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Monday, 17 August 2020

EFG Hermes appoints Mohamed Gabr to head legal team

MOVES- EFG Hermes has appointed high profile corporate lawyer Mohamed Gabr (Linkedin) as general counsel and to provide strategic advice on the firm’s legal affairs, the firm said in a statement (pdf). Gabr made his name as a partner at Matouk Bassiouny and was an attorney at Zaki Hashem & Partners. He joins EFG from Nour & Partners in Association with Al Tamimi & Company, where he was partner and head of the company’s Corporate Commercial team. A graduate of Cairo University (LLB) and the American University in Cairo (BA, MA), Gabr was ranked in the International Financial Law Review 1000 for a five-year period spanning from 2012-2017.

Fawry’s board has accepted Mohamed Okasha’s (Linkedin) resignation from the board, according to a filing (pdf). Okasha stepped down as the company’s managing director in March.

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