Ghada El Ehwany Bio

Ghada El Ehwany is a partner at Helmy, Hamza & Partners, Baker McKenzie Cairo, where she heads the Corporate and Commercial Practice Group. She has accumulated over 20 years' experience in the Middle East, namely Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. She was formerly a counsel in the UAE offices having been based in Dubai since 2013, and has returned to Cairo office, where she had previously 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 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. Ghada was admitted to the Egyptian Bar Association in the year 2000. Ghada practices in corporate, commercial and labor matters with a specific focus on mergers and acquisitions, healthcare regulatory, insolvency, compliance, TMT, compliance, investigations and dispute resolution matters. She develops and delivers Continuing Legal Practice Development training courses accredited by the Dubai Legal Affairs Department on a wide range of UAE legal issues and legislative developments.