Mohamed Omar
Mohamed Omar
Partner
Mohamed Omar is a partner at Matouk Bassiouny & Hennawy and a member of the Dispute Resolution practice group and heads the firm’s consumer goods and retail sector. He has been with the firm since 2012 and has been practicing law for more than 11 years, where he has represented or been engaged in/with: litigation, arbitration, commercial, agency disputes, enforcement of court judgements, amicable settlements, and arbitral awards. Extending his services to both national and international clients, ensuring to secure and effectively manage his clients’ risk and realizing their strategic interests before the appropriate authorities and courts.
Referring to Mohamed, recent legal periodicals have stated:
Selected Recent Experience
- Successful representation of an automotive manufacturer in connection with blocking claims before the local courts of USD 225 million involving procedural and substantive arguments relating to commercial agency/distribution relationship in Egypt. Successfully securing a jurisdiction judgment in this dispute from Cairo Economic Court, which constitutes a legal precedent in agency disputes.
- Successful representation of a British international shoe manufacturer and retailer in connection with blocking claims before the local courts exceeding USD 45 million involving procedural and substantive arguments relating to commercial agency/distribution relationships in Egypt.
- Representation of a German global leader in connection with the production of rigid plastic film solutions for primary packaging of products, by blocking claims in relation to an agency/distribution dispute. Claims were valued at USD 2.9 million.
- Representation of an American entertainment company in connection with a debt recovery claim leading to a successful multi-million US Dollar recovery settlement involving a groundbreaking trademark enforcement action against the debtor company. Considered a watershed case for intellectual property rights in Egypt as it marks the first successful enforcement against a trademark and tradename in the Egyptian market.
- Representation of a medical technology company in connection with an agency/distribution dispute.
- Representation of a pharmaceutical company before Egyptian courts in connection with an agency/distribution dispute valued at USD 5 million.
- Successful representation of a Swiss multinational science and chemicals company in connection with blocking claims before the local courts exceeding USD 3 million. Involving procedural and substantive arguments relating to technology transfer/distribution relationships in Egypt.
- Representation of a multinational biomedical technology company in connection with claims pending before the local courts involving procedural and substantive arguments relating to commercial agency/distribution relationships in Egypt.
- Successful representation of a British multinational science and chemicals company in connection with securing amicable settlement of claims before the local courts. Involving procedural and substantive arguments relating to commercial agency/distribution relationships in Egypt.
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