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Shahid Law Firm

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Shahid Law Firm is recognised as a ‘very good employment practice’ and skilled in both contentious and non-contentious employment matters. Key practice strengths include terminations, disciplinary actions, labour union matters, and social insurance-related work. The ’tenacious’ Rasha Maurice leads the practice and has a strong track record advising corporates on employee-related matters, including lay-offs, work permits, and work policies.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘Shahid has a very good employment practice. This is due to Partner Rasha Maurice who provides excellent advice in this very complicated arena.’

  • ‘Partner Rasha Maurice provides excellent legal support taking into account both the legal and business risks. Her advice is tailored to the needs of the client. Rasha also has a strategic view often looking outside the confines of the legal request in the interest of her client.’

  • ‘I admire the professional level and qualifications plus decency and accuracy of your team members.'

  • ‘Shahid has been a partner of ours for a long time due to the proper understanding of the legal ecosystem in the country. Aware of the difficulties, practical proposals are brought to the table and implemented with tenacity in a very complicated legal framework.'

  • ‘Rasha Maurice is tenacious despite the hurdles that the local legal system put in front of you and provides detailed legal advice with quality while taking into account the practical implications and the difficulties that implementation may face ’

  • ‘Very professional approach and very accurate advice. They fulfil what they promise.'

  • ‘Very reliable and responsive. Committed to fulfil what has been agreed.'

  • ‘The individual I worked with was very easy to speak to and had an international eye.’

Key clients

  • Acciona
  • Alcon Scientific Office in Egypt
  • Aramex International Egypt for Air and Local Services SAE
  • Concentrix
  • F.Hoffmann La Roche AG
  • Gewiss SpA
  • GlaxoSmithKline
  • Globeleq
  • Lundbeck Limited
  • Medtronic Egypt LLC
  • Mountain View
  • Nokia Egypt SAE
  • Reckitt Benckiser
  • Roche Diagnostics Egypt for Trading SAE
  • TTEC
  • Voltalia
  • Younexa Egypt for Frits and Glazes SAE

Work highlights

  • Advising Roche Diagnostics on various labour matters including which termination of employment and redundancy and conducting internal administrative investigations as well as the benefits to be granted to the Company’s employees.
  • Providing Concentrix with legal advice and assistance in relation to the Company’s labour compliance matters, including but not limited to terminations of employment, administrative investigations, and advising on labour compliance matters including indemnities, end-of-service compensations, benefits and allowances, legal disciplinary actions, governmental medical insurance for Concentrix’s employees as well as the labour related audits which take place on the Company’s accounts from its multinational clients.
  • Providing TTEC with legal advice on day-to-day complex labour, and social insurance matters including but not limited to opening a social insurance file for the Company inside Egypt as well as the benefits to be granted to the Company’s employees in accordance with the provisions of the Egyptian Labour Law and the common practice in the Egyptian market. Preparing drafts of employment contracts for the staff to be hired by the newly incorporated company in Egypt. Reviewing and amending the Company’s policies and procedures.

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Rasha Maurice