Helmy Hamza & Partners is a law firm in Egypt established in 1986. The firm is part of the Baker McKenzie network and has approximately 45 lawyers, including five partners and six counsels.

The firm has a strong practice across most practice areas recognised for Egypt, specifically banking & finance, equity capital markets, M&A and projects work.

In banking and finance the firm works on a mix of types of financing transactions, in equity capital markets the firm assists on both IPOs and secondary share offerings to clients, in M&A the firm focuses on acquisitions and investments and finally in projects the firm assists with both infrastructure and energy projects.

Testmonials

Bank lending: Borrower side

“The team are highly skilled professionals.  Highly dedicated with business mind set.”

“Professionalism and unending support.”

Banking and finance

“Always to the point, attentive, precise, noting market conditions and practices. Very responsive.”

Financial services regulatory

“Very attentive and experienced.”

“They are good at critical thinking.”

M&A

“The team is highly responsive, highly professional, and miles ahead of the competition on a competency scale. They understand exactly what we need before attaining it for us, thus limiting the wasted time back and forth.”

“The team is technically very capable. Partnership involvement is impressive, and the quality of the associates is high.”

“Deep knowledge of Egyptian Corporate Law, experience in banks M&A transaction, strong negotiations expertise.”

Project development

“Very knowledgeable lawyers with good connections within the government. Delivering good quality work. They are also very flexible and willing to go the extra mile.”

Project finance

“Experienced with similar work.”

Mohamed El Harmy

“Mohamed is very competent, always to the point in his advice and most importantly always available and always makes client feel they are the most important one. Mohamed has a very positive attitude, friendly, professional and has excellent market knowledge. He is always aware of market standards and practices. It is always a pleasure working with him.”

“Very responsive and flexible with good quality work.”

“Very professional. Extremely helpful. Highly skilled and dedicated.”

Ghada El Ehwany

“Knowledgeable, attentive.”

“Ghada is a great listener and has a remarkable ability to influence outcomes in a very amicable manner. She has great technical depth and an impressive negotiator.”

Ingy El Kady

“Ingy has impressive negotiation and drafting skills.”

Lamyaa Gadelhak

“Very good listening, understanding, providing clear response, very good communicator and negotiator.”

Mohamed Ghannam

“He is an amazing professional.  Very capable and has excellent ethics.”

Hani Nassef

“Great communication, knowledge of Egyptian Corporate and Banking Law, strong negotiations skills.”

Key clients

Key clients of the firm include African Development Bank, Arab African International Bank, Arab Banking Corporation, Banque Du Caire, Banque Misr, BLOM Bank SAL, Carbon Holdings, First Abu Dhabi Bank, International Finance Corporation, Marakez Al Sokhna for Real Estate Projects, and TMG for Real Estate and Tourism Company.