EGYPT Law and Practice Contributed by: Amr A. Abbas, Ahmed Abdel Hakeem, Khaled Abou El Wafa and Adham Ahmed Saied, Matouk Bassiouny & Hennawy
Matouk Bassiouny & Hennawy is a leading, full- service law firm with offices in Algiers, Cairo, Dubai, and Khartoum, as well as a country desk covering the firm’s Libya practice. A team of more than 200 lawyers specialises in advising multinationals, corporations, financial institutions and government entities on all the legal aspects of investing and doing business in North Africa and the Middle East. Trained locally and internationally in civil and common law systems, the firm’s lawyers are fully conversant in Arabic, English and French. The dispute resolution group consists of
nine partners and more than 50 fee earners, and is active in the ICC, ICSID, Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, Dubai Inter - national Arbitration Centre, Abu Dhabi International Arbitration Centre, the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and the LCIA – as well as local courts – representing clients in high-value disputes in a variety of sectors, including automotive, construction, heavy industry, manufacturing, oil and gas, pharmaceutical, real es - tate, telecommunications, and tourism.
Authors
Amr A. Abbas heads Matouk Bassiouny & Hennawy’s arbitration and competition groups. He also teaches at Cairo University and on the Law and Economics LLM programme between Hamburg and Cairo
Ahmed Abdel Hakeem is a partner in Matouk Bassiouny & Hennawy’s arbitration team. Ahmed is a full-time arbitration practitioner with more than a decade of arbitration experience in Egypt, having previously practised
Universities. Amr’s practice focuses on commercial arbitration, investment arbitration, competition and international trade disputes. He has acted as a chairman, sole arbitrator and co-arbitrator, and legal expert in investment and commercial arbitration. Prior to joining Matouk Bassiouny & Hennawy, Amr worked with White & Case LLP and the World Bank in Washington, DC, and Egyptian law firms in Cairo. He currently represents clients at the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, the ICC and LCIA, and in ad hoc and ICSID arbitrations.
international arbitration at the Shalakany Law Office. He has experience in ICSID, ICC, Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, UNCITRAL and Egyptian ad hoc arbitrations dealing with major investment, construction, management agreements, share purchase agreements, maritime, and oil and gas disputes in Egypt, Qatar, the UAE and Sudan. Ahmed also advises clients on enforcement and nullification procedures of domestic and foreign arbitral awards. He has also served as a member of Egypt’s Conseil d’Etat.
Khaled Abou El Wafa is a senior associate in Matouk Bassiouny & Hennawy’s arbitration team. Khaled handles international and domestic arbitration cases under various rules – including ICC, Cairo Regional
Adham Ahmed Saied is a junior associate at Matouk Bassiouny & Hennawy. Before joining the firm’s arbitration and competition practice, Adham completed various internships at top-tier law firms and institutions,
Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, Dubai International Financial Centre, London Court of International Arbitration, and UNCITRAL rules – in relation to disputes involving oil and gas agreements, M&A, share purchase agreements, pharmaceuticals, banking, finance, maritime, construction, distribution, telecommunications, international investment, private equity, hotel management, and competition law. Khaled obtained his LLB with distinction from Cairo University and his LLM from King’s College London.
gaining extensive experience across arbitration, competition law, and corporate practices. During his time as a junior associate at Matouk Bassiouny & Hennawy, Adham has worked on several arbitration matters as well as competition law investigations. He graduated from the Faculty of Law, English Section, Cairo University with an “Excellent with Honours” (top 3% in his class).
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