MIDEAST LAW - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Consulting Group, Cairo, VP Head of Business Development Division and Projects Manager
Education
Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), Law Studies, Faculty of Law, Ain Shams University, Cairo, 2004 - 2008
Ph.D. Civil Engineering, FIDIC Construction Contracts, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, 2000 - 2004
Master of Science (MSc), Civil Engineering - Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University "Structural Analysis of Offshore Pipelines", 1991 - 1997
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Civil Engineering - Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University "Structure Division - Steel Structures Project", 1985 - 1990
Master of Science (MSc), Environmental Sciences, University of Vienna, 2015 - 2017
Memberships
MCIArb. - Member in the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), London England
MCIArb. - Member in the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), Cairo Branch
Member in Egyptian Engineers Syndicate
Member in the Contracts Committee assigned by the Ministerial Decree for the preparation of the Egyptian Code of Project Management (2008)
Languages
Arabic and English
Job Titles:
- Attorney at Law ( Saudi Arabia )
Cyrille Naffah is a seasoned commercial and corporate lawyer with over 25 years of experience having advised several Fortune 500 companies doing business in both Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.
Cyrille Naffah has focused his practice on franchising, distribution, commercial agencies, TMT, company formation and restructuring, M&A and other areas of the law.
His telecoms work, includes, but is in no way limited, to:
advising a Saudi consortium engaged in the bidding for the second mobile license in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and one of the four data licenses, reviewing and negotiating the contracts between the different stakeholders;
Preparing the private placement memorandum for the floating of a South African telecoms company in its attempt to sell its mobile towers business (a deal valued $ 300,000,000) and negotiating the associated agreements between the various stakeholders;
Advised a Saudi conglomerate based out of Jeddah on all of its value-added and IT services agreements with the Saudi mobile operator STC;
Prepared a private placement memorandum for a global WIFI hotspot operation and drafted and negotiated the associated service agreements.
Cyrille Naffah has practiced law both in private practice and as in-house counsel in some of the finest global and regional law firms and multinational corporations.
Education
DEUG Droit (Faculté de droit de Montpellier)
Masters in Law (LL.M.), Institut Supérieur de la Sagesse pour l'Enseignement du Droit (ISSED)
Languages
Cyrille is fluent in Arabic, English and French.
Job Titles:
- Civil Engineer
- Attorney at Law ( Egypt )
Asaad Saad is a lawyer and a civil engineer. He is specialized in FIDIC contracts and other construction contracts and hasworked as an Owner, Consultant and Contractor. Asaad has participated in all project phases starting from feasibility and market studies up to putting into operation as well as during operation.
Job Titles:
- Managing Partner
- Abogado ( Seville )
Job Titles:
- Founding Partner
- Managing Partner / Middle East & East Africa
Christian Ule is founding partner of the firm and based in the Cairo and Frankfurt offices. He manages the offices in the "Mashreq" states. He represents and advises a broad client base of national and multinational companies on various aspects of business in the MENA region with a concentration on:
Christian Ule started his career as a lawyer in 1991 in Egypt and Germany, working in local, regional and international law firms in Frankfurt before he moved on to open his boutique law firm in Dubai in 2004 and finally settled in Cairo in 2016. Stations of his career are:
Job Titles:
- Attorney at Law ( Egypt )
With 20 of dispute resolution-focused experience, Hatem has served as a sole arbitrator, a party appointed arbitrator and counsel in many local and international commercial arbitrations under a variety of arbitration rules, including ICC, ICSID, CRCICA and UNCITRAL. Hatem is regularly instructed on significant commercial disputes arising in virtually every industry sector including: telecommunications, insurance, defence, projects, construction and engineering, energy and natural resources, commodities, oil and gas, chemicals, banking and financial services, transportation, international trade, manufacturing, leisure, environmental, pharmaceuticals, life sciences and insurance. This is in addition to disputes arising from shareholder and joint venture agreements. Hatem combines this deep sector knowledge with significant international arbitration and dispute resolution skills.
Job Titles:
- Attorney at Law ( Tunisia )
Hazem Abid has been working as a lawyer in Tunisia since 2002. In 2014, he founded the law firm Justitia Avocatie & Conseil together with other colleagues. He mainly intervenes in international and national commercial law matters and is also active in general civil law, family law and public law. In addition, as a certified mediator, he advises companies on out-of-court conflict resolution. Thanks to his German language skills and experience as an investment advisor of several German companies, Hazem Abid is particularly well connected in German-speaking countries.
Hazem Abid was admitted to the Tunisian Bar in 2002.
Education
Hazem Abid studied law at the Université des Sciences Juridiques & Politiques de Tunis from 1995 to 2002. After his admission to the bar, he took part in various further training courses, for example in the areas of international law in transport & logistics and international arbitration. Due to his profound knowledge of German and regular stays in Germany, Hazem Abid also worked for several years as an investment advisor for several German companies in parallel to his legal practice. Since 2020, Hazem Abid is a trained mediator of the Institut Catholique de Paris.
Languages
Hazem Abid speaks Arabic and French as his mother tongue and is business fluent in German and English.
Job Titles:
- Attorney at Law ( Egypt )
Imad is a Lebanese qualified lawyer and a registered legal consultant in Dubai with over 12 years of experience in the UAE and the GCC. Imad focuses his practice on litigation and court procedures working closely with clients and in-house counsel. He is experienced in complex and cross border litigation related to banking, insurance, construction, real estate and retails sectors. Whilst having robust experience in litigation, Imad adopts an entrepreneurial approach to settling disputes and has developed an admired skill for negotiating out-of-court settlements that save money and time for our clients. Owing to his long experience in the UAE, Imad has seen it all; the booming of the UAE, the crisis and the resurge. This makes him familiar with all sorts of disputes and grants him insights on the business relations and connections behind various business sectors in Dubai specifically and the UAE in general.
