Baker McKenzie, Cairo

Banking, Finance and Projects

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.

Arabic, English, French, Spanish

Egyptian Bar Association

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)