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The Helmy, Hamza &amp; Partners (Baker McKenzie, Cairo) team was led by partners Mohamed Ghannam and Lamyaa Gadelhak, counsel Mostafa El Sakaa and Senior Associate Mohamed Elharmy. We were also recently recognized as \u201cBest Capital Markets Law Firm\u201d by IFN for our work on this landmark deal.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cCommodity Murabahah\/Tawarruq Deal of the Year\u201d for advising the Egyptian Government, acting through the Ministry of Finance, on the signing of a USD 2 billion syndicated financing transaction, which was the first sovereign debt that Egypt has raised from commercial lenders. Baker McKenzie\u2019s cross-border team was led by partners Mohamed Ghannam and Lamyaa Gadelhak, counsel Victoria Long and Senior Associate Mohamed Elharmy (all from Cairo) and partner Sandeep Puri (Dubai).<\/li>\n<li>\u201cDeal of the Year &#8211; Saudi Arabia\u201d for acting as legal counsel to the Ministry of Finance of The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on a landmark agreement signed with Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) in relation to a SAR 167.92 billion (USD 44.78 billion) mudaraba based perpetual subordinated instrument. This transaction is the world&#8217;s largest ever Islamic finance transaction. The deal was also a finalist for the \u201cOverall IFN Deal of the Year\u201d award.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cCorporate Finance Deal of the Year\u201d for the same transaction between Saudi Arabia\u2019s Ministry of Finance and the SEC and involving a SAR 167.92 billion (USD 44.78 billion) mudaraba based perpetual subordinated instrument. The team at Legal Advisors Abdulaziz Alajlan &amp; Partners in association with Baker &amp; McKenzie Limited was led by partners Ian Siddell and Nick Church and senior associate Delwar Hossain.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global law firm Baker McKenzie started the new year \u00a0winning four deal awards at the Islamic Finance News (IFN) Awards 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":320930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-development-partners"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Baker McKenzie wins four deal awards in Egypt, Saudi Arabia - egy-africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Global law firm Baker McKenzie started the new year \u00a0winning four deal awards at the Islamic Finance News (IFN) Awards 2020.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/2021\/02\/04\/baker-mckenzie-wins-four-deal-awards-in-egypt-saudi-arabia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Baker McKenzie wins four deal awards in Egypt, Saudi Arabia - 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