Profile

Dr. Mohamed S. Abdel Wahab is a founding partner and head of the Firm's International Arbitration and Project Finance Department. He regularly acts as counsel and arbitrator in many ad hoc and institutional arbitrations spanning the commercial spectrum. He also regularly represents governmental entities, project sponsors, and project lenders in negotiating and closing multi-million dollars project finance deals. Together with a team of specialists at the Firm, he has efficiently closed the first successful PPP project in Egypt in 2010.

He is the author and co-author of many monographs and articles in learned international journals on arbitration, conflict of laws, online dispute resolution, contract drafting, and e-commerce. He is an assistant professor of Law at Cairo University, and holds visiting posts in the UK and USA. He is also an adjunct professor of international commercial arbitration and faculty coordinator for the Indiana University - Indianapolis LL.M. in Business and Comparative Law in Cairo.

Dr. Abdel Wahab is recognized as one of Egypt's leading arbitration and project finance practitioners. He possesses extensive expertise in international arbitration, private international law, IT law, online dispute resolution, hotel management and FIDIC contracts. Dr. Abdel Wahab works in Arabic, English, and French, and has read law at Cairo University (Egypt), Manchester University (UK), Oxford University (UK), and King's College (UK).