Career
Lamyaa Gadelhak is the Chair of the Global Project Finance Group based in the Cairo office of Baker McKenzie (Helmy, Hamza & Partners) where she also co-heads the Banking & Projects Practice Group. She has 20 years of experience working on the project development and finance in various industries including energy, infrastructure, oil & gas, manufacturing and climate change, as well as, covers a wide spectrum of banking and finance products delivering award winning transactions and projects. Lamyaa currently also serves as a member of the Firm's Africa Steering Committee.
Lamyaa's exceptional accomplishments have garnered her widespread acclaim and accolades in the legal industry. This includes being recognized as a "Market Leader" and "Leading Individual" and being ranked in Band 1 in publications such as IFLR, The Legal 500 and Chambers Global. Additionally, she was named "Egypt Lawyer of the Year" in The Legal 500 MENA Awards 2025 and was shortlisted for last year's IFLR Middle East Awards in the esteemed category of "Women Dealmaker Hall of Fame" and "LexisNexis Women in Law Award for Banking and Finance in 2024." Lamyaa received a bachelor's degree in 2004 from Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and another from the Cairo University's Faculty of Law. She then received her master's in international and European business law in 2007 from Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. She was admitted to the Egyptian Bar Association in 2005.
