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Mr. Hazim Rizkana – Sharm El Sheikh VIII Conference
Conference Program

Mr. Hazim Rizkana

 

PRACTICE AREAS

    • Hazim A. Rizkana is the Managing Partner of Rizkana & Partners. Hazim focuses on litigation and arbitration, banking and finance, civil, commercial and private law, aircraft finance, mergers and acquisitions, securities, trademarks and Apart from assisting some of the biggest multinational companies execute high-value deals, he has also been called on to assist draft and review the new Banking Law, the Acquisition Rules under the Capital Market Law, the Mediation Law and the amendments to the Competition Law.
    • Hazim served as a member of several dispute resolution boards and has acted as an attorney in a number of ad hoc arbitrations and before the ICC and the Cairo Regional Centre. He assisted in arbitration before the Sugar Association in London and in an arbitration on behalf of the Egyptian Government at the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in Paris. Hazim also acted as Chairman and Co-Arbitrator in a number of local and international arbitrations under the CRCICA, ICC and
    • Before establishing Rizkana & Partners, Hazim spent 28 years with an international law firm, and spent several years as counsel for two of the largest banks in Hazim worked in the international law firm’s Riyadh Office for three years. He used to head the Dispute Resolution, Aviation and IP Practices and co-sharing the Banking and Finance Practice of the firm’s Cairo office.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS

    • Registered arbitrator with the Cairo Regional Center for International Commercial Arbitration “CRCICA”;
    • Registered arbitrator with the Dubai International Arbitration Centre “DIAC”;
    • Authorized Mediator of “CEDR”;
    • Founding member of the Aviation-Education, Resource & Information for African Lawyers (“AERIAL“); and
    • Founding member of the Association for the Protection of Competition in Egypt (“AFPOC“).
    • Member of The International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (“AIPPI”) and the Secretary of he Egyptian Association for Protection of Industrial Property (“AEPPI”).

AWARDS & RANKINGS

    • Received Chambers and Partners Ranking in both Dispute Resolution Litigation and Dispute Resolution Arbitration for 2021;
    • Mergers & Acquisitions Lawyer of the Year – Egypt, FINANCE MONTHLY’s M&A Awards – 2019;

EDUCATION & ADMISSION

Hazim Rizkana graduated from Zagazig University in 1982 with a B.A. in law and received a Master of Law degree from the McGeorge School of Law (UOP) in 1986. He was admitted to the Egyptian Bar Association in 1982 and is currently admitted before the Court of Cassation in Egypt. In 1985 Hazim was registered as a patent and trademark agent.

LANGUAGES

Arabic and English