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Practice Areas

Comprehensive legal coverage across every stage of investment, operations, and litigation.

15practice areas

EGall Egyptian authorities

Company formation & investment

We accompany the investor from the decision-making moment through licensing and operational launch, with full legal coverage before every relevant authority.

Company formation in all legal forms (LLC, JSC, SPC, foreign branches, representative offices) before GAFI.
Company formation in public and private free zones and special-nature economic zones.
Dealing with FRA for the formation of venture-capital companies, funds, and securities companies.
Foreign-ownership structuring and security-clearance procedures for foreign investors.
Drafting and review of memoranda, articles of association, and internal governance regulations.
Shareholder agreements: voting rights, exit mechanisms, drag-along and tag-along provisions.
Investment-land allocation before NUCA, IDA, GAFI, and governorates.
Industrial and other licensing from IDA and all competent local authorities.
Mergers & acquisitions and legal due diligence.
FDI documentation and periodic GAFI reporting per Egyptian regulations.

Corporate & commercial matters

Drafting contracts, major-project agreements, governance, and restructuring — the day-to-day work executive management needs.

Drafting and review of commercial contracts: agency, distribution, franchise, licensing, sub-contracting.
FIDIC contracts (Red, Yellow, and Silver Books) for major projects and infrastructure.
Oil & gas sector contracts: PSAs, service contracts, JOAs.
Renewable energy contracts (wind and solar): PPA, BOO, BOT, and grid-interconnection agreements with the regulator.
Corporate governance: board composition, executive committees, disclosure and transparency policies.
Restructuring of legal entities, conversion of legal forms, and corporate demergers.
Liquidation, bankruptcy, and financial restructuring under Bankruptcy Law 11/2018.
Debt recovery and banking/finance disputes.

Energy, infrastructure & major projects

A rare and high-value specialisation — integrated legal counsel for Egypt's growing energy and infrastructure projects.

Project-finance structuring and drafting of creditor-security documentation.
BOT/BOO/BOOT contracts and public-private partnerships (PPP).
Legal counsel for major industrial projects and specialised industrial zones.
Renewable-energy contracts under the NREA regulatory framework and the national regulator.
Technology-transfer and IP agreements in energy projects.
Disputes arising from infrastructure contracts and claims management.
Representation before international arbitration institutions (ICC, LCIA, CRCICA) for infrastructure disputes.

Arbitration & dispute resolution

Alternative routes to litigation before regional and international arbitration institutions, with early strategic management.

Domestic and international commercial arbitration: CRCICA, ICC, LCIA, and Gulf centres (DIAC, SCCA, QICCA, BCDR-AAA) and others.
Drafting arbitration clauses and agreements, and selecting the appropriate institution per activity.
Representation as claimant or respondent in arbitration proceedings, preparing pleadings and defences.
Enforcement of foreign arbitral awards in Egypt under the 1958 New York Convention.
Amicable settlement and mediation as effective alternatives to litigation.
Representation before the Preparation and Mediation Panels at the Economic Courts.
Dispute-management strategy and early risk assessment.

Council of State & administrative contracts

Administrative appeals, government contracts, and licensing/land disputes.

Drafting and reviewing high-value administrative contracts, tenders, and government auctions.
Administrative licensing disputes (factories, retail, public utilities).
Challenges to administrative decisions before the Council of State courts.
Representation before the Supreme Administrative Court in appeals and cassations.
Disputes with NUCA and city authorities.
State-property trespass, building violations, and demolition disputes.
Government contracts and public-project litigation.

Capital markets & financial regulation

Legal services for the exchange community and non-banking financial markets.

Legal counsel for EGX participants and FRA disclosure procedures.
M&A regulated under FRA Decision 178/2024.
Establishment and operation of brokerage companies and investment funds.
Capital-market disputes and supervisory investigations before FRA.
IPOs and exchange-based merger transactions.
Representation in financial-nature economic-court cases.

Real-estate investment & property-rights protection

From developer disputes to real-estate registration and foreign-ownership matters.

Developer disputes: delivery delays, breach of contract, refund claims, and rescission.
Real-estate registration and title transfer before the Real-Estate Publicity Authority.
Foreign ownership of real estate in Egypt under the approved legal procedures.
Land regularisation and possessory-title work, including completing ownership procedures, settling building violations, and engaging with the various wilaya authorities.
Obtaining building and construction permits.
Lease-law disputes, eviction procedures, and possession delivery.
Compensation for expropriation for public benefit.
Real-estate brokerage and intermediary licences.
Civil-court litigation in real-estate ownership: title-confirmation, validity-and-enforceability, invalidity of dispositions, and similar claims.