Imad's enjoys wide connections with the upper echelons of the UAE authorities, which he employs on many occasions for the benefit of clients seeking reputable sponsors or partnerships with Emirati nationals. He is fluent in Arabic, English and French and has graduated form Sagesse University in Beirut with bachelors in law in 1998.
Imad has acted for regional and international clients in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Italy, France and other African states like Nigeria and the Sudan. He assisted in negotiating and concluding of many cross-border transactions related to mega projects such as infrastructure, railways, water and electricity, gold and diamond mining, oil and gas field services and others. Imad has recently handled setting up of a framework agreement for an Emirati-South American joint venture for importing food products and large-scale distribution in the region.
Job Titles:
- Attorney at Law ( Egypt ) Legal Counsel ( Libya )
- Member of the Egyptian Association Bar As Well As of the Arab Lawyers Union
Mr. Elmasry mainly focuses on Oil and Gas, Banking and Finance, Insurance Law, M&A, Investment Law, Capital Market and General Business Law matters in Libya.
He is acting as a counsel to national and multinational companies and financial institutions on a broad range of transactions, including joint ventures, restructurings, projects finance, M&A, tenders, IPOs, facilities guarantees and securitization, insurance disputes. Further, Mr. Elmasry advises clients with respect to compliance matters and litigation representations.
Islam is a member of the Egyptian Association Bar as well as of the Arab Lawyers Union.
Career Highlights [Recent Transactional involvements]
Mr. Elmasry represented:
a leading international reinsurer co. in relation to the 235 million insurance claim brought by a major transport company against the insurer.
an international corporate and investment bank, in connection with the financing arrangement of $174 million being made available to a group of Oil and Gas companies, by rendering legal advices, legal opinions and reviewing the Facility Agreement and other related corporate documents in the project finance;
a governmental consultancy institution in the 1.7 billion international airport construction project assigned to a multinational construction consortium
An international financial institutions on the securitization arrangement under the facilities of $38 million granted to an IOC.
a multinational Insurance and Reinsurance consortium in the $28m claim raised for the fire incident took place at a crude storage tank the site of Libya's largest oil refinery and a petroleum port.
a major U.S Energy Group, the due diligence process in an international acquisition transaction of Oil and Gas companies in the MEA.
a global leader in power and automation technologies; preparing, drafting and perfecting the Internal and Disciplinary regulations (Policy), drafting employment contracts, advices regarding corporate issues.
Leading Construction Company in Qatar, rendering legal assistance regarding Labour, corporate and business issues.
a leading telecom solutions provider based in China, drafting, preparing and perfecting company's Internal Terms and Conditions and Penalties regulations, rendering legal advices regarding labour and corporate issues.
a leading mobile phone supplier corporation, providing primary legal assistance for the Labour sector by rendering relevant advices and drafting Employment contracts.
an international engineering & construction company, providing legal assistance by rendering Legal opinions in respect of disputes raised during the execution of a contract with the Libyan Government.
a global financial institution based in Bahrain regarding a major Islamic finance project, providing legal advices, drafting, perfecting and executing security document in respect of facilities granted to a Cyprus company through a Master Murabaha Agreement.
a leading international airways company providing advices regarding the labour Laws and relevant issues (preparation of the Internal and penalties regulations).
a leading Construction company based in India, providing legal advices regarding its operations and executions in Libya.
a multinational company leads in networking technologies, providing advices regarding the corporate governance and relevant regulations.
a global investment banking firm on its sale of institutional business assets to a banking group operating in the Stock Exchange Market.
Job Titles:
- Attorney at Law ( Egypt )
Job Titles:
- Associated Partner, Cairo, since 2016
- Head of Tax Group, Cairo
- of Counsel, Cairo
- Partner, Cairo
- Senior Associate, Cairo, since 2016
Education
Bachelor of Commerce, Ain Shams University, Cairo
Languages
Arabic
Education
LL.B., Cairo University, 2000
Languages
Arabic
Education
LL.B. Ain Shams University, 2016
LL.M. Ain Shams University, 2018
Languages
Arabic and English
Job Titles:
- Egypt - Partner, since 2011
Job Titles:
- Attorney at Law ( Egypt )
Job Titles:
- Chartered Public Accountant ( Morocco )
Mr. Réda BAGHDADI is partner within one of the top chartered accountant offices in Morocco. Throughout his career of over 14 years, he has handled various and complex international tax, accounting and social matters. He's been involved in transactional context such as contractual audits, due diligence, transfer, merger and acquisition etc.
Réda is, moreover, experienced and versed in dealing with public authorities on all levels.
Education
Réda is a tax and accounting advisor graduated from France.
He is also been graduated from the business school of Paris
He has taken an MBA Program within Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Languages
He is fluent in French, English and Arabic.
Samer gained international and in-house experience during his work with an international tribunal in The Hague - Netherlands, and the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva. He provides transactional and corporate advice to clients in the construction, management, retail, cosmetics, real estate and media industry.
He benefits of being fully bilingual in English and Arabic which allows him to handle cases before the UAE Arabic Courts. Samer has represented clients in disputes before the DIFC Courts, and arbitrations centers of the ICC, DIFC-LCIA, DIAC and ADCCAC.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Attorney at Law
- Associate / West Africa
Based on relevant international experience at the interface between business, law and politics, in particular in France, North and West Africa, Sophie Greiner advises German and other European clients, as well as African clients together with the lawyers at our offices. Her advice covers a broad range of commercial law issues as well as, on a selective basis, inheritance and family law.