GLA & Company

Banking & Finance

Partner and Regional Head of Banking & Finance

Ashraf Hendi has recently joined GLA & Co as a Partner and Head of Banking and Finance. He brings with him a wealth of experience from his previous roles at several regional and multinational law firms, including Matouk Bassiouny, Al Tamimi & Company (Kuwait), Zaki Hashem & Partners, and Dentons. He also worked for a significant period at HSBC Egypt as an in-house legal counsel. He is specialized in banking and finance transactions, yet he also assisted clients on several corporate secretarial works, and mergers and acquisitions.

Ashraf represented clients in multiple syndicated and bilateral facilities, project finance and equity finance transactions. His expertise brings together legal and practical know-how gained from representing major financial institutions and corporations across a wide variety of sectors. He has worked on banking and financing transactions in the GCC market and has represented financial institutions in multi-jurisdictional debt finance transactions and Islamic financing. He has also worked on asset-backed financings and debt capital market transactions, including securitization issuances.

Ashraf has been repeatedly ranked as a “Rising Star Partner” by IFLR1000 and “Next Generation Partner” in Banking & Finance by Legal 500 EMEA throughout the recent years. He holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in International and Comparative Law from Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law and is admitted to the Egyptian Bar Association.

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