Mona Zulficar

As a founding partner and chair of the Executive Committee, Ms Mona Zulficar oversees the operations of the Firm’s six departments; specialized in assisting our clients in various practice areas. A practising attorney for more than 30 years, she is a specialist in major financial, industrial, and commercial transactions and has negotiated, drafted, and concluded all the major contracts required by some of the most important joint venture businesses in Egypt. Involved in major restructuring of companies, M&A transactions, and is particularly recognized for handling groundbreaking and precedent transactions, such as the largest transaction in the history of the Middle East relating to the sale of Orascom Building Materials Holding SAE to Lafarge, for approximately USD13 billion in addition to USD2 billion of assumed debt, and most recently, she leads the team responsible for the first successful PPP Project in Egypt.

- Bachelor's Degree in Political Science and from Cairo University - Law Degree (LLB) from Mansoura University - Honorary doctorate degree from the University of Zurich