Heba has over 15 years of experience and her practice includes oil & gas, mineral resources, M&As, competition, insurance, intellectual property, and general commercial law.
Prior to joining the firm in 2012, she gained experience advising multinational clients in the USA and UAE in relation to their investments in Egypt. Heba interned at Rouse & Co. International (UAE offices), where she advised clients on several intellectual property issues in the MENA region, including a global tech giant. Heba advised on telecommunication laws in the region during her tenure with a leading telecom advisory group in USA She also served as external legal consultant to The Egyptian Cabinet Information & Decision Support Centre, advising on several regulatory projects, with a focus on PPP and data protection.
Heba regularly advises high profile clients on M&A transactions, which often include cross-border complexities.
- Heba’s practice focuses on regulated sectors, especially in the oil and gas and mineral resources sectors. Her clients include IOCs, independent oil & gas companies and NOCs, as well as international mining companies.
- Throughout her career Heba assisted on and advised on big-ticket transactions including the sale of Société Générale’s Egyptian Unit to QNB estimated at USD 2 billion, Centamin Plc in obtaining licenses for gold mining under EMRA’s 2020(1) bid round, Eni’s ieoc sale of contractor stakes in Shorouk Concession where the giant East Med Zohr field exists to BP, Rosneft and Mubadala respectively, Dragon Oil in the acquisition of BP’s Egyptian oil assets , and more recently advising Energean Plc on its acquisition of Egyptian oil and gas assets from Edison SpA.
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- Banking
- Competition
- Financial restructuring
- M&A
- PPP/PFI
- Private equity
- Private equity funds
- Project bonds
- Project development
- Project finance
- Real estate finance
- Real estate funds
- Securitisation
- Trade finance
- Energy
- Natural resources
- Oil and gas
- Mining
- LLB, Faculty of Law, English Section, Cairo University (with distinguished honours as the highest-ranking LLB candidate in the English Section), 2001.
- PHD in Philosophy of Law, King’s College London, University of London
- LLM, the George Washington University Law School
- Masters in Private law and Intellectual Property Law, Faculty of Law, Cairo University