Areas of Practice

We provide a comprehensive range of first-rate legal services for a wide variety of international and domestic corporate and governmental clients with the main objective being to provide innovative solutions to their challenging cases.

Capital Markets

Our leading capital markets practice consists of and represents the fields of bonds, securitization, private equity, and a wide variety of securities offerings across significant industries.

Dreny & Partners was named Capital Markets (Debt & Equity) Law Firm of the year by the Legal Community MENA Awards. Moreover, Dreny & Partners was ranked by IFLR1000 a Top Tier Firm in Capital Debt Market in 2022.

Since its inception, Dreny & Partners began to operate within this sector with the help of its resilient workforce that it has amassed along the way, resulting in it being considered by the market as a leading firm in this regard.

Given the firm’s recent large volume of corporate transactions, we are well-versed in various frequent matters requiring complex financing, such as corporate governance, debt finance, investment funds, real estate, tax, securities litigation, environmental, intellectual property, and ERISA. Moreover, the firm's emphasis on cooperation makes it simple to bring these diverse areas of knowledge to work for our clients.

Our team at Dreny & Partners are renowned for their knowledge and expertise, which allows them to occupy prominent positions in our respective practices, whilst delivering the highest quality advice. This extensive expertise enables us to focus on crucial matters while remaining responsive to the scheduling constraints that clients frequently face, while simultaneously developing long-term partnerships.

Corporate & Commercial

Our Corporate lawyers provide practical judgment, innovation, and a broad perspective to the board and board committees, senior management, and internal legal and compliance departments in the high-stakes and time-sensitive arenas of disclosure, shareholder activism, corporate governance, and compliance. In addition, we often advise businesses on day-to-day issues and are well-positioned to respond quickly and efficiently to specific problems and circumstances.

We build teams that address clients' unique operational issues by leveraging our industry-leading legal talent in securities, litigation and government investigations, M&A, executive compensation, shareholder activism, hostile takeover defence, and other practices throughout our firm. This multidisciplinary strategy combines best practices and practical judgments to assist clients in navigating increased scrutiny and litigation risk.

We advise many of the world's leading companies on all elements of corporate governance, securities legislation, and compliance, including:

  • Structure, operation, and compliance of the board and its committees

  • Charters for committees, code of conduct, other business initiatives, rules, and processes

  • Executive pay and contracts

  • CEO succession, board and board committee assessments, and board committee refreshment

  • Disclosure requirements for corporate governance

  • Director and Shareholder fiduciary obligations and responsibilities, as well as D&O safeguards

  • Measures to prepare for a takeover, stockholder activism, including shareholder proposals, and stockholder participation

  • Internal controls, compliance, and risk management, including financial restatements

  • Investigations, policing, and crisis management.

banking & finance

Our Banking & Finance team will seek representation in capital formation transactions, mergers and acquisitions, complex financings, and the design and development of capital-qualified debt and equity securities for financial institutions, banks, bank holding companies, investment banks, and investors. Dreny & Partners has previously represented private equity firms, financial services organizations, and public enterprises in a broad spectrum of transactional, corporate, securities, and related financing and commercial matters, and have also advised some of Egypt's leading banks on the design and development of capital-qualified debt.

In addition, we advise private equity groups within major financial institutions on the establishment and investment in private funds, their portfolio companies, and strategic acquisitions, as well as on formulating effective business strategies in response to regulatory reform initiatives, such as Gharably and Park Street.

Dreny & Partners aims to be known for its expertise in complex corporate deals. The firm's flexible structure and the Banking & Financial Institutions Practice Group's concentration on transactional matters complements Dreny & Partners full-service strategy, which draws on knowledge in several disciplines that may be assembled as needed to advise on complicated transactions.

Dreny & Partners advises clients on regulatory compliance difficulties, enforcement proceedings, holding company bankruptcy, governmental investigations, institutions, directors, and officials. The firm also represents buyers and sellers of failing institutions and buyers and sellers of failed institutions.

mergers & Acquisitions

Our Mergers & Acquisitions Practice team strives to accommodate high-profile, cutting-edge M&A deals year after year. We intend to constantly dominate the market regarding the volume and the value of transactions, representing public and private enterprises, financial sponsors, boards of directors, and financial advisers.

Our staff thrives in the face of challenges. We look at problems holistically and manage all facts of a contract, not just the legal techniques, using new legal viewpoints and commercial understanding. Dreny & Partners M&A team expertly assists clients in optimal outcomes across various sectors and regions. For example, using our tactics in our most recent transaction, the acquisition of a 55% stake in Vodafone Egypt by Vodacom as the acquiring entity, with the deal being valued at € 2.5 billion.

Furthermore, Dreny & Partners is currently concentrating on covering a broad spectrum of cross-border and contentious transactions. The team will further advise public firms dealing with activist shareholders and other complicated governance issues.

The purpose of the M&A practice is being internationally coordinated, with the unique capacity to bring together best-in-class attorneys from all key markets across an enormous M&A platform. This comprises renowned tax, finance, antitrust, intellectual property, regulatory, and executive pay attorneys who work together to create a smooth and integrated service.

