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 law - yers specialises in advising multinationals, corpora - tions, financial institutions and governmental entities on all 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 ac - tive in the ICC, ICSID, Cairo Regional Centre for Inter - national Commercial Arbitration, Dubai International Arbitration Centre, Abu Dhabi Commercial and Con - ciliation Centre, Court of Arbitration for Sport, and LCIA – as well as local courts – representing clients in high-value disputes in a variety of sectors, including automotive, construction, heavy industry, manufac - turing, oil and gas, pharmaceutical, real estate, tel - ecommunications, 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 University and
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
Cairo University. 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 in Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, ICC, LCIA, 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 the Egyptian, Qatari, UAE and Sudanese law jurisdictions. Ahmed also advises clients on the enforcement and nullification procedures of domestic and foreign arbitral awards. He has also served as a member of Egypt’s Conseil d’Etat.
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