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Key contacts
Partner: Nahla Djabi
Quick facts
# Partners

38

# Practitioners (worldwide)

270+

Languages

Arabic, English, French, Korean

Network memberships

GGI, TerraLex, IFG

Key practice areas
Financial and corporate
Firm overview

Matouk Bassiouny is a full-service regional law firm with a fully operational office in Algiers, providing comprehensive legal services across Algeria. The firm combines local market knowledge with international standards and works closely with its offices across the MENA region through sector-focused practice groups.

The firm provides advisory and transactional services to local and foreign investors, as well as dispute resolution services in English, French and Arabic before Algerian courts and regional arbitral tribunals. Its litigation team includes attorneys qualified before the Appellate Courts and the Court of Cassation in Algeria.

Matouk Bassiouny maintains strong working relationships with key Algerian authorities, enabling efficient navigation of administrative processes. The firm adopts a client-centric, results-oriented approach, delivering practical and actionable legal advice aligned with clients' strategic objectives.

Key practice areas

  • Asset finance
  • Banking
  • Capital markets: Debt
  • Capital markets: Derivatives
  • Capital markets: Equity
  • Capital markets: High yield
  • Competition
  • Financial restructuring
  • Financial services regulatory
  • Investment funds
  • Islamic finance
  • M&A
  • Private equity
  • Private equity funds
  • Project bonds
  • Project development
  • Project finance
  • Real estate finance
  • Real estate funds
  • Restructuring and insolvency
  • Securitisation
  • Structured finance/securitisation
Sector expertise

  • Agriculture
  • Aviation
  • Automotive
  • Banking
  • Construction and materials
  • Consumer goods and services
  • Energy
  • Financial services
  • Food and beverage
  • Government and public policy
  • Healthcare
  • Industrials
  • Insurance
  • Investment management
  • Media
  • Mining
  • Natural resources
  • Oil and gas
  • Pharmaceutical and life sciences
  • Real estate
  • Shipping
  • Technology and telecommunications
  • Tourism
  • Transport
  • Utilities
Other offices

ABU DHABI OFFICE

24th Floor, Al Sila Tower
Regus, ADGM Square
UAE

T: +(971) 2694 8657
E: info@matoukbassiouny.com
W:matoukbassiouny.com

CAIRO OFFICE

12 Mohamed Ali Genah
Garden City
Egypt

T: +(202) 2796 2042
E: info@matoukbassiouny.com
W: matoukbassiouny.com

KHARTOUM OFFICE

Khartoum South, Plot No. 3 Block No. 1/KH
Khartoum
Sudan

T: +(249) 183 483344
E: info@matoukbassiouny.com
W: matoukbassiouny.com

Address:
28 Boulevard Colonel Bougara
El Biar
Algiers
Tel:+213 770 073 774 Email:Contact Us Web Address:https://matoukbassiouny.com
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Linked Reviews
Financial and corporate

Matouk Bassiouny association with SH-Avocats (“MB-SH”) Algeria is a flourishing Algerian law firm headquartered since 2017 in Algiers offering an integrated and efficient service combining a true on-the-ground knowledge with international standards. The Algerian team of lawyers works with other offices in the MENA region (Egypt, Sudan, and the U.A.E.) which allows them to work with more than 200 lawyers regionally. 

  

 

 Highlights 

The firm is assisting Reckitt Benckiser Group in assessing the possibilities of incorporating a legal entity in Algeria and advising on the best structuring of their activity considering the restrictions applicable to importation and resale in Algeria. 

The firm is also advising Aramex on all corporate matters. 

 

Key clients 

Aramex, Radisson Blu, Reckitt Benckiser, Roche, and Uber. 

 
 

 

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Mahmoud Bassiouny, regional managing partner at Matouk Bassiouny & Hennawy, highlights the firm’s achievements in the renewable energy space
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