Ahmed Shehata

Ahmed Shehata is a senior associate at Helmy, Hamza & Partners, Baker McKenzie Cairo. He practices in banking, finance and projects, with a special focus on various forms of debt finance, loan facilities and debt capital markets. He has experience in drafting facility agreements, security documents and other finance and project development documents (including offtake and grid arrangements). Ahmed has advises lenders, commercial banks, multilateral financial institutions and export credit agencies, as well as developers and sponsors, during all stages of the structuring, development and financing of major projects. He obtained a B.A in Law with honors from Cairo University's Faculty of Law in 2016. He later went on to achieve a Master 1 in International and European Business Law from Universite Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne) in 2015 and Professional Master 2 in Banking and Financial Law from the same university in 2017. Ahmed was admitted to the Egyptian Bar Association in 2016.

• Acted as a legal counsel to the Arab Republic of Egypt, acting through the Ministry of Finance, on a landmark USD 3 billion syndicated financing transaction. This deal won Islamic Syndication Deal of the Year Award 2022 from Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East Awards. Baker McKenzie was recently awarded “Banking & Finance Team of the Year” at the Middle East Legal Awards 2022, off the back of our work on the Egypt MoF sustainable financing.
• Acted as English, Egyptian and UAE legal counsel to the lenders in relation to the financing of Canal Sugar’s project for the development of a large-scale agricultural farm (approximately 188,000 acres) in Minya, Egypt. This deal is awarded Best Structured Finance Deal in North Africa at the EMEA Finance Achievement Awards 2021.
• Acted as legal counsel to the Egyptian Government, acting through the Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (EETC), the New and Renewable Energy Authority (NREA) as well as the Ministry of Finance of Egypt, on a landmark power purchase agreement signed with Saudi power and renewable energy company, ACWA Power. The agreement is in relation to establishing a solar power plant using photovoltaic cells with a BOO system with a capacity of 200 MW in Kom Ombo, Aswan, with a total investment of about USD 80 million, with a 25-year power purchase agreement tenure and ACWA has reached financial closing for the same.
• Acted for AMEA Power in connection with the finance and development of a 500MW solar plant in Aswan and a 500MW wind farm in Gulf of Suez on BOT basis.

• Asset finance
• Banking
• Islamic finance
• PPP/PFI
• Project development
• Project finance
• Real estate finance
• Trade finance

• Agriculture
• Automotive
• Aviation
• Banking
• Construction and materials
• Consumer goods and services
• Energy
• Financial services
• Food and beverage
• Government and public policy
• Healthcare
• Industrials
• Insurance
• Media
• Mining
• Natural resources
• Oil and gas
• Pharma and life sciences
• Real estate
• Shipping
• Social infrastructure
• Tech and telecoms
• Tourism
• Transport
• Utilities

• Egyptian Bar Association (2016)

• University of Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne) (Professional Master 2, Banking and Financial Law) (2017)
• Cairo University (Egyptian Bachelor of Law, with honors - Ranked 9th) (2016)
• University of Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne) (Master 1, International and European Business Law) (2015)