Omar Adel
Counsel

Omar Adel is a Counsel at Meysan and a member of the firm’s corporate team.
He has extensive experience in corporate transactions and advisory work, including providing legal advice on capital market law, handling legal due diligence, and drafting and reviewing various types of legal agreements. 

Omar also advises clients on antitrust and market control matters in accordance with Egyptian competition law. His expertise includes organizing distribution networks, drafting distribution agreements, handling competition disputes, and advising companies on the use of trade defense instruments, such as anti-dumping and safeguard measures. 

Professional Bodies 

Egyptian Bar Association 

Education 

– Bachelor of Law – Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University. 

– Bachelor of law – Cairo University. 

– Master’s degree in International & European Business Law – Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University. 

Practices 

Corporate/M&A  

Capital Markets  

Anti-Trust 

Experience
  • Represented Al Mansour Automotive in establishing their new automotive manufacturing facility in Egypt. 
  • Represented Beltone Holding in connection with its acquisition of SODIC for Securitization. 
  • Represented Beltone Holding in connection with its joint venture agreement (JVA) 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 facility. 
  • Represented GB Auto Group in connection with the sale of its 7.5% minority stake in MNT Investments B.V. to Chimera Investment for USD 60 million. 
  • Represented Beltone Holding in connection with its acquisition of Cash for Microfinance S.A.E. 
  • Represented Saint Gobain in connection with its acquisition of IDP for Chemicals. Transaction value confidential. 
  • Represented Development Partners International in connection with their minority stake sale in B.TECH to Saudi Egyptian Investment Company.  
  • Represented EFG Hermes (underwriters) with respect to the IPO of CIRA, the largest integrated provider of education services in the Egyptian private sector. 
  • Represented an Egyptian governmental entity regarding a mega national project. 
  • Represented and assisted SNCF in its participation (in a consortium) to a public tender issued by the Egyptian Government for the engineering, procurement, construction and operation and maintenance of a new high-speed train line (Al Alamein new high-speed train line). 
  • Represented Arcelor Mittal in the context of the anti-dumping proceeding and the safeguard measures respectively initiated by Egypt against imports of steel billets, rebars and wire rods from all origins, including Ukraine. 
  • Represented the Commercial International Bank (CIB) on the acquisition of Citibank’s Egyptian consumer business.  
  • Represented Development Partners International on the acquisition of 33% of B.TECH.  
  • Represented an international investment fund on the acquisition of 55% of an Egyptian industrial company. 
  • Represented Knockmart on the acquisition of the Arabian Company for Services and Trade (Dina Farms Stores).