Lawyer Monthly - June 2024

the head of terms which contained the cornerstones of this prosperous partnership then moved to the legal due diligence phase where we assisted our client in delivering all requested documents and in providing further information and clarification to any raised enquiries by Villeroy & Boch’s team. We were eager to later delve into the details of the transaction studying and negotiating the terms of the different agreements forming the transaction documents package including but not limited to the Joint Venture Agreement, License Agreement, Supply Agreement, Management Agreement and Distribution Agreement. After nearly a year of negotiations we were efficaciously able to reach common ground with Villeroy & Boch’s team and the set of agreements was successfully executed. Then, came our role in the post-execution phase where we happily assisted our client in fulfilling the condition precedents and subsequent obligations as per the agreed upon terms. In our team, we assemble a dynamic array of specialists, each finely specialised in their respective fields which we believe is crucial to negotiation and transactional success. Among them are adept minds in contract law, diligently crafting ironclad terms to safeguard our client’s interests. Our corporate structuring virtuosos orchestrate partnership agreements not just for legality but for optimal tax efficiency and governance, adding layers of strategic advantage. Meanwhile, our financial experts navigated the labyrinth of numbers, forecasting risks and returns with precision. Together, this symphony of Habiba, can you explain the role you and Essam Magdy played during this? What were the specialised skills that were part of your team and can you expand on how these were utilised for this particular transaction? Throughout this exciting journey my colleague, Essam Magdy (Senior Associate) and myself; directed by Dr Mohamed Sameh Amr (Founding and Managing Partner), enthusiastically managed to lead a team of lawyers to successfully close this significant transaction. Primarily, we started by negotiating TRANSACTION INTERVIEW 69 Lawyer Monthly had the pleasure to speak with Habiba Amr, Senior Counsel at Amr & Partners Law Firm to give us some further insight into this transaction: “A transaction that will forever remain engraved in my heart; on a professional level a transaction that taught me extensively and shaped me differently and on a personnel level one that accompanied me from the beginning to the very last days of my second pregnancy. Could not be more special!”

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