Mohamed Samy
Mohamed Samy
Counsel
Mohamed is a Counsel in Matouk Bassiouny & Hennawy’s Arbitration team. With over 10 years of experience, he specializes in managing complex, cross-border and high-stakes commercial and investor-state arbitrations. He has advised and represented both regional and international clients in disputes across various legal systems and sectors, under the auspices of numerous arbitration institutions, including ICSID, ICC, LCIA, DIAC, CRCICA, UNCITRAL and ad hoc tribunals. Furthermore, Mohamed is a teaching assistant of International Economic Law in Cairo University.
Practice Focus
Mohamed focuses his practice on resolving international and domestic disputes, focusing on oil and gas agreements, mergers and acquisitions, construction, distribution, telecommunications, international investment, private equity, hotel management, shareholders disputes, and various commercial and corporate conflicts. He also works on annulment and enforcement proceedings of domestic and foreign arbitral awards before Egyptian courts. Mohamed also handles competition law matters, including competition law investigations and merger control matters.
Selected Recent Experience
- Representing a major Egyptian automotice investor in a multi-million dollar investor-state dispute against a North African Arab country.
- Represneting a world-leading dairy company in a shareholders dispute against a major Egyptian investor and politician concerning the management of the jpoint venture companies between them.
- Successfully representing a globally leading company specializing in steel mill services against a major steel company in the Middle East in an arbitration under the Abu Dhabi Commercial Conciliation and Arbitration Centre, seated in Abu Dhabi and governed by the laws of the UAE, concerning the construction of new line and the provision of certain technical services in a manufacturing plant owned by the counterparty. The award exceeded USD 20 million.
- Advising a major Qatari company in a multi-million dollar dispute against a major European company concerning a shareholders dispute in a dispute under LCIA Rules, governed by Qatari law.
- Representation of Union Fenosa Gas on Egyptian law issues concerning a multi-billion dollar claim against an Egyptian state entity for its failure to perform its contractual obligations under a Natural Gas Sale and Purchase Agreement signed between them. The dispute included different arbitration proceedings filed by the Spanish Gas company against the Egyptian State Entity at Cairo Regional Center for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA) and another proceeding registered with ICSID against the Egyptian Government. The total value of the claims was over USD 2 billion.
- Successfully Representating Etisalat in a complex and high-profile interconnection dispute filed by another significant telecommunication company at CRCICA, successfully obtaining an arbitral award of more than EGP 700 million for Etisalat.
- Representation of EIIC in an ICC arbitration seated in London and successfully obtaining an award with a total value of over USD 75 million
- Representing a major Middle Eastern investor in LCIA arbitration in London regarding corporate dispute.
- Representing a major maritime company in DFIC-LCIA arbitration relating to the replacement of subsea pipeline under Saudi law values exceeding USD 80 million.
Education
Queen Mary University of London (UK), PhD in International Invetsment Law.
2024
University of Cambridge (UK), Master of Laws: LL.M.
2019
Cairo University, Faculty of Law, Master of Laws: LLM.
2017
Cairo University, Faculty of Law, English Section: LLB with High Honors.
2015