EHAB TAHA

Ehab has advised on diverse types of deals, including initial public offerings; GDRs, listing; delisting; listed acquisitions; complex high-profile acquisitions & divestments; and cross-border transactions. He provides buy side and sell side advisory and he has worked with numerous private equity, asset management and other investment funds. Equipped with almost 20 years of professional experience; solid legal training; deep transactional understanding; powerful negotiation tactics and all the pertinent high levels of committed and timely service provision, Ehab is one of the leading corporate legal advisers in Egypt. Prior to co-founding TMS Law Firm, Ehab founded and partnered with international and regional law firms in Egypt and served as an Assistant Public Prosecutor in 2001.

Ehab’s transactional record in Capital Markets, Placements and Restructuring includes:

 

• IPOs of TMG Holding, Palm Hills Developments and Amer Group, GDR of Commercial International Bank (“CIB”), De-listing of Masria Cards;
• Restructuring Sindbad Group, Al Ahram Beverages Company, Ideal Standard and the insurance companies of the Egyptian public sector;
• Private Placements of TMG Holding, Arab Company for Real Estate Development, MENA LTV’s (EFG-Hermes Asset Management) stake in Wadi Degla for Clubs, MENA LTV’s (EFG-Hermes Asset Management) stake in Kazion, Zooba Eats; and
• Investment Transaction of Catalyst Partners in seasonal peanut farming.

And his Mergers & Acquisitions record includes:

 

• Partial or Whole Acquisitions (and Investment Deals) of Fawry by the Egyptian American Enterprise Fund, Helios Investments and MENA LTV, Link Egypt and LinkdotNet by Orange Egypt, IT Worx by Capital Trust, Ridgewood for Water Desalination by EFG-Hermes Private Equity, AluNile by Ezdehar, Escraemeco, in Eastern Europe, by El Sewedy Cables, Beltone Brokerage and Beltone Financial Holding by Compass Capital; a printing house by Capital Trust, a maritime petroleum services company by EFG-Hermes Private Equity, the owning company of a hotel in Alexandria by Semaramis, a public transportation services company by a GCC company, a pharmaceutical company by Compass Capital, an Egyptian company, working in the field of production of limestone, by Omega, a company owning real estate in the Sinai peninsula by TMG Holding; the joint venture between the Zahran family and Group SEB and the legal due diligence conducted over the Saudi and Egyptian subsidiaries of El Sewedy Group of Companies;
• Sealed and Potential Divestments by Orange Egypt of one third of its passive network infra-structure and the Tarek Nour family of 49% of TN Holdings for Investment; and
• Potential Acquisitions, Investments and Privatization Deals of a government owned container handling company, a micro financing company by Beltone Financial Holding, Citibank Egypt by a banking corporation based in the GCC, CIL by a multinational insurance company.