THE ERA OF MEDIATION Panel

Powered By AMC – Arab Mediation Center in affiliation with JAMS International

Brief on AMC and JAMS

· In Cooperation and Affiliation with JAMS International, AMC’s vision is to lead the mediation industry in all Arab countries through setting the highest standards in accordance to which all mediation services will be measured. You shall resort to the Arab Mediation Center whenever you are seeking to resolve disputes in an efficient and satisfactory manner, when the stakes are high, the disputed matter is complex and the parties appear unyielding. AMC’s headquarters is in Cairo, Egypt. This is where they will be managing all the remaining branches in the Arab world.

·  JAMS International offers the highest quality arbitration, mediation and other dispute resolution services through its headquarters in London, and through a network of affiliates located throughout the world. JAMS International’s neutrals are active across a broad spectrum of ADR products, and are adept at designing bespoke hybrid services as required for those who want a more efficient and enforceable method to resolve disputes than the local courts. In an increasingly global world, JAMS International helps companies and law firms control risk, minimize costs and resolve problems effectively and quickly. JAMS International helps meet a worldwide need for highly respected panelists, efficient case management and cost-effective ADR services.

· The Arab Mediation Center is also cooperating with Strathclyde University Law School Established in 1964, it is a leading, research-led UK law school based in the heart of Glasgow, with an emphasis on innovative routes to study and experiential learning. they offer professional legal education programmes to equip students for practice in Scotland as well as in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and a suite of post graduate programmes of value to home and overseas students.

 Legal Technologies Panel Sponsored By United Ofoq.

Recent studies showed that all industries are automated by smart IT solutions except for the Legal sector. Considering the significant role of the legal field,

their technical, harsh and risky nature ; The ‘Legal Management System (OLMS)’ is automating and is definitely solving all the pitfalls of the legal process.

United OFOQ is presenting for the first time in Egypt, the only LEGAL IT smart solution system; ‘OFOQ Legal Management System (OLMS)’

The OLMS Application will coordinate the internal communication, automate the time and legal departments resources, manage the overdue dates of appeals and keeps your department on track.

It is also capable of calculating all the notice periods and dates of appealing. Leave all the data resourcing and paperwork to OLMS; It can find answers that are locked away into millions of files
and data and gives you time to focus more on your clients.

The Legal Management system OLMS is dynamically secured and designed to assist and aid the lawyers in all aspects ensuring safe and high qualitative results.

About United OFOQ:

United OFOQ corp is a professional and dynamic shareholder company that is dedicated to provide its customers with leading edge business solutions for
various industry segments since 1997, satisfying their precise needs and meeting their goals. Their services span the life of your applications,
from technology and strategy consulting all the way to management, maintenance, and support.

ERP :
ORACLE’s JD Edwards ERP suite sales &services.

ORACALE’s NetSuite sales & services

HRMS:

OFOQ Talent Management Solution (OTMS), A localized, OFOQ Developed HRMS.

 MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS  Workshop Powered By  TMS Law firm.

Taha, Moussa & Sabahi Law Firm (“TMS Law Firm”), is a full -service law firm with its offices located in Cairo, Egypt. 
TMS Law Firm caters for the wide spectrum of legal needs of multinational, regional and local corporations and high net-worth individuals. 
TMS Law Firm partners and associates have the understanding and knowledge of the business and operational needs of their clients.

Their practices vary from Mergers and Acquisitions, Litigation , TMT, Real estate , Compliance and legalities , Arbitration and dispute resolution , Corporate & Commercial and Employment.

Contracts Drafting Workshop Powered By Hegazy Law Firm

Overview 

Hegazy & Partners in cooperation with Crowell & Moring is a Cairo-based international law firm providing a broad range of legal services to a diverse Egyptian, regional and international clientele. Our main practice areas include domestic and cross-border corporate transactions, banking and finance, government contracts and international litigation and arbitration. Our experience enables us to understand the concerns of our international clients and allows us to offer legal solutions that not only meet their objectives at the local level, but also meet their regional or global aspirations. The firm is also internationally recognized as one of the leading firms in Islamic finance.

