Mr. Zaki Hassan

Biography

Zaki Hassan is regarded as one of the distinguished legal professionals, possessing twenty-seven years of professional experience in litigation, arbitration, and dispute resolution, with particular focus on criminal matters as well as complex economic and financial disputes, in addition to multilateral civil and commercial disputes.

Throughout his professional career, he has acquired extensive expertise in advocacy before various levels of courts, including the Court of Cassation in its commercial, civil, criminal, and labor circuits. Furthermore, he has represented Egyptian, foreign, and multinational individuals and corporations before judicial authorities, reflecting an outstanding ability to manage complex legal disputes in accordance with the highest professional standards.

Legal Expertise and Specialized Practice Areas.

The scope of Mr. Zaki Hassan Zaki’s expertise encompasses a wide range of legal fields, most notably:

-Litigation in civil and commercial cases across all degrees of jurisdiction.

-Economic and financial criminal cases.

-Arbitration Disputes, including institutional, ad hoc and international commercial arbitration.

-Enforcement of international and Egyptian arbitral awards.

-Tax disputes before administrative courts and the Supreme Administrative Court.

-Bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings and financial restructuring.

-Cheque disputes and complex commercial and financial contracts.

-Banking, finance, and commercial credit disputes.

-Debt settlement and commercial recovery.

- Labor Cases and the settlement of collective and individual labor disputes.

- Expertise in legal consultancy and corporate management.

Zaki Hassan has worked as a legal advisor at several top-tier Egyptian law firms. He has also provided legal consultancy to a wide array of companies operating in multiple sectors, including:

-Information technology and software companies.

- The Egyptian Association for Information Technology Exports.

-Iron and steel manufacturing and heavy industries.

-Tourism and hospitality companies, including cruise ship management.

- Industrial equipment, machinery, and refrigeration manufacturing companies.

-General trade and agricultural supply companies (seeds and pesticides).

- A group of food products and energy drinks companies.

- A group of companies operating in the advertising and media sector.

This has enabled him to build profound practical expertise in supporting corporate legal operations, managing legal risks, and drafting preventive and proactive legal solutions.

Major Cases and High Value Matters.

Zaki Hassan Zaki has managed and represented numerous high value and legally significant matters, including:

- Bankruptcy Proceedings: Managed bankruptcy proceedings for an iron and steel corporate group valued at over 800 million EGP, which concluded with the closure of bankruptcy in a manner that achieved the best legal and financial outcomes for the client.

-Estate Liquidation: Participated in major estate liquidation cases, most notably a complex legal dispute with a total value of approximately 2 billion EGP, which ended with the establishment of minors' rights to amounts exceeding 170 million EGP pursuant to final judicial rulings.

- Arbitration: Engagement in institutional and international arbitration disputes, preparing defense memoranda in cases between corporations and between investors and host states, with claims exceeding USD 200 million.

- Economic Criminal Cases: Development and management of defense strategies in economic criminal cases involving foreign currency dealings, investment fraud, money laundering, state security and freedoms, asset freezes, and customs evasion.

- Commercial Disputes: Management of cheque disputes and commercial contract claims totaling over USD 8 million, resolved favorably through case consolidation and expiry of criminal actions by limitation.

-Debt Collection: Administration of debt recovery and settlement files for foreign companies exceeding USD 4 million, achieving effective recovery and settlements.

-Tourism and Hospitality Disputes: Represented tourism and hotel companies in operation disputes and the management of cruise ship and tourist facility contracts valued at over 18 million USD, while conducting effective negotiation and legal settlement.

- Labor Disputes: Managed and settled complex labor disputes for Egyptian and foreign corporate groups, achieving a balance between the interests of employers and workers in accordance with the regulatory legal frameworks.

-Tax Appeals: Prepared, drafted, and prosecuted tax appeals before the Administrative Judiciary Courts and the Supreme Administrative Court in disputes valued at over 350 million EGP.

- Cassation Appeals: Drafting and filing of cassation appeals in civil, commercial, labor, and criminal matters, achieving influential judicial outcomes in major cases.

-Sports Law: Participated in the preparation of electoral appeals against an equestrian sports federation.

-Global Corporate Representation: Managed all labor-related judicial disputes for global tourism and hotel companies.

-State Facility Operations: Managed all labor disputes for a foreign company operating a major vital facility in the Egyptian state.

-White-Collar Crimes: Representation of numerous clients in complex criminal cases, successfully navigating all judicial procedures and achieving remarkable results in white collar crime matters.

Professional Vision.

Mr. Zaki Hassan Zaki’s professional approach is grounded in deep analytical assessment of disputes, the construction of comprehensive defense strategies, and the integration of judicial expertise with the ability to manage complex economic cases, thereby securing the best possible legal outcomes for his clients.

His professional approach is distinguished by blending legal rigor with negotiation flexibility, focusing on practical solutions that consider both the legal and economic dimensions of the dispute.

Graduate of the Faculty of Law – Ain Shams University – Class of 1999.