Mr. Tewfik G. Shehata

Tewfik G. Shehata has more than 36 years of experience advising and representing local and international clients through previous work in the offices of Al Kamel Law Office, Dentons’ Cairo office, and for 14 years with Zaki Hashem & Partners where he was a senior partner and headed the Arbitration Department of the firm before opening his own law firm in 2016 when he founded the law firm SHEHATA, Attorneys at Law.
He handled several local and international commercial arbitrations involving both public and private entities under most major arbitration centers, including the ICC, SCC, LCIA, LMAA, CRCICA, and DIS.
During his career, he acted as counsel, sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator, and presiding arbitrator in more than 75 ad hoc and institutional arbitrations. In addition to arbitration, he has an extensive experience in corporate law, banking, and project finance, as well as in other fields of commercial, civil, labor law, and litigations.
He is a member of the Egyptian Bar Association (since 1986), admitted before the Court of Cassation (since 2004), a Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators – FCIArb (since 2001), a member of the LCIA Users’ Councils (since 2011), a member of the Egyptian Society for International Law and a Long-Standing Member of the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt.
He has a Bachelor of Law (LL.B.) degree from the Faculty of Law of the University of Ain Shams, Cairo, Egypt (1985) and a Masters Degree (LL.M.) in International Business Law from the Institut de Droit des Affaires Internationales (IDAI) of the University of Cairo and Paris I (Panthéon – Sorbonne) (1991). He has also studied “Taxation” (1998) and “Advanced Taxation” (2001) at the Center for Adult & Continuing Education of the American University in Cairo.
He speaks and writes fluently in Arabic, English, and French.