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Yomna Hamza El-Shibawi
Senior Associate
Biography
Yomna is a Senior Associate in the Banking & Finance practice in Al Tamimi & Company’s Kuwait office.
Yomna is ranked among top practitioners in internationally renowned legal directories, including IFLR1000 and The Legal 500. In 2025, she was shortlisted a Banking & Finance Associate of the Year at the Legal 500 Middle East Awards.
Yomna is a qualified lawyer in civil law jurisdiction with more than twelve 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.
Other experience includes advising clients regularly on diverse legal queries spanning over different law sectors including Commercial Law, Banking Law, Capital Market Law, Civil Law, Commercial Law and Companies Law with excellent expertise in drafting and reviewing different types of commercial agreements.
Representing regularly lenders and companies in a variety of banking and finance transactions, she has served as a counsel on both the financier and borrower side of a number of Shari’a complaint transactions.
Her clients include regional, European and US banks, and corporate borrowers. Additionally, Yomna has 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 from the borrower’s perspective on several syndicated facilities involving multiple lenders, including but not limited to: a KD 1.5 billion facility between National Bank of Kuwait and Kuwait Finance House K.S.C.P.; a USD 600 million term loan facility between Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait, Mizuho Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Bank Corporation, and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited.
- Advised from the lender’s perspective on Euro term loan facility of up to EUR 50 million. Our role included reviewing the English law finance documents from a Kuwait law perspective.
- Advised from the perspective of a lender and investment agent on numerous multimillion murabaha facilities from a Kuwait law perspective.
- Advised from the perspective of a Muwakkil on numerous multimillion master wakala deed from a Kuwait law perspective.
- Acting as the legal counsel of Commercial Bank of Kuwait (as the issuer) in relation to the establishment of KD 100 million Tier II Bond programme and the issuance of two tranches thereunder.
- Acting as the legal counsel of Mizuho Bank, Ltd. (as the arranger) in relation to several Certificate of Deposit (CD) Programmes issued in Kuwait by Commercial Bank of Kuwait and Burgan Bank.
- Acting for Standard Chartered Bank (UAE) (as the arranger and coordinator) in relation to Warba’s Bank AT1 Sukuk Issuance of an amount of USD 250 million.
- Acting as the legal advisor in connection with the registration of several funds in Kuwait, including a Luxembourg domiciled Reserved Alternative Investment Fund, and the Lulwa KD Money Market Fund by Gulf Capital Investment Company (Invest GB).
Language(s)
- Arabic
- English
- Spanish
Education
- 2013 – Master of Law in International Commercial Comparative Law Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
- 2011 – LL.B. (license en droit) from Faculty of Law, English Section, Cairo University, Egypt
Admission
- 2011 – Egyptian Bar Association
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