am law firm profile
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Contents :
Am Law Firm .................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 02
Philosophy .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 02
Vision .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 03
Mission .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 03
History ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 04
Quality ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 05
Social Responsibility ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 06
Areas Of Practise .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 07
Founders ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 12
Our Clients .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 14
Contact Us .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 19
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AM LAW FIRM :
AM Law Firm is one of the growing law firms in Egypt, that helped clients achieve their goals by combining the
highest global standards with local expertise.
AM Law Firm provides legal advising and solutions to meet the most stringent needs of customers through
dedication and innovation. We are dedicated to increasing our clients’ productivity using our knowledge and
expertise while acting as their “behind the scene employees”.
AM Law Firm philosophy is to concentrate on solutions, rather than problems, and to provide practical advice
and reasonable alternatives.
AM Law Firm always succeeds in understanding its clients and the nature of their operation which we believe
our clients value these qualities, just as we value clients who desire to form long-term relationships.
AM Law Firm prides itself on its ability to be accessible on short notice, respond to a broad spectrum of legal
needs, and to care about its clients as individuals.
PHILOSOPHY :
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VISION :
MISSION :
To be the market’s best business law firm in MENA region by consistently providing smarter, more concrete
solutions and to provide the highest caliber of comprehensive, high quality, state of the art legal services
expected.
Our strong commitment to legal excellence and to our clients makes us a firm of choice for clients with challenging
and legal problems. We excel in our relation with our clients that it reaches the partnership level. We will strive
to incorporate new practice areas and opportunities so that AM Law Firm can continue to adapt to the growing
and ever-changing needs of our clients.
Based on our national belief and responsibility towards our beloved country, we are trying to participate in
improving the Egyptian national economy by professionally performing our legal duties to the companies which
will boost companies to perform their investment legal roles perfectly.
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HISTORY :we began in 2009 as two founders and by following our philosophy, values, and principals, we succeeded in
positioning our Firm as one of the promising and growing law firms in Egypt and in the Middle East.
2011 was a very critical year because of the eruption of the Egyptian Revolution as well as the internal and
external challenges. But despite of all these, we took good decisions, accurately chose our clients and enhanced
our performance, we were able to overcome the crises of 2011 as well as increasing the number of cases which
in turn increased our experience and the number of our staff.
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QUALITY :AM Law Firm maintains the good reputation among our clients and promotes the Firm’s positive image among
potential new clients; by making use of the latest technologies and modern work methods, we provide high-
quality services to our clients; and by closely following the changes in the client’s needs and requirements, we
guarantee that our clients will be completely satisfied with our work.
The partners offer their long and varied experience in counselling and litigation for foreign companies represented
through subsidiary companies in Egypt. Furthermore, they have been providing advice to foreign trade agencies
for a long period of time.
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Social Responsibility Lies at the Core of our Mission :AM Law Firm aims at addressing social problems which negatively affects our society. Driven by our responsibility
towards the society, AM Law Firm took the lead to participate in the UN Global Compact Program (UNGC) to
enforce the principals of human rights, labor, anticorruption and environment. Due to our effective participation,
we have become the legal advisors of the UNGC Program.
Since we were founded with set specific goals ahead of us and those goals included ways to support our society,
accordingly, we started our Probono System by dedicating free monthly hours for social service.
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AREAS OF PRACTICE :The foremost objective of AM Law Firm is to utmost customization of legal solutions with wide-reaching
perception & to provide best legal assistance to their clients. Our grand expertise that spans over six years in all
practice areas to which enables us to provide a sustainable top-quality legal service provider to a wide varieties
of foreign trade agencies, multinational companies, and institutions and to continue with our expansion with
steady steps.Our areas of practice include:
Litigation:
Our litigation team of attorneys, counselors, and legal experts
has successfully represented our corporate clients before
Egyptian courts of law of all levels. Our team members
work strenuously and meticulously to resolve our clients’ disputes
timely. Our service in this field extends from counsels, legal advice,
representation before court, and management of clients’ official
documents and paperwork at the different Egyptian government
agencies.
