Shamila Ashiq Regional Senior Legal Counsel, MENA Global Trade & Receivables Finance, HSBC Shamila is the lead counsel in the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey for HSBC’s Global Trade and Receivables Finance business. She has extensive experience in a wide variety of banking and finance transactions, including structured trade finance, commodity finance, invoice discounting facilities, supply chain finance and borrowing base facilities. She has over 10 years’ experience in the region and prior to joining HSBC, she was a corporate lawyer at a US law firm practising both in London and Dubai.