Aceris Law’s Egypt Arbitration Lawyers Desk is a dedicated team of lawyers at Aceris Law, a specialised international arbitration law firm, which accompanies clients involved in arbitrations concerning Egypt, i.e., where Egyptian law applies, a contract is executed in Egypt, the dispute is brought by or against a party in Egypt, or the Egyptian State or an Egyptian State entity is involved.
Aceris Law’s Harvard, Oxford and Sorbonne trained lawyers are admitted to bars of Western Europe, Eastern Europe and North America and have significant prior experience dealing with commercial, construction and investment treaty arbitrations under the ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL, LCIA, SCC, SIAC, ICDR, VIAC and other arbitration rules, many of which have concerned Egypt and neighbouring States.
We maintain permanent access to offices in Cairo to meet and work with clients, although our home office is in Geneva, Switzerland, and we are always accessible to clients, regardless of their location, by videoconference. Our Egypt Arbitration Lawyers Desk also has access to Egyptian jurisprudence and doctrine, while speaking English, French and Arabic.
Our Egypt Arbitration Lawyers Desk maintains ties to the best domestic Egyptian lawyers, who are involved depending on the specific needs of a given arbitration. This ensures that our clients obtain the best arbitration legal representation while also maintaining cost-effectiveness for arbitrations involving Egypt.
We have significant prior experience with arbitrations involving Egypt, Arabic countries and North African countries. For example, Aceris Law’s Egypt Arbitration Lawyers Desk represented a client in an ICC construction arbitration regarding industrial plant in the Middle East, acted as counsel in an LCIA arbitration for a construction company from the Middle East against a Korean Company and represented the Respondent and Counterclaimant in an ICC arbitration against an opponent South Asian Contractor regarding a construction project in the region. We have also served in UNCITRAL arbitrations in the oil and gas industry in the Middle East and served in a variety of construction disputes regarding North African companies. We have also provided legal advice to an Egyptian company in an ad hoc arbitration under New York law against a US-based legal entity and legal advice to a foreign investor with a treaty claim against Egypt, inter alia.
By having a dedicated team for arbitrations concerning Egypt, Aceris Law ensures that the arbitrations involving Egypt are handled efficiently and cost-effectively, making the best use of our arbitration lawyers’ know-how as well as linguistic and cultural skills.
To learn more about Aceris’ Egypt Arbitration Lawyers Desk, please do not hesitate to contact us.