Rehan El-Bashary is a Partner of Shahid Law Firm. Rehan has over 10 years of transactional experience and specializes in joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, cross-border transactions, equity and convertible debt funding rounds, divestures, creating and vetting corporate structures and restructurings. Throughout her career, she gained experience in perfecting corporate governance and best practices for multinational operations in the various industries she was exposed to.
Prior to re-joining Shahid Law Firm in 2018, Rehan worked as a Legal Affairs Manager at Gemini Egypt Holding for Financial Investments, a Sawiris Family Office Company, which her experience included handling high-profile transactions in the financial services, real-estate development and tourism sectors; particularly, advising on the landmark sale of the majority stake in Egypt’s leading microfinance institution; Reefy for Microfinance Services to CI Capital. Rehan also advised on the acquisition of the majority stake in M.M. Makronisos Marina Ltd, a company which holds the concession for the development of the marina in Ayia Napa area in Cyprus; and had assisted as well in the restructuring and consolidation of Gemini’s ownership in Elite Estates, the owner of a luxurious real estate project in Pakistan.
In addition to her position as a Managing Associate at Shahid Law Firm, Rehan is also the Head of “Venture by Shahid”; a department created under the Firm that provides legal services to the startup ecosystem and venture capital funds.
Rehan advises many leading multinational companies, investors and entrepreneurs in different sectors, both local and international markets, including digital and technology, FinTech, E-commerce, Native Ads, real estate, F&B, and entertainment. She also advises startups, venture capital funds and high-net-worth individuals in connection with equity and convertible debt funding.
Her recent experience includes advising Business Boomers for E-commerce, a subscription-based E-commerce platform on its equity financing rounds, advising Sawari Ventures, a venture capital fund on its equity financing round in Egypt-based E-commerce and retail company ExpandCart, and advising Statsbomb Services Limited, a British football analytics company in connection with handling the acquisition of the entire share capital of Arqam FC, a Cairo-based sports data startup. She also Advised Best Merchants Partners, a company specialized in founding, building and managing high-growth, tech-enabled higher education businesses, on the collaboration with universities in Egypt by managing online programs and the structure of the implementation of the project in Egypt.
Rehan is also a member of the Business Women of Egypt 21 (BWE 21) and a board member of Banati NGO.