Yehia Zakaria — Mid-Level Associate, Mazghouny & Co
Mid-Level Associate
Yehia Zakaria

Yehia
Zakaria

Yehia Zakaria is a Mid-Level Associate at Mazghouny & Co advising on corporate transactional matters and project financings. His practice covers loan agreement review and negotiation, conditions precedent coordination, and the full documentation cycle on energy and infrastructure financing mandates. He completed a seven-month internship with Agence Française de Développement (AFD) in Paris, where he gained exposure to development finance structuring on French-speaking African and Middle Eastern markets.

Yehia has contributed to several of the firm's landmark financing transactions, including Africa's first green project bond refinancing and Egypt's first solar project with battery energy storage. His trilingual capability and specialist academic background in energy and environment law position him as a key resource on the firm's cross-border energy and finance mandates.

Practice Areas
Corporate Transactions Financing Energy & Power Project Finance
Selected Matters
Finance documentation on USD 334.5 million green project bond refinancing — Africa's first green bonds. Benban solar portfolio, 19-year tenor. Climate Bond certified.
Advisory on USD 479.1 million project financing for Scatec / Obelisk Solar — 1 GW solar and 200 MWh battery storage (EBRD, AfDB, BII).
Advisory on USD 100 million ADFD re-lending facility to the National Bank of Egypt (ADEX participation).
Advisory on USD 25 million Voltalia photovoltaic project financing facility.
Education
Double LL.B., Cairo University and Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne (IDAI)
Maîtrise in International and European Business Law, Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2020
Master's in Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Law, Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2021
Languages
Arabic English French

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