Matouk Bassiouny & Hennawy

Matouk Bassiouny is a leading, full-service MENA region law firm with offices in Cairo, Egypt (Matouk Bassiouny & Hennawy), Abu Dhabi and Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Khartoum, Sudan, and Algiers, Algeria, as well as a New York satellite office and two country desks covering our Libya and South Korea practices. Our attorneys specialize in advising multinationals, corporations, financial institutions and governmental entities on all legal aspects of investing and doing business in the MENA region.

Dispute resolution sits at the core of the Firm's practice. Our Dispute Resolution Group is one of the largest and highest-ranked in the region, with attorneys trained in both common and civil law jurisdictions and advising clients in Arabic, English, French and Korean. Our arbitration practice is headed by Dr. Amr A. Abbas. We act as counsel in complex commercial and investor-State arbitrations before the leading institutions — including CRCICA, the ICC, ICSID, the LCIA, DIAC, ADCCAC and the PCA, as well as under the UNCITRAL Rules and in ad hoc proceedings — and before the courts of Egypt, the UAE, Algeria and Sudan on the recognition, enforcement and annulment of awards. Our arbitration work spans energy and natural resources, construction and infrastructure, telecommunications, manufacturing, financial services and hospitality.

The Firm prides itself on its in-depth understanding of cross-border cultural and business practices and on providing a commercial, problem-solving approach in supporting its clients across the region.