Dr. Haytham Ali

Dispute resolution is Haytham’s main expertise. He has profound knowledge and experience in various practice areas of dispute resolution including arbitration, litigation, and other alternative dispute resolution procedures. Haytham has arbitrated and litigated high-stake disputes covering a wide range of substantial commercial disputes, usually complex, commercially sensitive, and multi-national or of multi-party nature. His experience focuses on industrial and professional sectors with emphasis on telecommunications, distribution agreements, construction, hospitality, natural resources, international trade, shareholders disputes, and sports disputes. Haytham dedicates an important portion of his professional time to serving as chairperson, sole, and party-appointed arbitrator in disputes crossing the economic spectrum.

Haytham is regularly advising and representing individuals and companies on cross-board investigations and multijurisdictional proceedings related to economic sanctions, unfrozen funds, anti-corruption and money laundering matters. He has gained unparalleled experience in the field and has represented high public figures.

Haytham has gained invaluable first-hand experience in competition practices, with an emphasis on the private enforcement practices. He strategically and commercially advises multinational and domestic corporations in relation to competition and Anti-dumping issues. He provides claims handling assistance to in-house legal departments of leading corporations and business services groups.

Haytham is a Visiting Professor at University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne-Cairo Branch, where he teaches the Competition Law.

Haytham completed his studies of Law in Cairo, Paris and Montpellier Universities. He followed an Executive program in Business School of Chicago Booth. He admitted to practice by the Egyptian Bar Association. He practices in Arabic, English and French.