Mohamed El Harmy

Mohamed Elharmy is a partner at Helmy, Hamza & Partners, Baker McKenzie Cairo. He has been practicing law since 2011, with a particular focus on banking, project finance, oil and gas, renewable energy and projects. Mohamed advises commercial lenders, ECAs, sponsors and borrowers. He is primarily involved in cross-border and local syndicated project finance, real estate finance, acquisition finance and asset finance. He has been ranked as a "Highly Regarded Lawyer" by IFLR1000 in its 30th, 31st and 32nd editions and a "Rising Star" by Legal 500 EMEA in 2014. Mohamed received his licence en droit from Cairo University in 2011, in addition to his master's degree in law from Cairo University in 2013 and the University of Aberdeen in 2016.

• Acted for Arab Company for Projects and Urban Developments S.A.E., a subsidiary of Talaat Moustafa Group Holding, on the issuance of a sukuk program with a value of EGP 2 billion with final maturity at the end of 2024.
• Acted as legal counsel to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in connection with their two-year USD 25 million working capital loan to Orascom Construction Company S.A.E (OC), a leading global engineering and construction contractor.
• Represented ACWA Power in connection with three solar PV power plant projects under the second round of the feed-in tariff program. The three projects have a total capacity of 165.5 MW at a total investment value of USD 190 million.
• Acting as an Egyptian counsel in connection with extending an aircraft financing to Egyptair, the Egyptian national aircraft operator of USD 380 million to finance the acquisition cost of up to 12 Airbus A220-300 aircraft under a financial lease structure.  
• Acting for Saudi Closed Joint Stock Company in relation to extending a sharia compliant murabaha and mudaraba financing to a leading Saudi real estate company Al Arabia for Real Estate Development Company ARECO S.A.E., funded by issuance of sukuk placed in Saudi Arabia under USD 1.3 billion sukuk program, with a first issue of USD 150 million. 
• Acted for Tanmeyah Micro Enterprise Services, on an issuance of EGP 3 billion securitization bond in a program of several tranches. The Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA) has approved the issuance of the first tranche on 21 May 2020, at a value of EGP 545 million of a 12-month maturity

• Banking
• Energy 
• Project development
• Project finance

• Banking
• Energy
• Financial 
• services

• Cairo University (License en droit) (2011)  
• Cairo University (LL.M.) (2013)
• Cairo University (License en droit) (2011)