Imane Raouf
Imane Raouf
Partner
Imane Raouf is a Partner at Matouk Bassiouny & Hennawy and a member of the Finance & Projects team. She specializes in financing, capital markets, banking, corporate governance, M&A, and debt capital. Throughout her career, she has worked on varying transactions for several international and local clients, differing in both scope and complexity. Before joining the firm, she was a partner and the head of the capital markets and financial services department at a leading local law firm. She also worked for the Egyptian Competition Authority, making her an expert in all competition-related matters. She participated in major initial public offerings, including drafting the appropriate sections of the International Prospectus or Offering Memorandum and reviewing underwriting agreements.
Practice Focus
Imane’s practice focuses on several overlapping expertise in differing legal disciplines such as capital markets, debt capital, private bonds, securitization, debt restructuring, general corporate work, M&A transactions, IPOs, private placements, restructuring, microfinance, incorporation, facility agreements, licensing, and other debt-equity linked matters.
Selected Recent Experience
- 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 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.
- Representation of Qasatli Mortgage in connection with a securitization transaction (Second issuance of the securitization program amounting to EGP 6.5 billion) Transaction value EGP 159,200,000.
- Representation of EMRC in connection with a securitization transaction (First issuance of the securitization program amounting to EGP 3 billion) Transaction value EGP 472,000,000.
- Representation of Tamweel Mortgage in connection with a securitization transaction, marking the largest securitization transaction in Egypt in 2022 (Second issuance of the securitization program amounting to EGP 4 billion) Transaction value EGP 1,695,200,000
- Representation of Tamweel Mortgage in connection with a securitization transaction (First issuance of the securitization program amounting to EGP 4 billion) Transaction value EGP 1,598,400,000
- Representation of Bedaya Mortgage in connection with a securitization transaction, (Second issuance of the securitization program amounting to EGP 3 billion) Transaction value EGP 958,000,000
- Representation of Bedaya Mortgage in connection with a securitization transaction, marking the first securitization for a real estate mortgage company in Egypt. (First issuance of the securitization program amounting to EGP 3 billion) Transaction value EGP 651,200,000
- Representation of Al Oula Mortgage in connection with a securitization transaction (First issuance of the securitization program amounting to EGP 3 billion) Transaction value EGP 998,500,000
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