Mr. Mahmoud Hamrouch

Biography

Mahmoud Hamrouch is an Associate lawyer specialized in corporate, litigation, and arbitration, with extensive experience in commercial litigation, arbitration, corporate advisory, and cross-border legal matters. He advises multinational corporations and major business entities on a broad range of contentious and non-contentious matters, with particular focus on commercial disputes, contract drafting and review, regulatory compliance, and transactional work.

Throughout his practice, Mahmoud has represented clients before Egyptian courts and has coordinated cross-border disputes with foreign counsel, particularly in Gabon. He has extensive expertise in handling commercial litigation matters, drafting legal memoranda, appeal briefs, legal notices, and conducting legal research under Egyptian, Moroccan, and Gabonese laws.

He also has practical experience in arbitration proceedings before the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA) and in matters relating to International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), including BIT and Arbitration notices, memorial drafting, arbitration submissions, legal research on substantive and international law, and enforcement proceedings of arbitral awards before Egyptian courts.

Mahmoud has worked on a wide range of corporate and commercial matters, including the drafting and review of Share Purchase Agreements (SPAs) and Shareholders Agreements (SHA), franchise agreements for major food and beverage companies, commercial contracts, and corporate governance documentation and advice.

He also has extensive experience in corporate regulatory matters, including the drafting, review, attendance, and ratification of Board of Directors (BOD), Extraordinary General Meetings (EGM), and Ordinary General Meetings (OGM) resolutions and minutes. In addition, he has experience in the incorporation and structuring of Joint Stock companies and limited liability companies before the General Authority for Investment and Free Zones (GAFI).

Mahmoud possesses more than three years of experience in tendering and procurement matters within the electricity and renewable energy sectors, including contract review, tender documentation, regulatory compliance, and transactional support relating to energy projects and infrastructure matters, in addition to onsite survey for High Voltage Substation and Transmission lines projects in Mali and Mauritania, and communication with the Electric Ministry of Mauritania “Société Mauritanienne d’Electricité” (SOMELEC)

Mahmoud also has over five years of professional experience in legal translation, specializing in legal, corporate, arbitration, and tendering documents in Arabic, English, and French.

Sector Experience

His professional experience spans clients operating in the transportation, energy, renewable energy, food and beverage, commercial, and industrial sectors. Mahmoud also advises on labor and employment matters, intellectual property issues, import/export regulations, and administrative procedures before Egyptian governmental and regulatory authorities, including the Egyptian Tax Authority and the Egyptian Competition Authority, Ministry of Labour, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, etc[LW1.1].

Representative Matters:

• Represented leading hospitality and hotel operators in labor disputes concerning alleged arbitrary dismissal claims before Egyptian labor courts.

• Represented leading transportation and public utility operators in theft incidents reports before the Egyptian Public Prosecution and Military Courts

• Represented leading transportation and public utility operators in labor disputes concerning alleged arbitrary dismissal claims before Egyptian labor courts, in addition to providing with legal advice regarding public tender regulations and standards in the transportation sector

• Represented operators in the energy sector in labor disputes concerning alleged arbitrary dismissal claims before Egyptian labor courts and employees’ claims for entitlement to a percentage of the company’s net profits

• Represented major foreign investors in arbitration submission against the Egyptian Government before ICSID

• Represented major Egyptian investors in the real estate sector in arbitration submission before CRCICA

• Represented major foreign investors in arbitration submission before OIC-AC

• Represented Egyptian fruits exporters in international and local commercial litigation

• Incorporated major F&B joint stock companies at GAFI and represented them in SHA, SPA, intellectual property franchise agreements matter.

• Conducted due diligence, corporate governance and corporate restructuring for major companies in the poultry industry in Egypt and Morocco and represented them before ECA

• Represented Chinese Pharmaceuticals companies before EDA

• Conducted due diligence for major Chinese energy operators regarding Egyptian and Saudi Arabian law

• Represented major agricultural operators in matters related to land purchase agreements in Morocco

• Supervises cross border commercial litigation with local counsel in Gabon for major Egyptian fruit exporters

• Provided legal advice for American NGO to finally close their regional branch office in Egypt

• Provided Corporate and regulatory advice and services for major joint stock and limied liability companies