Partner - Legal

Lena Hamdi is a Partner at Andersen Tax & Legal in Egypt. She has extensive experience providing market entry strategies and consolidated legal and business advise to companies, including start-ups . Lena’s experience includes intellectual property protection against any illegal infringement, disputes concerning illegitimate competition and the disclosure of trade secrets.

In addition to the above, Lena also handles the registration of patents, trademarks, industrial designs, including (filing applications, defending patents & trademarks, before a patent board, and preparing responses to reports from patent examiners, renewing applications and handling appeal processes).

Lena also has experience with negotiating, drafting and executing all franchise documents including franchise agreements, disclosure documents, lease agreements for franchise premises, and intellectual property licensing, the creation of legal franchising strategies for the penetration of the Egyptian market, and drafting and negotiating commercial agency and distribution agreements.

Lena Hamdi was appointed to the Andersen Global Board of Directors in 2018.

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Law LLB, Queen Mary University London