Omar Morsy is an associate in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Markets practices.

He is a native Arabic and Spanish speaker and focuses on a range of corporate transactions (including cross-border public and private M&A, private equity, joint ventures and equity capital markets).

Oil & Gas

• Fertiglobe on its initial public offering and listing on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX), the first ever IPO of an ADGM company on ADX
• ADNOC and ADNOC Drilling on the initial public offering and listing of ADNOC Drilling on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX), the largest-ever ADX listing
• Mubadala Petroleum on its $934 million investment (comprising a 10% stake) in the Egyptian offshore Shorouk concession, involving the Zohr gas field, from Italian energy company Eni S.p.A
• ADNOC Distribution on its initial public offering and Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange listing, one of the first listings to be done under the Emirates Securities & Commodities Authority’s new listing regulations
• ADNOC on its grant of a 10% interest in the Lower Zakum field for 40 years, in exchange for a participation fee of $600 million
• ADNOC on its grant of a 10% interest in Abu Dhabi’s ADCO onshore oil concession (one of the world’s largest onshore concessions) to BP plc worth $2.2 billion

M&A and Private Equity

• A UAE-based sovereign-owned entity on the acquisition of a leading Middle East pharmaceuticals business
• ADNOC on a new strategic partnership with OCI N.V. to create the largest export-focused nitrogen fertilizer platform globally and the largest producer in the MENA region
• ADNOC on a new strategic partnership with OCI N.V. to create the largest export-focused nitrogen fertilizer platform globally and the largest producer in the MENA region
• Mubadala Development Company PJSC, on its sale of the entire share capital of Eight Star Properties LLC, a UAE limited liability company and holder of a 24% stake in Al Maqsed Development Company PJSC, to Nonghyup Bank, a Korean company, in its capacity as trustree for and on behalf of the KIAMCO Abu Dhabi Campus Special Asset Private Investment Trust II, for $128,000,000
• Mubadala Investment Company on a $107 million investment (comprising a 40% stake) in Andromeda Group (a Mediterranean aquaculture group of companies) controlled by AMERRA Capital Management LLC
• EFG-Hermes on a $56 million joint venture with UAE-based GEMS Education to acquire, operate and invest in K-12 schools in EgyptGB Finance and GAIA Lux S.a.r.l on the EGP 750 million sale of a one-third stake in MNT Investments B.V. to ADP II Holding 9 S.a.r.l.
• EFG Hermes UAE Limited (EFG Hermes), a wholly owned subsidiary of EFG Hermes Holding S.A.E, on its agreements to acquire a 50 percent stake in Frontier Investment Management
• BIC International Co. in its acquisition of HACO Industries Ltd.'s stationery, lighters and shavers business in the Republic of Kenya
• Abu Dhabi National Oil Company for Distribution PJSC on its strategic joint venture with Urban Foods LLC
• Kuwait Food Company (Americana) (S.A.K.) on its acquisition of Bifco Foods LLC
• Gulf Capital on its acquisition of a Gulf-based auction business
• GC Equity Partners Fund III L.P. on its $87.2 million acquisition of 43% of the entire issued share capital of Zabeel Capital Ltd from Al Ain Capital Investments LLC

Power and Renewables

• Masdar on its acquisition of a 49 percent stake in Krnovo Green Energy wind farm
• Beaufort Investments S.À R.L., an investment vehicle owned by the EFG Hermes Private Equity division, on its sale of its entire stake in Vortex Energy Investments S.À R.L. and Vortex II Holdings S.À R.L. to IIF International Beta Renewables Midco S.À R.L., an investment vehicle owned by JP Morgan’s infrastructure Investments Fund, covering c.1 GW of operational capacity in the European wind power sector
• Neptune Utilities & Energy Investment LLC, a subsidiary of Mubadala Infrastructure Partners Limited, on its sale of its entire stake in STP Infrastructure Holdings Limited, to AWS Holdings IV, a subsidiary of Almar Water Servicios España S.L.

Healthcare

• NMC Healthcare on the formation of the joint venture between NMC and The General Organization for Social Insurance of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the healthcare sector of the Kingdom
• Selling shareholders on the sale of a 21 percent stake in the share capital of International Diagnostics Holdings (the largest private sector healthcare diagnostics service provider in Egypt) to Actis (a global pan-emerging market private equity firm)
• Valeant Pharmaceuticals on the acquisition of Amoun Pharmaceutical S.A.E.