Biography
Lobna Khater joined Edita in January 2022 to head the newly formed Legal, Compliance & Governmental Affairs Sector in response to the growth & expansion of Edita group of companies.
Mrs. Khater has extensive experience with a career spanning more than 20 years in diversified legal and compliance experience both locally and internationally as she assumed the role of legal counsel on several cross-border commercial and corporate transactions for several Fortune 500 companies. Prior to joining Edita, Mrs. Khater was the former ExxonMobil Egypt Legal Manager with oversight to other countries in the region both as Legal and Compliance Senior Counsel and acted as the Egyptian legal advisor for ExxonMobil in the Egyptian Upstream activities. Prior to moving as an Inhouse counsel, Mrs. Khater worked in private practice in several top tier Egyptian Law Firms such as Zulficar & Partners and Sarwat A. Shahid Law Firm with focus on M&A’s and Restructuring. Work included, among many other things, leading the Energy & Infrastructure team for an electricity production multinational company in its proposed listing on the Malaysian Stock Exchange, representing a major oil & gas company in its potential acquisition of a 100% stake of two multinational oil and gas companies in Egypt, representing a major Egyptian automotive group of companies in it is restructuring process of their entire group in Egypt, Europe and Africa, represented a major multinational pharmaceutical company in its acquisition of the business of a multinational company in Egypt, representing a fortune 500 company specialized in the production of glaze in its acquisition of an Egyptian ceramic and glaze company, representing a major FMCG multinational company along with an Egyptian partner in acquiring the chilled dairy products of a multinational company in Egypt.
She holds a dual undergraduate degree, a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science – International Law, American University in Cairo, as well as an LLB from Faculty of Law, Cairo University. She also holds a Master’s degree LL.M in International & Comparative Law and member of the Egyptian Lawyers Syndicate.