Khaled Ghanem
Khaled Ghanem
Counsel
Khaled is a Counsel at Matouk Bassiouny & Hennawy and a Corporate and M&A practice group member. He has over nine years of experience in general corporate, commercial, M&A, and capital market transactions involving listed companies, including IPOs, and tender offers. He has served clients across multiple sectors including higher education, food & beverages, private equity, and investment.
Practice Focus
Khaled’s practice focuses on due diligence, restructuring, drafting and negotiating Share Purchase Agreements, Shareholders’ Agreements, Escrow Agreements, and the execution of said Agreements on IPOs, MTOs, mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and capital market transactions along with general corporate matters.
Selected Recent Experience
- Representation of AfricInvest – a prominent pan-African private equity firm – in connection with its minority stake acquisition of the quotas of the British University in Egypt. Transaction value: Confidential (ongoing).
- Representation of CI Capital, the Egyptian investment bank, 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.
- Representation of CI Capital Holding in the listing on the EGX and IPO, which raised EGP 1.7 billion.
- Representation of EFG Hermes Private Equity in its acquisition of a New Cairo-based elementary schools’ portfolio from Talaat Moustafa Group Holding (TMG Holding), Egypt’s largest listed real estate developer. Transaction value: EGP 1 billion.
- Representation of Tag El Melouk (a market leader in the production of baking powder, Vanilla and salt, among other products) as local counsel in connection with selling 100% of its shares to Dr. Oetker. Transaction value: confidential.
- Representation of Compass Group in the sale of 100% of its stake in Compass Egypt for Hotels and Food Services to Tsebo. Transaction value: EGP 140 million.
- Representation of Tana Capital, an Africa-focused investment company, in its minority stake acquisition of Alexandria Medical Investment Company, the majority shareholder of Mabaret Al Asafra Hospitals Group in Alexandria. Transaction value: USD 18 million.
- Representation of Ezdehar Management in its minority stake acquisition of Al-Tayseer Healthcare Group through Ezdehar Egypt Mid-Cap Fund.
- Representation of Taaleem Management Services Company, one of CI Capital Holding Investments’ ventures, and the owner and operator of Nahda University in Beni Suef (NUB), in the listing on the EGX and IPO, which raised EGP 2.1 billion.
- Khaled is currently working on several transactions concerning leading companies in the healthcare, higher education and real estate sectors.
Education
American University in Cairo (Egypt): Professional Diploma in Legal and UN Translation
2018
Mansoura University (Egypt): LL.M in International Law.
2015
Mansoura University (Egypt): Bachelor of Law.
2013
Publications
Professional Associations and Memberships