Lamyaa Gadelhak

Biography Lamyaa Gadelhak is a partner at Helmy, Hamza & Partners, Baker McKenzie Cairo, where she co-heads the Banking & Projects Practice Group. The legal market recognize Lamyaa for her first-class talent in handling banking transactions and projects from inception to conclusion, with a high level of inquisitiveness and attention to details. Her winning attitude and impeccable integrity make a lasting impression on every client she meets. She is always keen to offer solutions that match or exceed the client's expectations in newness, meaningfulness, and relevancy. Lamyaa participated in many landmark first-in-kind and precedent-setting transactions and projects. She established a reputation as a go-to person for projects and new transactions requiring complex and sophisticated structuring exercises. Her outstanding multi-tasking abilities while maintaining a calm temper and flexible manner have inspired younger generations to follow in her footsteps.

Lamyaa advocated a new Africa strategy for the Cairo office to act as a gateway for Egyptian and Middle Eastern investments to other African jurisdictions capitalizing on our project's expertise and landed mandates for work involving Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, and Equatorial Guinea in the past couple of years. Additionally, she Spearheaded the Cairo office development of new areas of law, most notably climate change law, developing work in the area, and participated in various conferences and workshops to raise awareness on the potential for the same. She is a member of Baker Mckenzie's EMEA Banking & Finance Steering, the Global Project Finance Steering Committee, and the Africa Initiative Steering Committee.

She is consistently ranked by Chambers Global [Egypt] in Banking & Finance and Projects (for 13 consecutive years). This year 2022, Chambers Global ranked her in Band 1 in Banking & Finance and Projects & Energy. Furthermore, IFLR1000 Egypt consistently ranks Lamyaa as a "Highly Regarded Lawyer." In addition to Legal 500 EMEA as "Leading Individual" in 3 categories, Energy, Banking & Finance and Projects & Infrastructure.

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• Acted for Banque Misr and Arab African International Bank (AAIB) as lenders on a real estate financing to Al Alamia for Real Estate Investment. The two banks signed the loan documentation of EGP 4.16 billion on 29 June 2021 specifically for the development of Swan Lake Residences project which is one of Al Alamia integrated residential projects in New Cairo.
• Acted for Rawasy Urban Development S.A.E in connection with the acquisition and the acquisition finance of real estate assets in Talaat Moustafa Group’s (TMG) Madinaty compound for a purchase price of approximately EGP 9 billion. Additionally, Baker McKenzie Cairo supported Rawasy in entering into a long term Operation and Investment Agreement with TMG for the operation and investment of these assets on behalf of Rawasy.
• 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, in connection with 200 MW Kom Ombo solar PV project.
• 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. The financing was multi-sourced and involved both conventional (USD 1.5 billion) and Islamic Finance (USD 1.5 billion) tranches.
• Advised Hutchison Ports, a world's leading port network, on the development of its new commercial container terminal in Abu Qir, Egypt with the Egyptian Navy.

• Banking
• Project development
• Project finance
• Trade finance

• Banking
• Energy
• Natural resources
• Oil and gas
• Real estate

Admitted with the Egyptian Bar Association to practice in 2005

Member of the Institute for Energy Law of the Center for American and International Law.

• Cairo University Faculty of Law in 2004
• Maîtrise in Business Law from the University of Paris I – Panthéon Sorbonne
• Master of International and European Business Law Degrees (L.L.M) from the University of Paris I – Panthéon, Sorbonne, 2007.