Zulficar & Partners Law Firm

Zulficar & Partners is a premier international arbitration and corporate law firm based in the heart of Cairo, Egypt, providing a comprehensive range of legal services, to a diverse array of clients, both in Egypt and internationally.

Since its establishment in 2009, the firm has been providing a comprehensive range of state-of-the-art legal services to a diverse portfolio of national and international commercial, investment, industrial and financial clients, as well as state and state-owned entities.  Zulficar & Partners has established itself as a legal market leader regionally and a a precedent maker across all sectors and disciplines, with a clear track record of success, being well known for its innovative, strategic and result- oriented.

Zulficar & Partners leads the market with five- star quality groups of 16 partners and more than 65 senior associates, associates and counsels. The firm was founded by seven founding partners, where Ms Mona Zulficar serves as the chair of the executive committee.

The firm is regularly ranked as a first-tier dispute resolution and arbitration practice and regularly features as a leading dispute resolutions and and arbitration firm in leading directories. It is the only Egyptian firm that featured for no less than nine consecutive years in the GAR100 guide to the world's top arbitration firms since 2015.

In 2023, Zulficar & Partners was top- ranked by Chambers Global Guide 2023, in banking and finance, capital markets, corporate/ M&A, dispute resolution: arbitration and litigation (Egypt), naming Prof Dr Mohamed Abdel Wahab, founding partner and head of the international arbitration, construction and oil and gas groups, as "one of the best- known arbitration lawyers in Egypt" and Mr Mahmoud Shaltout, founding partner and head of the litigation group as "Smart, good on his feet and very engaged" and naming Ms Mona Zulficar "The guru of banking law" and Mr Anwar Zeidan, founding partner and head of the capital market and procedures groups , as "One of the best in capital markets" and Mariam El Masry, partner at the M&A group as "A very Strong Lawyer".

The IFLR1000 ranks Zulficar & Partners as TIER 1 in banking, M&A, project finance and capital markets, debt and equity, and acknowledged Ms Mona Zulficar, Ashraf Ihab, Dr Ingy Badawy and Anwar Zeidan as Highly Regarded Lawyers, Dr Firas El Samad, founding and managing partner and head of competition and technology groups, as a Notable Practitioner, and partners, Mariam El Masry and Rana Al Nahal as Rising Stars.