Hamada El-Saadawi
Founding Partners

Hamada El-Saadawi

Founding Partner & Executive Director

Admitted before the Court of Cassation, the Supreme Administrative Court, and the Supreme Constitutional Court; legal counsel to numerous major companies and entities in Egypt and across the Arab region.

Experience28+ years
Practice focus04
01Professional Summary

Career Overview

Admitted before the Court of Cassation, the Supreme Administrative Court, and the Supreme Constitutional Court, with over 28 years of legal experience in litigation and advisory before the full range of courts, judicial bodies, and regulators — including economic, criminal, and financial/economic-crime matters.

He has led and supervised a wide spectrum of complex legal files in corporate and investment work, commercial disputes, arbitration, and economic criminal matters — with deep hands-on experience engaging with Egyptian government and regulatory bodies.

He serves as legal counsel to several major and diverse corporate and economic entities, locally and internationally — including Andalusia Hospitals and others — providing strategic legal support and risk management aligned to each business and market.

He brings a holistic legal perspective combining practical experience with a strategic approach, with an extensive record representing clients before litigation and arbitration forums and crafting complex legal solutions — including defence in economic crimes, money-laundering, money-deployment offences, currency and cryptocurrency trading cases, trademark counterfeiting, website intrusion and cybercrime, public-funds matters, and tax and customs evasion.

03Selected Experience

Representative Work

  1. Leading legal departments of major groups operating in Egypt and abroad.
  2. Restructuring contractual systems and developing compliance and governance programmes.
  3. Aligning legal strategy with institutional operating and investment objectives.
05Sectors

Sector Focus

  • Healthcare
  • Real-estate investment
  • Energy
  • Hospitality
06Supporting Expertise

Supporting Competencies

  1. Restructuring contractual systems
  2. Developing compliance and governance programmes
  3. Proactive legal risk management
  4. Commercial and investment contract drafting
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