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Welcome to Safwat & Partners
We are a boutique law firm established by two partners Sherif Safwat and Hoda Etman. Accumulating the experience of more than fifteen years of practicing law in distinguished law firms in Egypt, they decided to establish their private practice boutique law firm
We are focusing on mergers and acquisitions, capital market, debt financing, banking, tax, general corporate, labour matters, as well as trade and commerce.
Since quality is not our target but it is our life style, we are keen to provide our clients with the highest quality of legal services with very competitive rates.
Our Goal
We provide a focused legal service and treat each client as being "the one and only client".
Our inevitable goal is to meet our clients' satisfaction and business needs in the bureaucratic and complex Egyptian legal regime.
Business Partners
Our clients are our bussiness partners.
In order to meet our clients' full convenience, we are also always in direct contact and closely working with law firms in foreign jurisdictions such as the United Kingdom, Germany, and France, inter alia.
Location
We have selected our location with complete diligence as to meet our clients' satisfaction.
S&P is almost 20 minutes far away from Cairo International Airport, through Suez – Cairo Road.
Our Experience
Weighing on the wealthy and diversified experience of the members of the firms, we have succeeded since our inception to extend our legal services to multinational and local companies. We have also been selected to act as legal advisors on several transactions and corporate restructuring including the following:
Conducted a vendor due diligence on a leading Egyptian manufacturing company.
Headed the Egyptian legal team in the successful acquisition of a medium size manufacturing company in Scotland by an Egyptian textile company.
In close cooperation with a UK law firm, played a key role in the corporate restructuring of a multinational group of companies working in the medical and pharmaceutical fields.
Sherif Safwat
Founding Partner
A corporate lawyer with more that than 15 years of experience. Previously a partner and a key player at an International Law Firm working in Egypt. Sherif has a broad experience in mergers & acquisitions, capital market, securities, banking law, general corporate, trade & commerce, labour & employment, and commercial transactions.
Sherif obtained his LL.B from School of Law, English Department, Cairo University, and he obtained LL.M with Merit in "International Business Law" in 2008 – 2009 from Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, focusing on international banking and finance regulations as well as capital market law. He was ranked as the second of the International Business Law Department. He obtained a "distinction" on his LL.M dissertation titled as "Tender Offer Rules under Egyptian Law".
Sherif is a member of the Egyptian Bar Association since 2002, and he is currently admitted to appear before Egyptian courts of appeal. He is also a member of Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London Alumni since 2009.
Hoda Etman
Partner
Hoda was previously a partner, a team leader in a tier one international law firm in Egypt. Hoda has more than 15 years of experience focusing on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, debt financing, general corporate, banking law, tax law, and labour law.
Hoda holds a Maitrise in international Business Law from Paris I - Pantheon Sorbonne, a Bachelor of Law from Cairo University - Faculty of Law in May 2000.
Hoda is a member of the Egyptian Bar Association since 2001, and she is currently admitted to appear before Egyptian courts of appeal.
What we offer
We offer our clients with legal services in corporate and commercial matters with focus on certain practice areas.
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Mergers & Acquisitions
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Capital Market
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Debt Financing
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Trade & Commerce
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Banking
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Taxes
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Labour & Employment
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General Corporate
Contact Us!
SAFWAT & PARTNERS
Legal Consultants
4(A), Hassan Mazhar Street (off Al-Horreya Street),
Apartment No. (4), First Floor
Heliopolis, Cairo – Egypt
- +2 02 241 45 180
- +2 02 24189364
- info@safwatpartners.com