Mrs Ghada El Ehwany > Helmy, Hamza & Partners (member firm of Baker & McKenzie International) > Giza, Egypt > Lawyer Profile
Helmy, Hamza & Partners (member firm of Baker & McKenzie International) Offices
Emerald Business Center - Tower A
4th floor, Plot no. B2210
Smart Village, K28 Cairo-Alexandria Road, Giza, Egypt
Egypt
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Mrs Ghada El Ehwany
Work Department
Corporate, Commercial and M&A and Dispute Resolution.
Position
Ghada El Ehwany is a partner at Helmy, Hamza & Partners, Baker McKenzie Cairo, where she heads the Corporate and Commercial Practice Group.
Career
Ghada has over 20 years of experience in the Middle East, namely Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. She specializes in corporate, commercial, and labor matters with a notable focus on mergers and acquisitions, regulatory, insolvency, compliance, investigations, intellectual property, and dispute resolution matters. Ghada spearheads all Cairo office employment efforts, including advising on post-acquisition and restructuring employee transfers, employee benefits, profit-sharing schemes, dismissals, policies, and social insurance, and managing exits across diverse industries such as healthcare and life sciences, technology, media, and telecoms, consumer goods, and retail. IFLR1000 recognizes her as a “Rising Star Partner” in its 31st Edition. She was formerly a counsel in the UAE offices, having been based in Dubai since 2013, and has returned to the Cairo office, where she had worked for 14 years. She has also developed and delivered Continuing Legal Practice Development training courses accredited by the Dubai Legal Affairs Department on a wide range of UAE legal issues and legislative developments.
Memberships
Ghada was admitted to the Egyptian Bar Association in the year 2000.
Education
Ghada obtained a BA from Cairo University’s distinguished Faculty of Law in 2000. That comes in addition to her LLB Business Law from Universite Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne) in the same year.
Lawyer Rankings
Egypt > Intellectual property
Helmy, Hamza & Partners (member firm of Baker & McKenzie International) has a long-established reputation in the Egyptian market for representing leading multinationals in all aspects of the acquisition, protection, enforcement and exploitation of their IP rights. Leading the corporate and commercial group and heading the IP team is Ghada El Ehwany, who has a diverse span of sector-specific expertise, including automotive, financial services, consumer goods, technology and pharmaceuticals.
Egypt > Commercial, corporate and M&A
Helmy, Hamza & Partners (member firm of Baker & McKenzie International)’s corporate and commercial team is ‘one of the strongest in the Egyptian market’, and is active across a diverse range of key economic sectors including financial services, real estate, TMT, pharmaceuticals, construction and renewable energy. Managing partner Mohamed Ghannam
and the ‘superb’ Hani Nassef, who oversees the M&A practice, have a broad span of expertise, with public and private M&A, joint ventures, carve-outs and divestitures, and commercial contracts considered key areas of strength. Ghada El Ehwany heads the corporate and commercial offering and has a particular prowess in the healthcare and TMT sectors.
Egypt > Employment
Helmy, Hamza & Partners (member firm of Baker & McKenzie International)‘ employment offering is a leading advisor on a diverse spectrum of employment-related matters arising out of corporate transactions and operations in the Gulf. Corporate and commercial specialist Ghada El Ehwany leads the team and oversees a practice noted for its excellent transactional, advisory and litigation capabilities. She is substantially supported by Heba Samy, who was promoted to senior associate in July 2023. Counsel Saber Soliman departed the firm in June 2023.
Egypt > TMT
Helmy, Hamza & Partners (member firm of Baker & McKenzie International)‘s team leverages the strength of the firm’s extensive global network to advise on a broad range of TMT matters in the Egyptian market. Key areas of instruction include e-commerce, digital media, data privacy and fintech matters. Ghada El Ehwany heads up the practice, and is well versed in handling corporate and M&A work in the TMT space.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution: litigation
- Employment
- Energy
- Projects and infrastructure