Arbitration:
We noted for our leading expertise in international
arbitration, and such forms of dispute resolutions. Our
arbitration team has aboard a group of professional
arbitrators and mediators who have handled several international
arbitration cases over commercial disputes for different clients
including foreign investors. We are backed by an experienced
arbitration team whose years of practice cover international
litigation and enforcement laws, legal proceedings and arbitration
proceedings and mediation.
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AREAS OF PRACTICE :
Oil and Gas:
We take pride in providing legal services in the oil and gas
sector in Egypt. We serve large oil and gas companies,
including foreign investors. Our experienced attorneys in
the oil and gas field carry out proceedings that cover drafting and
negotiating gas-related agreements, gas sale agreements, licensing
operations are highly informed with the EGPC regulations and
limitations. Our Firm also provides legal assistance to new bidders
wishing to enter into the oil and gas market; by assisting these
bidders in submitting the bidding documents to (EGPC or EGAS).Our
services facilitate concessions and licensing for foreign investment
operations.
Corporate Disputes:
We provide a broad array of corporate legal services to
a divergent client base, ranging from start-up ventures
to large multinational companies. We offer our clients a
full range of corporate and business legal services, including advice
(strategic and legal), pre-contract negotiation, drafting, advising
on documents for establishing companies, subsidiaries and to give
corporate advice on day to day matters, organizing and attending
Board and Shareholders meetings and drafting and certifying
minutes of meetings, and obtaining official authorizations and
licenses.
Intellectual Property (IP):
The majority of our clients are market leaders in innovation;
hence, they need to document their patent rights. We carry
the transactions of a wide variety of disputes regarding
Intellectual property and provide pre-dispute consultations as well
as general, coordinated IP program structuring. Our services in IP
also include registration, enforcement and protection of intellectual
property, due diligence investigations, dispute resolutions and
drafting assignments and licensing agreements.
Mergers and Acquisition:
We have been involved in high-level transactions regarding
mergers and acquisitions of companies of different types.
In many of the cases we handled, we started from scratch
beginning due diligence appraisals. Our services cover stakeholders,
holding companies, shareholder agreements, securities, corporate
governance, contracts and banking transactions.
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AREAS OF PRACTICE :
Banking and Financial Institutions:
We support major financial and banking institutions in
credit transactions on the local and international levels.
We also provide legal advice in project finance, loan
syndications, letters of credit and guarantee, mortgages, pledges
and securities. We review tender documents, draft contracts and
carry out government-related transactions and such other complex
operations.
Labor and Employment:
Labor and employment laws hold up a large part of the
Egyptian employees/employer’s life and work. For that
reason, we offer legal services as per the appropriate
Egyptian laws which help draft and protect employee agreements,
employee handbooks and personnel policies. We provide legal
advice on collective redundancies, employee termination as well
as litigation and dispute resolution services. We promote the more
cost effective Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) system, through
which alternative ways to end the labor/employment disputes by
means of negotiations instead of courts of law.
Manufacturing:
The field of manufacturing and heavy industry has been
growing fast in Egypt. Our team’s experience in the field
covers light and heavy industries of all types. We have gained
experience in negotiating and drafting contracts, such as licensing,
franchise, assistance and supply agreements to major companies in
the sector.
Projects and Infra Structure:
We handle the drafting, auditing and negotiation of local
and international project agreements in energy, water,
petroleum, natural gas, telecommunication and IT.
We provide litigation and arbitration services with all related
proceedings (including the enforcement of policies and statutes)
to ensure that our clients projects are proceeding smoothly by
carrying out all the complex transactions on their behalf.
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AREAS OF PRACTICE :
Taxation:
We offer extensive legal service in matters related to tax
as per the Egyptian laws and the Egyptian Tax Authority
and its registry offices. We help keep our clients with
their tax statements and all tax-related transactions.
Real Estate and Construction:
Our experience in litigation, arbitration and legal drafting
becomes handy in real estate and construction projects.
Our service in the field covers ownership, construction, use
of land and buildings, property development, sales, acquisitions,
leases, taxation, bankruptcy, privatization and entity formation,
among others.
