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Tewfik Shehata

Senior Partner, Head of Litigation & Arbitration · Zaki Hashem, Attorneys at Law

EgyptInternational Arbitration, Litigation

About

Senior Partner and Head of Litigation & Arbitration at Zaki Hashem, with over 39 years' experience and involvement as counsel, sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator and presiding arbitrator in more than 75 ad hoc and institutional arbitrations. Extensive practice across arbitration and state-court challenges, corporate law, banking and project finance, and commercial, civil and labor litigation; rejoined Zaki Hashem in early 2025 after founding a private practice in 2016.

Practice areas

International ArbitrationLitigationBanking & FinanceCorporate / M&ACommercial Law

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Expertise

Ad hoc and institutional arbitrationInternational arbitration (ICC, LCIA, SCC, LMAA, CRCICA, DIS)State-court setting-aside/annulment of arbitral awards (Cairo Court of Appeal; Court of Cassation)Banking and project financeCorporate lawCommercial, civil and labor disputes