Riad & Riad’s team is ‘generally great and sophisticated with employment law matters’, covering the range of employment, labour and social insurance laws, including gig work, HR compliance and handbooks, restrictive covenants, discrimination and employment termination. Eman Riad jointly leads the practice and consistently demonstrates ’outstanding legal knowledge and provides clear legal advice on labour laws’. Co-head Mohamed Riad has a strong reputation for labour and employment disputes, regularly handling a number of complex termination and dismissal cases.

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  • ‘Riad & Riad provides clear, to-the-point answers to legal consultations from clients in a short period of time. It is assumed that this is due not only to its in-depth legal knowledge, but also to its deep understanding of the client's actual situation.’

  • ‘Eman Riad provides outstanding legal knowledge and clear legal advice on various laws, as well as labour laws are excellent. We also greatly appreciate her prompt response.’

  • ‘The team is generally great and sophisticated with employment law matters. Eman Riad is the best employment lawyer in Egypt. She managed to combine her academic and practical experience in an exceptional way, delivering a great product!’

  • ‘Deep knowledge of employment legal system in Egypt and great response level.’

Key clients

  • VFS Global Egypt
  • Microsoft Egypt
  • British Airways
  • G4S
  • Coats
  • Clariant
  • Haier Egypt
  • Nufarm
  • AVIC International
  • Asahi TV-Japan
  • Kellogg Tolaram
  • Deloitte Japan Legal
  • Squire Patton Boggs
  • Pinsent Masons
  • Itochu Corporation
  • Marubeni-Itochu Tubulars
  • ABC Bank
  • Medtronic
  • JETRO
  • Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
  • Acino Pharma
  • CMS
  • Techno-Scan
  • Malaysian Palm Oil Board
  • Nippon
  • VFS Investment
  • Schneider

Work highlights

  • Providing Microsoft legal labour and employment advice.
  • Assisting the VFS Global Egypt in their daily labour and social insurance matters covering the head-office in Cairo and other branches in different Egyptian cities.
  • Providing Squire Patton Boggs with legal advice and with answering a questionnaire – for a client – in relation to data protection and diversity in the workplace.

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Practice head

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Eman Riad, Mohamed Riad