Our lawyers make it a point to learn about a client’s priorities, concerns and business in order to carefully tailor our advice for each client, so as to most effectively and efficiently achieve its goals. Relying on our knowledge, together with our exceptional skills and extensive experience, we are able to anticipate the likely moves and responses of government agencies and other relevant parties and assist our clients in their strategic planning to successfully manage the outcome, whether it is at the international, regional or national level.

The Introduction To Meditation Workshop

Powered By AMC – Arab Mediation Center in affiliation with JAMS International

Brief on AMC and JAMS

· In Cooperation and Affiliation with JAMS International, AMC’s vision is to lead the mediation industry in all Arab countries through setting the highest standards in accordance to which all mediation services will be measured. You shall resort to the Arab Mediation Center whenever you are seeking to resolve disputes in an efficient and satisfactory manner, when the stakes are high, the disputed matter is complex and the parties appear unyielding. AMC’s headquarters is in Cairo, Egypt. This is where they will be managing all the remaining branches in the Arab world.

·  JAMS International offers the highest quality arbitration, mediation and other dispute resolution services through its headquarters in London, and through a network of affiliates located throughout the world. JAMS International’s neutrals are active across a broad spectrum of ADR products, and are adept at designing bespoke hybrid services as required for those who want a more efficient and enforceable method to resolve disputes than the local courts. In an increasingly global world, JAMS International helps companies and law firms control risk, minimize costs and resolve problems effectively and quickly. JAMS International helps meet a worldwide need for highly respected panelists, efficient case management and cost-effective ADR services.

· The Arab Mediation Center is also cooperating with Strathclyde University Law School Established in 1964, it is a leading, research-led UK law school based in the heart of Glasgow, with an emphasis on innovative routes to study and experiential learning. they offer professional legal education programmes to equip students for practice in Scotland as well as in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and a suite of post graduate programmes of value to home and overseas students.

Trademarks and Domain Names Workshop Powered By Eldib&Co Law Firms 

Brief on Eldib & Co 

With offices across North Africa in Cairo, Alexandria and Tripoli, Eldib & Co is a global law firm with Egyptian roots. The firm’s century old success is evident and today it still operates with the dynamism of a start-up, pioneering innovation in all of its practices and maintaining its leadership both locally and internationally. From our headquarters in Cairo we work with clients who have interests across the globe and see through their needs wherever they are. We leverage on our strong network of high profile affiliations to ensure our clients’ receive the highest quality of legal support.

 OIL & GAS CONCESSIONS Workshop Powerd By Sharkawy& Sarhan 

Sharkawy & Sarhan have acted on some of the largest and most complex transactions in the Egyptian market. As an independent law firm, we work together with the leading international law firms, which do not have presence in Egypt, to represent clients in trans-border transactions and matters. We are the best friend firm for most of the Magic Circle and Silver Circle firms. Through our excellent working relationships with leading international law firms, we provide seamlessly an integrated legal service to international clients. This is facilitated by the fact that many of our lawyers have worked at international law firms and had foreign legal training and education.

We act as Egyptian legal counsel to major companies including Accenture, Air Liquide, Amazon, Amgen, Barclays, BG, DuPont, EFG-Hermes, Galileo, GE, Google, Huntsman, KUFPEC, Majid Al Futtaim Properties, Nestle, Nomac, Norgine, Orange, Rapiscan, RWE, Tesco, and WPP.

 Powered By RISC Legal Academy 

Instructor:

Dr.Ahmed Shabaan :

Head of Legal Translation Department @ El-Shlakany Law Office 

 Banking Lawyers workshop is hosted & powered by

Abdel Rehim Amr & Partners(ARA Law Firm)

ARA Law Firm is a qualified law firm operating in Egypt with more than thirty-five years of legal experience in the commercial field since 1978. ARA is in partnership with BMA Lawyers in Australia, and Lutah Law Firm in Dubai.

