Address
5 Ibrahim Naguib Street, Garden City Cairo EGYPT Postcode : 11451
Phone Fax
+ 20 (0) 2 279 80 200
+ 20 (0) 2 279 45 836
E mail - WebSite
karim.hafez@hafeznet.com
www.hafeznet.com
Nationality
Egyptian
Education
He was educated in Cairo, Cambridge, and Harvard. His PhD, from Cambridge University, is for a dissertation entitled "Complex Arbitration".
Bar Admission
Experience as Arbitrator and/or Counsel in Arbitrations
He practices exclusively in the area of international commercial arbitration, where he has significant experience of most major institutional rules. As Counsel, he has represented state, state-owned entities, and private investors inb numerous large-value complex arbitrations, with an emphasis on investment, construction, power generation, and oil and gas disputes. As Arbitrator, he has been appointed to proceedings involving disputes spanning the commercial spectrum. He is a member of the Arbitration Court of London Court of International Arbitration; member of the Distinguished Panel of Neutrals of International Center for Dispute Resolution; member of the Energy Arbitrators' Panel of the American Arbitration Association; Board Adviser to the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration; member of the editorial board of the Global Arbitration Review; board member of the Arab Intellectual Property Mediation and Arbitration Society; coordinator of the Egyptian Arbitration Forum; and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
Present Position
Principal of Hafez Law firm in Cairo; Visiting Professor of Law at the American University in Cairo.
Publications
Languages
He is fluent in Arabic, English and French.
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