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 law firm boasts extensive expertise in navigating the complexities of the capital markets landscape. Our meticulous approach includes conducting thorough legal due diligence, in-depth research, and meticulous preparation and evaluation of transaction documentation.
With a keen understanding of regulatory frameworks and market dynamics, we ensure that our clients receive tailored solutions that meet their strategic objectives while mitigating risks. Our firm is committed to delivering excellence and achieving optimal outcomes in the ever-evolving realm of capital markets.
The firm advised more than 90% of the capital market transactions that took place in Egypt for renowned corporations working in diverse fields, including microfinance, real estate, consumer finance, financial leasing, factoring, as well as mortgage finance and refinance.
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 practice is distinguished by its comprehensive expertise and commitment to delivering exceptional legal services to financial institutions, borrowers, and lenders. We provide strategic advice on a broad range of financial transactions, including structured finance, project finance, asset finance, and syndicated lending.
Our team excels in navigating complex regulatory environments and ensuring compliance with national and international banking regulations. With a deep understanding of financial markets and innovative problem-solving capabilities, we tailor our solutions to meet the unique needs of each client.
Our proven track record of successful transactions and unwavering dedication to excellence, confidentiality, and integrity underscores our position as a trusted advisor in the banking and finance sector.
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.