Commercial agencies and Distribution :
We offer our clients a wide range of legal services that
involve advice on pre-contract negotiations, drafting and
reviewing commercial agency, distribution and franchises
agreements and advice for establishing companies, branches, or
subsidiaries and obtaining official authorizations and licenses.
Telecom and IT:
The telecom and IT sector in Egypt is given special attention by
the Egyptian authorities. So now with almost all businesses
and government bodies shifting towards transactions carried
online as well as e-commerce, we have developed an experience
in the field and on the laws and regulations that govern the
telecommunications sector in Egypt. The telecom surge has brought
upon some issues and disputes that require legal attention, and
hence we offer advice on e-signatures, e-commerce, licensing as
well as acquisition and transfer of shares in telecom projects.
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AREAS OF PRACTICE :Tourism and Travel Services:
We provide legal advice to our clients in the hotel and
tourism sector. Our services include the drafting of
franchise agreements and hotel-related contracts, and
the acquisition of licenses for hotels and resorts. We have acquired
experience in settling hotel/tourism-related disputes whether
through litigation or Alternative Dispute Resolution.
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Founders :As an attorney at law, Dr. Abdallah’s 15 years of experience cover the fields of
Corporate and Business Law, Commercial Law, Civil and Adminstrative Litigations
in multiple areas, as well as Arbitration. He specializes in general corporate work
including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, commercial contracts, private
equities, concessions, and oil and gas businesses. As the Managing Partner of
AM Law Firm, Dr. Abdallah has represented several major local and international
firms in different types of lawsuits. He has provided legal advise based on his
experience, vision, and education to multiple Egyptian and foreign clients.
Upon admittance to the Egyptian Bar Association in 2000, Dr. Abdallah took a particular
interest in human rights, legal profession as a social responsibility, and International
anti-corruption initiatives. Dr. Abdallah is a member of the International Union of
Lawyers (UIA), UN Global Compact, Arab Lawyers Union (ALU).
Dr. Abdallah’s extensive education in law assists him in the cases he undertakes. He is a
holder of a PhD degree from the University of South California. He studied Islamic Law
and Private Law at Ain Shams University, and earned a degree in Intellectual Property
from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
Ayman Abdallah, PhD Founder & Managing Partner
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Founders :Consultant / Abdullah Mohammed Gomaa, Attorney at Law before Court of Cassation,
Administrative Court and Supreme Constitutional Court Co-partner and senior consultant
in AM Law Firm. 40 years of experience in law and legal consultation business. Graduate of
Faculty of Law, Ain Shams University .Speaks both Arabic and English.
Postgraduate studies in legal field in addition to three undergraduate academic degrees
from prominent Egyptian universities. He worked as consultant and head of litigation
and arbitration department in the Firm, and has contributed significantly to obtaining
judgments in favor of our clients. Through his legal efforts and experience, he also
contributed to enabling Firm to obtain advanced position among law firms in Egypt. His
attendance and pleadings before courts and arbitration centers (in judicial and arbitration
cases) had great impact towards relief of our clients.
Fields of Specialization: Civil, commercial, administrative, personal cases for foreigners as
well as drafting international contracts and significant contracting agreements.
He has worked also as consultant for many financial and investment entities and has
supervised and followed all lawsuits regarding their investments whether inside the
country or abroad.
Abdullah Mohammed Gomaa
Co-partner and senior consultant
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Contact Us :
Tel. :(+202) 22707363
Tel. :(+202) 22707335
Fax :(+202) 22707352
Mobile1 :(+202) 010 999 90074
Mobile2 :(+202) 010 000 47368
Mobile3 :(+202) 010 122 43424
Postal Code :(11391)
Website : www.amlawfirm-egypt.com
E-Mail : info@amlawfirm-egypt.com
Address :City Light Tower A3, Third Floor, Office No.303, 1 Makram Ebeid Street, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt.
Although we are located in Egypt, we provide professional services as if we were next door. If you have a need for legal advising and solutions services in a location outside Egypt, please contact us, we would love to exceed yourexpectations!
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