Imane Raouf
Imane Raouf
Partner
Imane is a Partner at Matouk Bassiouny & Hennawy and a member of the Finance & Projects grouop. She specializes in debt capital market with extensive experience advising on structured finance, securitization, corporate bonds, sukuk, banking and finance, and non-banking financial services. Her practice also encompass corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and regulatory matters.
Imane advised a broad range of international and domestic financial institutions, issuers, originators, investment banks, and corporates on some of Egypt’s most significant and innovative financing transactions. She has played a leading role in numerous landmark securitizations, sustainable and social finance transactions, debt restructurings, syndicated financings, and capital markets offerings, many of which were first-of-their-kind transactions in the Egyptian market.
Before rejoining Matouk Bassiouny & Hennawy as a Partner in 2024, Imane headed the Capital Markets and Financial Services Department at Dreny & Partners Law Firm. She began her legal career at the Egyptian Competition Authority before joining Matouk Bassiouny & Hennawy, where she spent four years advising on complex finance and capital markets transactions.
Practice Focus
Imane’s primary practice focuses on Debt Capital Market and structured finance, with particular expertise in securitization, sukuk, corporate bonds, debt restructuring, and other debt capital products. She regularly advises issuers, arrangers, underwriters, trustees, and originators on complex capital markets transactions across multiple asset classes. Her practice also extends to Non-Banking Financial Services, where she advises leading microfinance, consumer finance, leasing, factoring, mortgage finance, fintech, and other regulated financial institutions on regulatory, licensing, financing, governance, and transactional matters. In addition, Imane advises clients on banking and finance transactions, syndicated lending, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, and general corporate and commercial matters.
Recent Rankings
Selected Recent Experience
- Representation of Al Ahly Tamkeen for Microfinance (“Al Ahly Tamkeen”) in connection with an EGP 881.5 million securitization transaction. This transaction marks the third overall issuance for Al Ahly Tamkeen and the first issuance under its multi-issuance securitization program, with an aggregate value of EGP 6 billion
- Representation of Tasaheel in connection with its ground-breaking EGP 7 billion sustainable sukuk issuance. This issuance is the largest of its kind in Africa and the first of its kind in Egypt. It also marks the country’s inaugural microfinance sukuk.
- Representation of Btech for Trade and Distribution S.A.E. (“Btech”) in connection with its securitization transaction (Second issuance of Capital Securitization Company’s Eighth securitization program amounting to an aggregate of EGP 5 billion) Transaction value EGP 1,560,500,000.
- Representation of Tasaheel for Financing S.A.E. (“Tasaheel”) in connection with a securitization transaction (First issuance of Capital Securitization Company’s Twelfth securitization program amounting to an aggregate of EGP 20 billion. Marking it as the largest of its kind in the region). Transaction value EGP 5.050 billion.
- Representation of Al Ahly Tamkeen for Microfinance (“Al Ahly Tamkeen”) in connection with a securitization transaction (Second issuance of Ahly for Securitization Company’s second program amounting to an aggregate of EGP 2 billion). Transaction value EGP 760 million.
- Representation of Tamweely Microfinance S.A.E (“Tamweely”) in connection with its inaugural EGP 782 million securitization transaction (First Issuance of the Fifth program with an aggregate value of EGP 5 billion).
- Representation of Tasaheel for Financing S.A.E. (“Tasaheel”) in connection with their social sustainability securitization transaction (Third Issuance of Capital’s Fourth Program amounting to an aggregate EGP 13,000,000,000). Transaction value EGP 3,919,000,000.
- Representation of the (“lenders”) in connection with a syndicated finance deal with 11 of the top banks in Egypt and the (“borrower”), Gharably Integrated Engineering Company (GIECO). Transaction value EGP 12.3 billion.
- Representation of Vodacom in connection with the acquisition of a 55% majority stake in Vodafone Egypt. Transaction value EUR 2.5 billion
- Representation of Arab Company for Projects and Urban Development (“ACUPID”) – an affiliate of Talaat Mostafa Group – in connection with the first-ever securitization backed by a portfolio of club membership fees. Transaction value EGP 410.8 million.
- Representation of GlobalCorp Financial Services in connection with their 4th securitization issuance amounting to EGP 2.54 billion of a 3-year multi-issuance program worth EGP 10 billion.
- Representation of Madinet Nasr for Housing & Development in connection with their securitization of the third issuance amounting to EGP 805,500,000 from a multi-issuance program worth EGP 3 billion.
- Representation of El Oula Mortgage in connection with their securitization of the second issuance transaction amounting to EGP 998.5 million from a multi-issuance program worth EGP 3 billion.
- Representation of Bedaya Mortgage in connection with their securitization of the first issuance amounting to EGP 958 million from a multi-issuance program worth EGP 3 billion.
- Representation of The New Urban Communities Authority’s securitized bond issuance with a value of EGP 10 billion.
- Representation of New Urban Communities Authority in connection with their first securitization worth EGP 15 billion from a multi-issuance program with a total value of EGP 30 billion.
- Representation of Enmaa Finance Company in connection with their first securitization for their financial leasing portfolio worth EGP 759 million, as part of a wider 3-year multi-issuance program with a total value of EGP 2 billion.
- Representation of Egypt’s leading BNPL ValU in connection with the first Fintech bond asset-backed securities transaction amounting to EGP 322.550 million of a 2 billion short-term multiple issuance program.
- Representation of a major consumer finance company in connection with its securitized bond issuance. Transaction value EGP 562 million.
- Representation of Premium International for Credit Services (Premium Card) in connection with its program of multiple securitization issuances worth EGP 2 billion.
Education
University of Paris I: Pantheon-Sorbonne (Paris, France): LL.M in international and European Business Law
2014
University of Paris I: Pantheon-Sorbonne (Paris, France): LL.B.
2012
Professional Associations and Memberships