International Referral, the world’s largest exclusive network of advisory firms is delighted to introduce Dr. Ramy El Borai of El-Borai & Partners. Ramy has joined IR as our exclusive Employment Law (Corporate) member in Egypt.
Dr. Ramy El Borai, managing partner at El-Borai & Partners, is admitted to practice law in Egypt and in the State of New York.
He advises on various aspects of commercial, corporate, banking and finance law and has closed on diverse and complex transactions, covering a wide array of structures such as Project Finance, Asset-backed Finance, Capital Leasing, Derivatives, Loan Syndications and Risk-Participation Agreements. He has accumulated extensive expertise in investment banking transactions, including initial public offerings, private placements, debt raising exercises along with the foundational and structural work such transactions implicate. He also advises on the establishment of on/offshore PE funds.
Among other transactions he successfully closed, Dr. El Borai was the legal advisor, in 2009, to 23 lending banks in connection with the then largest loan syndication to ever take place in Egypt with an aggregate value surpassing USD 1 billion.
In 2010, Dr. El Borai, this time in his capacity as legal counsel to the borrower, successfully closed on a landmark syndicated facility extended by 28 commercial banks to his client for a total loan amount of EGP 7.2 billion (USD 1.3 billion). In 2012, he was the advisor to a syndicate of lenders for a total loan amount of EGP 8.4 billion (USD 1.25 billion) in connection with the financing of a large petrochemical project.
Dr. El Borai has held such posts as: former assistant lecturer at the University of London, Queen Mary University and Westfield college; former assistant lecturer at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas; lecturer for the ethics, conflict of interests and legal writing courses with the American Bar Association; Continued Legal Education Program (CLE); lecturer in Labour Law with the American University in Cairo – Management Centre; and lecturer in contract and commercial law in the MBA Programme of the Ecole Supérieure Libre des Sciences Commerciales Appliquées (ESLSCA).
Dr. El Borai is a former legal consultant to the World Bank’s financial sector in Washington D.C. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of London in Cross-Border Corporate Insolvency, LL.M. from the University of Warwick (UK), LL.M. from Southern Methodist University (TX), LL.B. from Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and an LL.B. from the University of Cairo.
If you have a requirement in this area, please get in touch with Ramy directly or with the International Referral head office for an introduction.