Muhammad Nassef
Partner

Muhammad Nassef is a Partner at Meysan and leads our corporate practice in Cairo.
He has extensive experience advising and assisting clients across a broad range of corporate transactions, including share and asset acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, carveouts, and corporate structuring and reorganization. 

Muhammad also advises clients on complex commercial transactions and matters, such as agency, distributorship, licensing, and manufacturing arrangements. 

Additionally, he spent over a year practicing with a prominent firm in Dubai, focusing on the structuring and reorganization of family businesses. 

Professional Bodies 

Egyptian Bar Association  

Education 

– Cairo University, Faculty of Law (English Section), LLB, 2005  

– Cairo University, Faculty of Law, Diploma in International Commercial Law, 2007  

– University of Virginia School of Law, Master of Laws, 2010      

Practices 

Corporate 

Commercial  

Experience
  • Represented Al Mansour Automotive in establishing their new automotive manufacturing facility in Egypt. 
  • Represented Beltone Holding in connection with its acquisition of the shares in SODIC for Securitization. 
  • Represented Beltone Holding in connection with its joint venture with CRIF to launch Egypt’s second credit rating agency. 
  • Represented a leading automotive company in connection with its acquisition of an automotive feeding industrial company. 
  • Represented Beltone Holding in connection with its acquisition of the shares in Cash for Microfinance S.A.E. 
  • Represented Saint Gobain in connection with its acquisition of IDP for Chemicals.  
  • Represented Development Partners International in connection with its minority investment, and subsequent exit, from B.TECH, a leading Egyptian home appliances company.  
  • Represented the Commercial International Bank (CIB) on the acquisition of Citibank’s Egyptian consumer business.  
  • Represented an international investment fund on the acquisition of, and subsequent sale of, 55% in an Egyptian industrial company. 
  • Represented Cargill as local counsel in connection with launching a joint venture with Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) to provide soybean meal and oil to the Egyptian market. The JV is to run a soy crush facility in Alexandria, North of Egypt.  
  • Represented AlMansour Automotive in connection with the joint ventures related to the Peugeot and MG automotive distribution businesses.   
  • Represented Societe Nationale D’investissement in connection with its successful divestment of its Egyptian non-alcoholic beverage business to The Coca-Cola Company.  
  • Represented Pfizer in connection with the carve-out of certain assets in Egypt.   
  • Represented a consortium of investors in connection with the acquisition of the shares in Adwia Company, a leading Egyptian pharmaceutical manufacturer.  
Meysan Advises Al-Mansour Automotive Group on Automotive Manufacturing Project in Egypt
Meysan Advises Al-Mansour Automotive Gro...
November 4, 2025

We are pleased to announce that we advised and assisted Al-Mansour Automotive Group regarding the main agreements for the MAC Automotive Plant, an automotive manufacturing facility in 6th of October City, Egypt, for which the foundation stone was laid earlier this week. The project aligns with Egypt’s strategy to localize… Read more

Bank Asset Carveouts in Egypt: Navigating Legal Complexities
Bank Asset Carveouts in Egypt: Navigatin...
October 30, 2025

For a host of reasons, a bank may decide to carve out part of its business in one or more markets without fully exiting them. These reasons include offloading non-core assets and slashing/reducing regulatory compliance burdens. This may be a result of a global strategic review or a market-specific exercise.… Read more