Dispute Resolution and Arbitration

Alliance Law Firm’s arbitration practice provides advice and advocacy to companies, individuals and state-owned entities in investment treaty, commercial and sport arbitration conducted in accordance with all major international arbitration rules. We also appear before courts to enforce or resist enforcement of international arbitration agreements and arbitral awards. Members of the team also serve as co-arbitrators and arbitrators’ assistant.

Practice Areas

Dispute Resolution and Arbitration

Alliance Law Firm’s Dispute Resolution and Arbitration practice provides advice and advocacy to a multitude of clients including companies, organizations, individuals, and state-owned entities.

The Team works on disputes arising from contracts, practice as well as governmental decrees. Considering the variety of clients that the Team handles, the Team is experienced in a multitude of disputes including investment treaty, commercial and sport disputes.

Additionally, the Team is familiar with arbitration procedures and rules of the major arbitration centers, as well as the specialized arbitration centers. Members of the team also serve as co – arbitrators and arbitrators’ assistants.

Moreover, the Team is adept to working on cross-jurisdictional disputes, having vast knowledge and experience of English and French law, as well as other jurisdictions.

As to arbitration proceedings, the Team appears before domestic courts to both implement or prevent, depending on the case, the enforcement of international arbitration agreements and arbitral awards.

Case Highlights:

  • Advising an international advertising and media company on different legal streams to recover its outstanding dues from one of the Egyptian ministries worth approximately USD 7 Million.
  • Advised and witnessed the landmark settlement of the commercial arbitral awards relating to EMG and the Egyptian state-owned entities (EGPC and EGAS) with a total amount exceeding USD 1.3 Billion.
  • Represented Vodafone Egypt Telecommunication S.A.E in the annulment of EGP 800 million arbitral award rendered in favor of Etisalat Egypt under the auspices of CRCICA. Then, advised Vodafone in its negotiations with Etisalat, the other mobile operators in Egypt and the NTRA in relation to the awards, judgments and disputes related to the applicability of interconnection rates between the mobile operators. The negotiations were concluded by a settlement and waiver to all the awards, judgments, and ongoing disputes between all the mobile operators and the NTRA, including the EGP 800 million arbitral award rendered against Vodafone. The settlement involved approximately a total value of EGP 2 billion.
  • Co-represented an Operating & Maintaining Touristic Construction Company against the State of Kuwait in the ICSID Case No. ARB/18/2 in relation to a real estate and tourism project with an approximate value of USD 320 Million.
  • Represented a TV anchor against a renowned TV channel and secured a favorable award with a total-approximate compensation of EGP 1 million.
  • Represented an international cement company, as Respondent, in CRCICA proceeding and secured a favorable award to the client. Approximately EGP 40 million was at stake.
  • Represented FLSmidth Operation & Maintenance in an ICC arbitration proceeding in Geneva, Switzerland, against the National Cement Company (NCC) and the Holding Company for Chemical Industries, as well as in its negotiations with the said companies and the concerned authorities in Egypt, which has led to a successful settlement for a total claim exceeding EGP 700 million.
  • Represented the president of the Egyptian, Arab and African Federations of Bodybuilding and the First Vice President of the International Federation of Bodybuilding (IFBB) in an appeal case before the CAS, Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • Represented an Egyptian agriculture company in an appeal case before the Gafta, London. The dispute arises from sale agreements of fava beans imported from Latvia to Egypt for a value approximating to USD 2 million.
  • Representing a leading finance Emirate company which is listed in Dubai stock market and its two subsidiaries’ companies in Egypt in a dispute against Cairo governorate with total claim amounts to EGP 1.5
  • Representing a leading company in the automotive sector in a claim before the Egyptian Competition Authority, and we are still in the interrogations, negotiations, and settlement proceedings with the Competition Authority. My role is reviewing and analyzing the company’s practices in relation to the ECA claim, attending the negotiation meetings and preparing all the required documents for settling such claim.
  • Represented a leading multinational company in the yeast production industry in a claim before the Egyptian Competition Authority with a total claim amount up to EGP 220 million, and we successfully settled the claim with settlement fee amounting to EGP 10 million without restoring to any court proceedings against the company or any of its upper management.
  • Represented a free zone leading company in the global fashion and apparel industry that is considered as one of the largest export oriented industrial platforms in Egypt and Middle East in a tax claim case with total amount of EGP 47 million before the tax authority that is transferred to the public prosecutor, and we successfully evidenced that the company is not addressed nor subject to the corporate incomes tax.
  • Represented a multinational operation and maintenance service provider company in cement industries that has a major branch in the Egyptian market in a tax evasion case amounting to EGP 114 million, and we successfully settled the tax claim before an appointed tax committee by the Prosecutor by reducing the tax claim to EGP 38.7 million and discharge the criminal case filed against the company’s chairman.
  • Represented a multinational operation and maintenance service provider company in cement industries globally in an ICC arbitration proceeding in Geneva, Switzerland against a public– sector company. A settlement agreement was successfully reached and endorsed by the Egyptian Cabinet letting go a $ 43 million
  • Represented an ex-listed company with a significant share in the Egyptian Cement Market, in an arbitration proceeding held under CRCICA rules as a Respondent, and we successfully secured a favorable award to our client. The dispute’s value was EGP 45 million.
  • Represented three Cement Companies, in the same group, in tax claims amounting to EGP 1.8 billion, and we successfully settled the tax claims before the tax settlement committee by reducing the claims to EGP 270 million.