Shahid Law Firm's arbitration team is renowned for its deep legal expertise, strategic acumen, and commitment to client success. The firm’s extensive experience and global reach ensure that clients receive the highest level of representation in arbitration matters, making Shahid Law Firm a market leader in arbitration legal services.
During its 35+ years of practice, our Dispute Resolution: Arbitration and Litigation practice successfully represented major clients in varied commercial and investor-state arbitration matters ranging from routine matters to large and complex multinational arbitrations in various industries including energy, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, construction, insurance, hotel ownership and management, automotive and real estate development.
Our lawyers are regularly appointed as expert witnesses, and arbitrators, and are often called to chair arbitration tribunals, which gives the Firm an additional practical insight and a unique edge while assessing the merits of a case.
Shahid Law Firm has been involved in several landmark arbitration cases in Egypt and internationally and has considerable experience before arbitration centers; be it regional (CRCICA and DIAC) or international (ICSID, ICC, PCA, UNCITRAL, and Ad Hoc).
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- Proceedings related to tax and insolvency;
- Disputes related to construction and real estate;
- Disputes related to shareholders’ agreements;
- Disputes related to domestic and international commercial arbitrations, as well as investment treaty arbitrations; and
Construction & EPC Disputes
- Representing a Saudi subcontractor in a Saudi-seated ICC arbitration case, governed by Saudi law, against a contractor over claims related to a Saudi ARAMCO project.
- Representing a South Korean construction company in a landmark Egyptian court case governed by Egyptian and French laws enforcing an interim ICC tribunal order in a USD 72 million dispute over a failed Port development project.
- Representing a Canadian oil & gas company in a multi-million USD CRCICA arbitration case over damages from a wellbore blowout.
- Representing an Emirati real estate company in a multi-million USD ICC arbitration case over construction disputes related to major real estate projects in Egypt.
Commercial & Shareholder Disputes
- Representing a minority shareholder in a multi-million USD ICC arbitration case over alleged breaches of a shareholders’ and capital increase agreement.
- Handled an arbitration case before DIAC, seated in the UAE and governed by UAE law, against a UAE developer over a failed residential project, successfully securing a favorable award to the unit buyer. Shahid Law is currently in the process of enforcing the award before the Dubai Courts against the real estate developer and is taking several measures to prevent asset dissipation.
- Representing a Saudi investor in two multi-million USD CRCICA arbitration cases against a major Egyptian financial services conglomerate over cross-border transactions.
- Represented UAE and Lebanese media companies in multi-million USD international arbitration cases against an Egyptian TV production company, securing the extension of arbitration clauses to non-signatories due to civil fraud.
- Representing a leading German automotive group against a multi-million USD claim by its former distributor, dismissing the case for lack of jurisdiction.
Investment Disputes
- Representing Heidelberg Cement Group as co-counsel in a multi-million USD ICSID arbitration case against Egypt, citing unfair competition and market distortion based on Egypt-Germany BIT, Egypt-France BIT, Egypt-Italy BIT and Egypt-Morocco BIT.
- Representing Tantalum International Ltd and Emerge Gaming Ltd. in an ICSID arbitration case against Egypt over measures impacting Australian mining investments.
- Representing a Malaysian Oil & Gas multinational in a multi-billion USD ICSID investment treaty claim against a Sub-Saharan country over petroleum sector restrictions.
- Represented Qatar Airways in multi-billion USD treaty claims before PCA and the Arab Investment Court against Egypt regarding the air blockade under multiple treaties.
- Acted as co-counsel for a major downstream Oil and Gas Company in a complex multi- billion-dollar major international oil and gas dispute against the Arab Republic of Egypt and various State entities, known as the “Peace Pipeline Cases”, before ICSID, ICC, CRCICA, UNCITRAL and PCA.