Aside from generating excellent outcomes, we are intensely devoted to customer service and quality, building numerous long-term connections. Consequently, Dreny & Partners hopes that many of the sophisticated participants in the M&A field are quick to hire us. Dreny & Partner's ability to find unique, constructive solutions, along with hard work and enthusiasm, guarantees that the firm continually strives to be the top choice for the highest-quality legal services in the M&A sector.

Financial Restructuring

Our lawyers have unique, widespread experience in complex financial and operational restructurings and insolvency proceedings, including representing debtors, distressed investors, and creditors in all restructuring efforts.

Dreny & Partners acts on behalf of domestic and multinational corporations experiencing financial difficulties, lenders or creditors in contentious restructurings, and private equity or hedge funds looking to take a stake in a stressed or distressed company.

Furthermore, we regularly draw upon and benefit from the experience of Dreny & Partners internationally recognized lawyers in securities, debt finance, tax, real estate, litigation, and intellectual property to provide the full-service capabilities our clients need for the various legal matters they retain Dreny & Partners to handle.

Real Estate & Property Regulations

The Real Estate Practice at Dreny & Partners comprises of highly experienced and diversified attorneys that use their extensive real estate knowledge to a wide range of challenges related to commercial transactions. The firm has constructed and maintained a solid real estate practice that stands prominently within the firm.

Every year, the group's goal is to represent more of the industry's most active and sophisticated private equity sponsors, as well as publicly traded REITs, sovereign wealth funds, major pension entities, and other institutional investors in their real estate and actual estate-related activities, from fundraising and structuring to capital deployment and final disposition, mergers, and private transactions, and recapitalizing such investment equities.

In addition, the group advises lenders and borrowers on a wide range of real estate finance transactions across the whole capital structure, such as corporate term loans, revolving credit facilities, and bond issuances.

Dreny & Partners has built its real estate business to satisfy the different needs of its clients as it recognizes that real estate transactions span a wide range of specialties. We often advise significant industry customers on several issues, including but not limited: 

  • Acquisitions and dispositions of single assets, portfolios, majority, minority equity positions, and performing and non-performing loans;

  • Real estate private equity fund formations and advisory-related matters;

  • The first mortgage transaction in Egypt; and

  • Joint ventures (including one-off partnerships, programmatic joint ventures, platforms, and club arrangements) involving all asset classes;

  • Complex debt restructurings, workouts, and equity recapitalizations, including own loan transactions.

Non-Banking Financial Services

Dreny & Partners covers non-banking financial services and provides transactional and regulatory counsel to industry stakeholders in the insurance, asset management, and banking sectors. In addition to that, the firm has an extensive experience in non-banking financial activities, which includes financial leasing, factoring, consumer finance, microfinance, as well as handling the incorporation and licensing of financial institution. These forms of complex transactions require lawyers who have devoted their careers to certain businesses and who have the resources and capabilities to execute, which our team's track record has proven throughout.

IP & Trademarks

Our Intellectual Property practice safeguards our clients' ideas, technologies, products, and trademarks. All clients from various sectors use our services for sophisticated intellectual property litigation, transactions, and consulting. We assist clients to safeguard their market position and utilize their intellectual property, from industry leaders to innovative start-ups. Our clients benefit from our enormous market information due to the number, size, and nature of the cases undertaken by the firm.

Furthermore, we have over 22 lawyers dedicated to negotiating, structuring, and closing complex transactions driven by innovation or technological opportunities, such as joint ventures, strategic alliances, licenses, outsourcing, collaborations, and other strategic commercial agreements. As a result, we oversee business arrangements from all angles and fully understand the diverse needs of all parties to a particular transaction.

Competition Law & Antitrust Rules

Our Antitrust & Competition Practice group assists clients in navigating the most critical obstacles and opportunities related to market fairness. Our integrated team provides legal counsel on all facets of competition law. Furthermore, we offer advice on the specific aspects listed below:

  • Civil Antitrust Lawsuit Defence;

  • Egyptian Competition Authority;

  • Fast Transaction Clearance;

  • Real-World Counselling Expertise. 

Dreny & Partners has expertise in several practice areas within the market and advises customers on competition-related issues. However, under the direction of the firm's partners, the department in charge of this practice area assists clients with post-notification and pre-notification of approvals.

Furthermore, the team produces pre-merger notification approval; owing to recent Egyptian Competition Authority modifications, they must assess each deal beyond a certain amount of capital and determine if it satisfies the necessary requirements.

Litigation

Our clients depend on us to anticipate their requirements and exceed their expectations since we are known for our expertise in complicated litigation and arbitration. The finest litigation outcomes, whether in court or at the negotiating table, occur when the attorneys are fully prepared to try the matter to a verdict. Our emphasis on trial-readiness results in more successful and cost-effective outcomes for clients, as significant issues are discovered early and leveraged to the greatest advantage throughout the litigation and negotiating processes.

Our litigation department represents clients in national and state trial and appellate courts, administrative tribunals, and other dispute resolution proceedings. We also represent clients in processes involving government authorities.