
• Financial restructuring
• Financial services regulatory
• Investment funds
• M&A
• Private equity
• Project finance
• Real estate finance
• Real estate funds
• Restructuring and insolvency
• Securitisation
• Structured finance/securitisation
• Competition
• Covered bonds
• Capital markets: High yield
• Capital markets: Derivatives
• Islamic finance
• PPP/PFI
• Private equity funds
• Project bonds
• Project development
• Trade finance
• Hedge funds