Labour & employment

Managing the employer-worker relationship under the new Labour Law, and shielding companies from employment risk.

Drafting employment contracts and internal regulations under Labour Law 14/2025.
Opening social-insurance files before NOSI.
Foreign-worker permits and employment-linked residency procedures.
Protecting companies from labour risk through robust internal systems and legal oversight of corporate HR.
Unfair-dismissal disputes, compensation, and leave-balance claims.
Termination of employment relations and settlement of individual and collective labour disputes.

Tax, customs & financial disputes

Specialised legal representation in tax and customs before the competent committees and courts.

Tax advisory for companies, investors, and foreigners (income tax, commercial profits, stamp duty, VAT, and others).
Tax disputes before the Tax Authority, tax-appeals committees, and the courts.
Tax-evasion and customs-evasion cases before all competent courts.
Benefiting from Egypt's double-tax-avoidance treaties.
Import and export cases.

Intellectual property, technology & digital economy

Protecting intangible assets and addressing cybercrime.

Trademark, patent, copyright, and public-performance rights registration.
Digital-rights and online-content protection before the competent authorities.
IP and unfair-competition disputes before the Economic Courts.
Technology-transfer, technical-licensing, and NDA agreements.
Cybercrime and violations of the IT Crimes Law and Telecom Regulation Law.

Litigation before every court, at every tier

Comprehensive representation before economic, civil, criminal, cassation, supreme administrative, military, and specialist prosecution bodies.

Economic Courts: commercial disputes, banking and insurance cases, and disputes arising under investment, competition, and consumer-protection laws.
Civil Courts: real-estate, developer disputes, leases, compensation and civil liability.
Criminal Courts: economic misdemeanours and felonies, money-laundering, foreign-exchange crimes, cyber-extortion, customs evasion.
Court of Cassation (civil and criminal chambers): preparing and filing cassation appeals at the highest level.
Supreme Administrative Court: administrative appeals and annulment of defective administrative decisions.
Military Courts: representation in military-court cases.
Estate-partition claims.
Representation before the General Prosecution and specialist prosecutions (economic affairs & money-laundering, public-funds supreme, tax & customs, and supreme state-security).

Maritime & aviation

Carrier law, passenger and cargo compensation, and maritime/aviation insurance.

Maritime-transport disputes, vessel incidents, and carrier liability.
Air-transport disputes and passenger/cargo compensation.
Maritime and aviation insurance disputes.
Disputes arising under aviation law.

Foreigners, residency & nationality

Integrated services for foreigners and their families inside Egypt.

Issuing and renewing foreign-resident permits of all types in Egypt.
Acquiring Egyptian nationality via investment and residency routes.
Foreign-worker permits and regularising their legal status.
Notarisation of foreigners' marriages before the competent authorities.
Representation before the Passports, Emigration & Nationality Authority.
Enforcement and recognition of foreign judgments in Egypt.

Education, academic institutions & healthcare

Legal services for education and healthcare institutions and the disputes that affect those sectors.

Formation and licensing of private and international schools, universities, and institutes, engaging with the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Higher Education, and the Supreme Council of Universities.
Formation and licensing of hospitals and medical centres, engaging with the Ministry of Health, its directorates, the Private-Treatment body, and the Medical Syndicate.
Drafting and reviewing internal regulations for educational institutions and management/operations contracts.
Representation in administrative disputes over education licences and their revocation or suspension.
Regularising unlicensed schools and centres and settling under the applicable laws.
International education-partnership and franchising contracts.
Compliance with the legal rules governing foreign and international curricula inside Egypt.

Sports law & sports investment

Sports law and the contracts, disputes, and arbitral work tied to it.

Formation of sports clubs and sports-services companies under Egypt's Sports Law.
Drafting and reviewing player, coach, and player-agent contracts.
Club and player disputes before local and international sports federations.
Sports arbitration before the Sports Settlement & Arbitration Centre and international bodies.
Sponsorship, broadcasting, and image-rights contracts.
Investment in clubs and academies, and structuring sports partnerships.
Doping, sports discipline, and disciplinary proceedings.
Representing sports entities before competent administrative and supervisory authorities.

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