Osama Abdelmawla, Partner, joined ZH in 2018 with a particular focus on the corporate practice and mergers & acquisitions. He renders general legal opinions to clients on both corporate and commercial matters, undertakes the procedures of companies’ incorporation as related to capital market and investment laws, and handles amendments of companies’ statutory documents.
He has extensive experience in corporate and compliance matters as well as the different types of agreements and business relationships including all corporate work such as general corporate resolutions, amending articles of association, capital reduction/increase, and advising on structuring/re-organization of companies and shareholders arrangements. He has advised multinational, national, and governmental entities, advised in dealing with governmental authorities, and in drafting a wide range of agreements including shareholders agreement, share purchase agreements, and joint ventures.
With over 20 years of experience, selected examples of the matters handled by Osama include:
- Acting as the Local Legal Counsel to Alexandria Container and Cargo Handling Company SAE in the anticipated follow-on offering on the Egyptian Stock Exchange of Up to 20% of the issued share capital of the Company. (2020)
- Undertaking the sell-side due diligence of Fawry for Banking Technology Electronic and Payment SAE in the Initial Public Offering with a value of EGP 1.65 billion (and coordinating all IPO procedures with the issuer’s counsel). (2019)
- Advising the Egyptian Countryside Development Company (Al-Reef Al-Masry for Development) in the National Project for Reclaiming and Cultivating 1.5 million Feddans. (2018)
- Advising the shareholders and management of Damietta Furniture City SAE in the establishment of the new industrial furniture city at Damietta Governorate for SMEs and strategic industrial investors. (2018)
- Leading the team advising UAE Sovereign fund in divestment of some of its assets in Egypt.
- Advising on the restructuring of an Egyptian company working in the field of food and beverage Industry in preparation of its acquisition by a multinational fund.
- Leading the team advising a leading international company working in the field of airports security checks in its acquisition of an Egyptian company working in the same field as part of a global team.
- Leading the team working with a Saudi fund in the field of white goods in its penetration of the Egyptian market through the acquisition of a leading Egyptian entity working in the same filed.
- Leading the team advising the largest milk producer in the Arab region in its potential acquisition of an Egyptian company whose activities include the ownership and operation of cattle, fruit and vegetable farms’ the production of dairy and dry dairy products, and the ownership and operation of supermarkets.
- Leading the team advising one of the largest chemical producers worldwide in its global restructuring and split of business on the Egyptian and Middle East level.
He is member of the Egyptian Bar Association since 2004, has been admitted before the Egyptian Courts of Appeal in 2013, and admitted before the Egyptian Courts of Cassation in 2023. He is proficient in Arabic and English.
Osama achieved the LL.B. from Cairo University’s School of Law (English Section) in 2004.
