Youssef + Partners Arbitration Leaders

Youssef & Partners is a full-service, GAR 100 firm with a cosmopolitan and international outlook, exercising regional influence and delivering client services to truly global standards. The firm’s renowned flagship practice is international commercial and investment treaty arbitration, focusing on high-value claims. The firm is famous for its unparalleled multinational expertise, strong business sense, superior strategy, and remarkable track record of maximizing clients’ results. The firm also provides high-end transactional and corporate services to its clients across various critical industries, including construction, mega-projects, fin-tech, and structuring and restructuring transactions.

As Egypt and the MENA region’s premier international arbitration practice, the firm represents local and foreign investors in unquestionably some of the largest and most significant investment treaty cases and commercial claims involving Egyptian or MENA parties. We handle major local and international disputes and advise some of the world’s leading corporations and high-net worth families across the MENA region.

The firm’s global outreach is second to none in the region. We represent our clients in arbitral proceedings and disputes in four continents. Geographical boundaries are less relevant by the day. Clients should not have to suffer less than state-of-the-art lawyering and counsel services simply because they do business in emerging or foreign markets. The firm focuses on what matters most to clients: winning, and our reputation in the local and international markets is that we do.

Main areas of practice:
Youssef & Partners practice in the following areas:

• African practice
• Airports and airlines
• Arbitration
• Banking and finance
• Cement and steel
• City planning and master development
• Construction, real estate and development
• Corporate and M&A
• Dealership and distribution
• Energy and renewable energy
• Government contracts and disputes
• High-worth individuals
• Hotel management and hospitality
• Infrastructure, transport and road networks
• Litigation
• Logistics and supply train management
• Media and entertainment
• Mining
• Oil and gas
• Pharma and biotechnology
• Ports and sea ports
• Structuring and restructuring
• Technology and robotics
• Telecommunications
• Textiles and paper