Dr. Mohamed Abo Ghazala
Senior legal expert with over 17 years advising clients on commercial transactions and disputes across Egypt and the region.
Dr. Mohamed Abo Ghazala is a senior corporate and commercial legal advisor with over 19 years of experience advising local, regional, and international clients on complex corporate transactions, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, industrial investments, regulatory compliance, corporate governance, and high-value commercial arrangements across Egypt and the MENA region.
Dr. Abo Ghazala has extensive experience in structuring and implementing strategic investment projects, particularly in the industrial, energy, petrochemicals, manufacturing, healthcare, agriculture, technology, mining, education, hospitality, and infrastructure-related sectors. His practice covers the full lifecycle of corporate and investment transactions, including legal structuring, company incorporation, shareholders’ agreements, memoranda of understanding, share purchase agreements, joint venture arrangements, due diligence, regulatory filings, licensing, board and general assembly procedures, corporate governance, and post-incorporation compliance.
He served as Head of Legal / Legal Technical Director for International Investments under the Presidential Initiative for the Development of Egyptian Industry, EBDA, where he played a key role in supporting the legal structuring and negotiation of major industrial localization projects. During his tenure, he contributed to negotiations involving approximately 76 strategic projects with an aggregate investment value reported at approximately USD 100 billion, supported the establishment of 25 Egyptian joint stock companies, and contributed to the drafting and negotiation of numerous shareholders’ agreements, memoranda of understanding, protocols, framework agreements, and other transaction-related documents.
Dr. Abo Ghazala also has significant experience advising on corporate restructuring, group reorganizations, distressed business solutions, operational compliance, and business continuity matters. His work includes restructuring multi-entity business groups under holding company structures, consolidating operating vehicles, rationalizing corporate ownership, organizing internal workflows, managing post-restructuring compliance, supporting trademark registration and brand protection, and advising on safe closure and orderly wind-down strategies.
He regularly advises clients on corporate governance, regulatory and licensing matters, investment structuring, shareholder relations, commercial contracts, banking and financing support, restructuring matters, and legal risk mitigation. He has advised clients and projects involving Egypt, the GCC, Europe, Canada, China, and other cross-border jurisdictions, including foreign investors seeking to establish, acquire, restructure, or expand their operations in Egypt.
Dr. Abo Ghazala holds a PhD in Law from Ain Shams University, a Master’s degree in Administrative Sciences from Cairo University, and an LL.B. from Helwan University. He combines strong academic credentials with extensive practical transactional experience, enabling him to provide commercially focused legal advice on complex corporate, regulatory, and investment matters.