Khaled Diaa
Khaled Diaa
Partner
Khaled is a Partner at Matouk Bassiouny and Hennawy’s Corporate and M&A group. With over 11 years of experience, he is a trusted advisor to multinational corporations, private equity firms, and strategic investors on complex acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity deals, and capital market transactions. He has deep expertise in cross-border structuring, regulatory compliance, and strategic investments across a wide range of sectors, including technology, healthcare, financial services, and energy, positioning him as a go-to counsel for clients operating in highly regulated and fast-evolving industries.
Practice Focus
Khaled’s focus is on M&A transactions, and usually represents clients in major and high-value matters. His practice involves drafting a wide range of agreements, preparing transaction documents, undertaking in-depth legal research, performing rigorous legal due diligence, and providing legal advice throughout the deal lifecycle.
Selected Recent Experience
- Representation of Edita Food Industries in connection with its acquisition of a 100% equity stake in Fancy Foods S.A.E. – an industrial bakery with automated food production technology specializing in frozen bakery products. Transaction value: EGP 380 million.
- Representation of Zahran Market in connection with the sale of 40% of its remaining minority stake to Ezdehar Management. Transaction value confidential.
- Representation of Saudi Public Investment Fund (“PIF”) in connection with their acquisition of major minority stakes in four Egyptian Exchange-listed companies through its investment arm the Saudi Egyptian Investment Company. Transaction value: confidential.
- Representation of ADQ in connection with its majority stake acquisition of UniFrutti Group - a leading fresh fruit company. Transaction value: confidential.
- Representation of Agthia Group, the leading Abu Dhabi based food and beverages company listed on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange, in connection with its majority 75.02% stake acquisition of Ismailia Investments (“Atyab”), one of Egypt’s esteemed producers of frozen processed chicken and beef products. Transaction value: confidential.
- Representation of First Abu Dhabi Bank (“FAB”) in connection with its 100% acquisition of Bank Audi SAE, Bank Audi’s subsidiary in Egypt. Transaction value: USD 600 million.
- Representation of Match in connection with the acquisition of Harmonica for IT. The instructions included providing legal advice and reviewing the transaction documentation. Transaction value: confidential.
- Representation of Abu Dhabi Developmental Holding Company PJSC (“ADQ”), in its acquisition of Amoun Pharmaceutical Company, one of Egypt’s leading manufacturers, distributors and exporters of pharmaceutical and animal health products, from Bausch Health Companies. Transaction value: confidential.
- Representation of an affiliate of Meridian Investment (Russia) on the divestment of 60% of “TBE Egypt for Payment Solutions and Services” to affiliates of BPE Partners (Egypt). EGP 165 million.
- Representation of KBBO, a UAE based Investment Group on the acquisition of 60% of Flying Elephant Lab (the largest Series A investment in Egypt until 2015), the owner and operator of Yaoota website (shopping search engine). Transaction value: USD 2.7 million.
- Representation of Sarwa Capital in connection with an international public offering intended to finance a capital increase and partial exit of some of its major shareholders. Transaction value is EGP 2,172,456,580,15.
- Representation of 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.
- Representation of Etisalat in a capital increase valued at EGP 4.5 billion (23.16%) – placing the telecommunications giant paid capital at a total of EGP 19.43 billion. The capital increase ‐ directed towards older shareholders – comes in the context of the company investing around EGP 2.5 billion for the development of its network.
- Representation of Cairo 3A in connection with the public takeover of NCMP. Transaction value EGP 1.74 billion.
- Representation of Neptune Energy Group as local counsel (transaction internationally led by Freshfields Bruckhaus Derigner) in the acquisition of Engie E&P. Significant business acquired by Neptune includes operations in the North Sea of Norway. Matter value: USD 3.9 billion (closed in October 2017).
Education
Cairo University, Faculty of Law – PhD in Law.
2025
Cairo University, Faculty of Law – Criminal Law Diploma.
2016
Cairo University, Faculty of Law – Public Law Diploma. (“Good” Degree)
2015
Cairo University, FLES – LL.B. (“Very Good with Honors” Degree)
2014
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