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Article: Regional investment banking: the six most prominent investment bankers in the region.(The MEED List)(NBK Capital)(Beltone Financial)
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- MEED Middle East Economic Digest
- Article date:
- February 22, 2008
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Hassan Heikal
POSITION Co-chairman and CEO, EFG-Hermes
BIOGRAPHY Under Hassan Heikal's leadership, EFG-Hermas, the largest Egyptian investment bank by market capitalisation, has gained regional prominence. The bank has expanded out of its home base in Cairo and set up investment banking and brokerage businesses in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. In 1995, Heikal joined what was to become EFC-Hermes following the merger of Egyptian Financial Group and Hermes Financial a year later. Previously, he worked at Goldman Sachs. Since joining EFG, he has overseen several large telecommunications transactions, including advising Telecom Egypt on its bid for ...