Matouk Bassiouny & Hennawy

Dispute Resolution: Arbitration

Partner and Head of Arbitration and Co-Head of Competition.

Dr. Amr A. Abbas is a Partner and Head of the Arbitration Department and Co-Head of the Competition practice at Matouk Bassiouny & Hennawy, where over the last 20 years, he’s represented clients in more than 90 arbitration cases including cases under the laws of several jurisdictions including Abu Dhabi, Algeria, Dubai, Egypt, France, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom and the United States before ADCCAC, CAS, CRCICA, DIAC, DIFC-LCIA, LCIA, ICC, ICSID, PCA as well as in ad hoc arbitrations. He has acted as a legal advisor to the Egyptian Competition Authority (2014-2015). Dr. Abbas has also advised the Ministry of Petroleum on the draft natural gas law and acted as Egypt’s In-Country Evaluator for the United Nations Global Compact Anti-Corruption Collective Action Project in 2015. Prior to joining MBH, he worked at White & Case LLP, The World Bank in Washington DC, Sharkawy & Sarhan, Ibrachy & Dermarker in Cairo.

Dr. Abbas is also a staff member at the Faculty of Law Cairo University and the academic supervisor of the Faculty’s Moot Court Arbitration. In addition, he is an adjunct professor at the Law & Economic LLM program between Hamburg University and Cairo University.

Arabic and English

Egyptian Bar Association – Member. New York State Bar Association – Member. The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators – Fellow.

2012    University of London, Queen Mary College, Ibrahim Shehata Scholar, Centre for Commercial Law Studies: PhD

2005    The George Washington University Law School, Thomas Buergenthal Scholar: LL.M.

2002    Cairo University, Faculty of Law: LL.M.

2000    Cairo University, Faculty of Law, English Section: LL.B. with distinguished honors as the highest ranking LLB candidate in the English Section.