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Hala Shukri
Managing Partner
I spend most of my time on acquisitions and on the financing that sits underneath them. What I have learned is that transactions fail on process far more often than on price — a missing corporate approval, a regulator nobody budgeted for, a shareholder who was never asked. So I front-load the boring parts. Clients sometimes find the first two weeks slower than they expected; they rarely find the last two weeks as painful as they feared.
- Practices
- Languages
- Arabic · English · French
- Bar admissions
- Egyptian Bar Association — Court of Cassation · 2016
- Egyptian Bar Association — Court of Appeal · 2008
- Education
- Cairo University · LL.B. · 2002
- Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne · LL.M., Business Law · 2005
- Office
- Cairo
- Contact
- h.shukri@hujja.law
Representative experience
- Advised a regional industrial group on the acquisition of an Egyptian manufacturer, value band USD 50–100m, acting for the purchaser. Jurisdiction: Egypt. Counterparty represented by international counsel.
- Advised a development finance institution on a senior facility to an Egyptian agribusiness, value band USD 20–50m, acting for the lender.
- Advised a family shareholder group on a governance restructuring and partial exit, value band undisclosed, acting for the sellers.
Publications and speaking
- Merger control in Egypt: the first year of the pre-closing regime (2025)
- Security over movable assets — what actually gets registered (2024)