Litigation in which we are involved within Egypt often involves:
• International trade cases, cross-border business cases (including issues of jurisdiction, forum, governing law, and interpretation and application of treaty or foreign laws);
• Intellectual property cases (including injunctions, damage claims, interlocutory or provisional remedies, administrative litigation against decisions by the Patent Office);
• Labor cases (including individual employment cases involving alleged wrongful termination and damages claims, collective worker-management cases, Labor Relations Commission proceedings and administrative litigation relating to labor disputes, negotiations with labor unions and employers, visa related issues, sexual harassment, labor accidents);
• Financial transaction cases (including damage claims and unfair enrichment claims arising from swap and derivative transactions);
• Insolvency proceedings including acting on behalf of Bankruptcy trustees/administrators, and undertaking debt consolidation administrator matters;
• Corporate Insolvency and Bankruptcy cases (preference denial proceedings by bankruptcy trustees, petitions for determination of the scope of credits and collaterals which come under the corporate reconstruction plan, and claims relating to collateral valuation under the Civil Law);
• Tax cases (including appeal procedures against administrative decisions, and procedures seeking the revocation of administrative decisions);
• General commercial cases (including loan and other debt collection claims, rent review claims, petitions for injunctive remedies in defamation claims or undermined creditability claims, claims for removal from property and commercial non-litigation cases);
• Product liability cases, expert liability cases, representative shareholders actions against companies, representative resident actions against local governments, anti-monopoly cases, civil conciliations, petitions for civil preservation measures, petitions for enforcement measures, probation of estate in succession, defense advocacy in criminal proceedings, petitions for prosecution under the Criminal law of Egypt and other actions;
• Anti-trust law (including advising clients during investigative processes by regulators and defense of regulatory proceedings); and
• Real Property disputes involving enforcement of mortgages and other securities.