• The practice dealt with both national and international conferences through bilateral relations via a practice representative.
• The principal practitioner of the office Mr. Abdel Rehim Amr is considered to be an emergent member of the Arab lawyers union and Egyptian Organization for Human Rights.
• The Practice endorses Continual Professional development (CPD) of its staff and has participated in numerous cultural and training courses organized by the Egyptian Lawyers Syndicate, Arab Lawyers Union, Union of Banks and a number of other organizations, Our firm’s team enjoys a wealth of legal knowledge, qualifications and experience to provide legal advices and services in common law (e.g. English, Australian legal systems) and Civil Law (e.g. Egyptian Legal System), Moreover we can provide legal advice and services in three different languages Arabic, English and French.
• ARA Law Firm’s team has fluent English, French and Chinese languages’ ability (speak, read and write) and has the qualifications as well as, the experience in order to provide legal opinions, consultations and meetings’ attending in the three mentioned languages.
• ARA Law Firm has qualified lawyers are specialized in the banking services with respect to the companies law, central bank law and the special division for the collection department issues.

 The ‘Arbitration’ workshop is powered and hosted by Maatouk Bassiouny law firm.

Our firm is ideally placed to advise on high profile and high-value complex transactions and we routinely work on cross-border and international transactions. Our full-service capabilities are supported by five core practice groups:

• Corporate and M&A
• Finance and Projects
• Capital Markets
• Dispute Resolution

Our sector capability in Egypt combines the firm’s in-depth knowledge of the local markets with an understanding of our clients’ businesses. We take a proactive, commercial approach by assembling teams from our practice groups with deep experience in the following sectors:

• Consumer Goods & Retail
• Energy & Natural Resources
• Healthcare & Life Sciences
• Hospitality & Leisure
• Industrial Manufacturing
• Infrastructure & Transport
• Real Estate
• Services
• Telecommunications, Media & Technology

Public-Private Partnership workshop powered by

Tahoun Law Firm 

Tahoun Law Firm

The Firm was established in 1990 as a high quality Law Firm specializing in various litigation and arbitration matters. In 2009 , the Firm was restructured with a new vision of providing premium quality legal services to a broad base of multinational and regional clients.

As we quickly approach towardsa new decade the firm looks to go beyond opening doors, by working alongside our clients to help navigate challenging markets, solve problems and implement strategies to manage risk.

These standards are seen in the many successfully completed projects, major transactions, mergers and acquisitions executed in Egypt on behalf of sellers or buyers, as well as negotiating major concession contracts ( BOT, BOO, or PPP ) on behalf of the Egyptian Government or the private sector. The Firm has also successfullyreached settlements of major disputes between investors and government, as well as acting as a deal maker between different market players reachingagreements that left both sides in a win-win situation.

The Firm is proud to have won various awards in Legal Services provision such as “Awarded the best Oil and Gas Firm in Egypt for the Year 2014“ by “Worldwide Financial Advisor Awards Magazine” and the “Full Service Law Firm of the Year in Egypt“ by “Corporate International Magazine”.

Corporate Governance Workshop powered by

Levari in Association with Pitman

Levari in association with Pitmans is a full service international law firm based in Cairo, Egypt. Levari has the expert knowledge to help drive local and international businesses as well as the experience and the know-how to manage significant foreign investments and cross-border transactions.

In addition, Pitmans, our associate firm, is the largest commercial law firm headquartered in the South East of England. We have 32 partners and over 120 lawyers in our team based in Reading and the City of London. Levari is also a member of MI InterAct Limited and thus we are a part of a powerful international network of lawyers with offices in 17 European cities which enables us to offer an integrated service across Europe.

Associated Offices: Amsterdam, Antwerp, Barcelona, Belfast, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Egypt, Glasgow, Leipzig, Lisbon, Ljubljana, Madrid, Munich, Nicosia, Paris, Porto, Rome, and Zurich.