Tamer El Hennawy

Tamer El Hennawy is the Co-Head of the Corporate and M&A and Capital Markets groups. Tamer usually represents Egyptian leading corporations, and he has been working on most of the public offerings that occurred in the country in the past years.

In particular, Tamer has helped execute high-value acquisitions. Restructurings and divestitures in Egypt for companies in natural resources, manufacturing, construction, real estate, pharmaceutical and tourism industries. Tamer also worked on the sale of operating fields that were carried out by the Egyptian Petroleum Corporation.

• Hassan Allam Holding in their acquisition of 60% of the shares of Power Generation Engineering and Services Company S.A.E being the largest consultancy firm in the region the field of power generation. The instructions included providing legal advices conducting legal due diligence and review the transaction documentation. The transaction value: EGP 420 million (closed in March 2018).
• SEB Internationale SAS and Groupe SEB Egypt for Household Appliances in connection with their acquisition of 51% of Egyptian French Company for Households being a market leader in the field of cooking equipment. The acquisition is followed by a merger, which would in effect cause SEB Internationale SAS and Groupe SEB Egypt for Household Appliances ownership to reach 55%.
• Transaction cash value is approximately EGP 400,000,000 yet the overall value including the merged entity values would be a multiple of that figure. The instructions included providing legal advices conducting legal due diligence and review the transaction documentation (signed in December 2017).
• Obour Land for Food Industries, as sole local councils, in its initial public offering for a total valuation of EGP 774 million.
• Egyptian investment bank CI Capital on the listing of 246.9 million ordinary shares on the Egyptian Stock Exchange, representing 43.6% of its capital. Transaction value: EGP 2,091,657,604 (closed in April 2018).
• Egypt’s fastest-growing and second-largest distributor of pharmaceutical products Ibn Sina in an initial public offering of up to 269,381,625 ordinary shares. Offering represents approximately 40% of the total share capital of the company and is distributed in two tranches, to be followed by a capital increase of up to 50 million shares specified to shareholders who sold their shares in the first offering (closed in November 2017).
• Palm Hills Development S.A.E in its initial public offering for a total valuation of USD 343,000,000.

• Capital markets: Debt
• Capital markets: Derivatives
• Capital markets: Equity
• Capital markets: High yield
• M&A

• Construction and materials
• Industrials
• Natural resources
• Pharma and life sciences
• Real estate
• Tourism

• American Chamber of Commerce – Member 

• LL.M. University of London, (2000)
• LL.B. Cairo University, (1999)