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Sustainable Horizons: The Saudi Arabian Vision
We are excited to share the latest edition of the Law Update, beautifully and appropriately titled “Sustainable Horizons: The Saudi Arabian Vision.” Giving special honor to the Kingdom’s 2030 vision, this update focuses on a collection of both informative and inspiring articles.
For those in construction, you can learn about how the tendering environment impacts risk-pricing for contractors, the updates on the legal framework of the construction industry and how contractors can protect themselves against financial difficulties.
There is good news too from the kingdom’s banking sector, from which the practice of “Open Banking” is being pushed for! But what is open banking? We’re answering that too.
Also . . . Are there any women trail blazers in Saudi Arabia you can name? We’ll help you with that. We cover how the Middle East has been making strides in empowering women in the entrepreneurial space,most notably in STEM fields.
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Yomna Hamza El-Shibawi
Associate
Biography
Yomna is an Associate in the Banking & Finance and Corporate Commercial practices in Al Tamimi & Company’s Kuwait office.
Yomna is a qualified lawyer in civil law jurisdiction with more than 9 years of work experience in top tier law firms in the Middle East with extensive experience in complex M&A, Capital Market transactions and Commercial Matters.
Yomna represents regularly both lenders and companies in a variety of banking and finance transactions. Her clients include regional, European and US banks, and corporate borrowers. She has also served as a counsel on both the financier and borrower side of a number of Shari’a complaint transactions.
Yomna’s experience includes advising the clients regularly on diverse legal queries spanning over different law sectors including Commercial Law, Banking Law, Capital Market Law, Civil Law and Companies Law with excellent expertise in drafting and reviewing different types of commercial agreements.
Yomna worked and participated in executing many M&A transactions that included conducting legal due diligence and legal research in respect of different business sectors such as healthcare, education, food and beverage, software applications and heavy industries (e.g. petrochemicals and steel industries).
Recent Experience
- Advised a Buyer on the acquisition of assets in Egypt with an aggregate market value of USD 800 million.
- Advised a Buyer on the acquisition of an educational group in Egypt with an aggregate value of USD 100 million.
- Advised a Buyer on the acquisition of a Food and Beverage company in Egypt.
- Advised a Buyer on the acquisition of a majority stake in a pharmaceutical company in Egypt.
Language(s)
- Arabic
- English
- Spanish
Education
2013 – Master Degree in International Commercial Comparative Law, IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Indiana
2011 – LL.B. (license en droit) from Faculty of Law, English Section, Cairo University, Egypt
Admission
2011 – Admitted at Egyptian Bar Association
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