Imane Raouf is a Partner at Matouk Bassiouny & Hennawy and a member of the Finance & Projects group. She specializes in debt capital markets and has extensive experience advising on structured finance, securitization, corporate bonds, sukuk, banking and finance, and non-banking financial services. Her practice also encompasses corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and regulatory matters.
Imane advises a broad range of international and domestic financial institutions, issuers, originators, investment banks, and corporates on some of Egypt’s most significant and innovative financing transactions. She has played a leading role in numerous landmark securitizations, sustainable and social finance transactions, debt restructurings, syndicated financings, and capital markets offerings, including several first-of-their-kind transactions in the Egyptian market.
Before rejoining Matouk Bassiouny & Hennawy as a Partner in 2024, Imane headed the Capital Markets and Financial Services Department at Dreny & Partners Law Firm. She began her legal career at the Egyptian Competition Authority and previously spent four years at Matouk Bassiouny & Hennawy advising on complex finance and capital markets transactions.
- Represented Al Ahly Tamkeen for Microfinance in connection with an EGP 881.5 million securitization transaction, marking the first issuance under its EGP 6 billion multi-issuance securitization program.
- Represented Tasaheel in connection with its EGP 7 billion sustainable sukuk issuance, the largest of its kind in Africa and the first microfinance sukuk issued in Egypt.
- Represented Btech for Trade and Distribution S.A.E. in connection with a securitization transaction valued at EGP 1.5605 billion under Capital Securitization Company’s eighth securitization program.
- Represented Tasaheel for Financing S.A.E. in connection with a securitization transaction valued at EGP 5.05 billion under Capital Securitization Company’s twelfth securitization program, the largest transaction of its kind in the region.
- Represented Al Ahly Tamkeen for Microfinance in connection with a securitization transaction valued at EGP 760 million under Ahly for Securitization Company’s second program.
- Banking
- Capital Markets: Debt
- Competition
- Financial Services Regulatory
- Islamic Finance
- Securitisation
- Structured Finance / Securitisation
- Banking
- Financial Services
- Government and Public Policy
- Investment Management
- Social Infrastructure
- LLM, in International and European Business Law, University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne, France (2014)
- LLB, University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne, France (2012)
