Baker McKenzie LLP

Corporate, Commercial and M&A and Dispute Resolution.

Ghada El Ehwany is a partner at Helmy, Hamza & Partners, Baker McKenzie Cairo, where she heads the Corporate and Commercial Practice Group.

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.

Ghada was admitted to the Egyptian Bar Association in the year 2000.

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.