Previous Work

Our Clients

  • Providing consulting services in drafting and review International Investment Agreements (IIAs).
  • Revising and analysis Bilateral Investment Treaties BITs in Arab and African countries.
  • Contributing in UNCTAD’s project on analyzing key provisions in International Investment Agreements (IIAs) and their economic implications on host States.
  • Contributing in analysis of Bilateral Investment Treaties in the Arab, African countries.
  • Preparing comprehensive legal and economic study on IIAs with a view to identifying best practices in international investment policy-making the report provided policy options for countries to enhance their right to regulate investment for the public interest.

law and policy

Experience, International investment

(A)Drafting and revising of International Agreements, protocols and memoranda of understanding (MOUs)

  • Providing consulting services in drafting and review International Investment Agreements (IIAs), protocols and Investment chapter in Free Trade Agreement (FTA) -conducting analyses on international investment agreements.
  • Providing technical notes in international arbitration cases based on Investor-State Disputes Settlement ISDS provisions included in International Investment Agreements (IIAs).

(B) National investment laws

  • Participate in drafting and revising the Pan-African Investment Code, African Union.
  • Participate in revising and Drafting the Egyptian Investment Law No 72, 2017

Researches

  • Conduct studies on International Investment Agreements (IIAs)
  • Study on the legal nature of the draft Pan- African investment code and its relationship with international investment agreements .This study was published by South Center in Geneva, https://www.southcentre.int/investment-policy-brief-9-july-2017/
  • Study on “the most important amendments of the Unified Agreement for Investment of Arab Capital in the Arab states (1981)”, August 2016.
  • Preparing a study on “the new draft of the Egyptian Investment Law”, September 2016.
  • Study on the “Draft Framework Convention on economic, trade, investment and technical cooperation between the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa Cooperation (COMESA) and the Government of the People’s Republic of China”, March 2016.
  • Study on the protocol of “The African Union of Free Zones” between the free zones in African countries, January 2016.
  • study on the “Statement of principles for international investment” which the United States announced in conjunction with the EU in April 2012.

(B) Conduct studies on international investment disputes as well as international arbitration cases

  • Study on “modern international trends and mechanisms for Settlement of Investment Disputes”, during July 2016.
  • Study on the United Nations Convention on Transparency in Treaty-based Investor-State Arbitration, that was signed on March 17, 2015 in Port Louis, Mauritius, May 2015.
  • Study on the light of international investment agreements to the issue of International Arbitration filed by the Qatari Al-Jazeera network against the Egyptian government before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), August 2014.
  • Study on revising the convention of the settlement of investment disputes in the Arab countries approved of the Arab Economic Unity Council, April 2012.