Gelsenwasser AG
Gelsenwasser AG
Algeria
Start and End Date
October 9, 2012 - February 27, 2015
Treaty Type
BIT
Sector
Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities
Case Decision
Discontinued
Arbitration Center
ICSID
Representative of the Respondent
Ministre des Ressources en Eau, Kouba, Algeria
Shearman & Sterling, Paris, France
Representative of the Claimant
Leboulanger & Associes, Paris, France
Amount Claimed
23.00 mln USD
Amount Given to Arbitrators
Material Unavailable
Legal Fees of Respondent
Material Unavailable
Legal Fees of Claimant
Material Unavailable
Total Legal Fees
Material Unavailable
Administrative Fees
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AL TAMIMI & CO.
Law Firms
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Egypt office
Al Tamimi & Company is the largest law firm in the Middle East with 17 offices across 9 countries. The firm has unrivalled experience, having operated in the region for over 25 years. Our lawyers combine international experience and qualifications with expert regional knowledge and understanding.
We are a full-service firm, specialising in advising and supporting major international corporations, banks and financial institutions, government organisations and local, regional and international companies. Our main areas of expertise include arbitration & litigation, banking & finance, corporate & commercial, intellectual property, real estate, construction & infrastructure, and technology, media & telecommunications. Our lawyers provide quality legal advice and support to clients across all of our practice areas.
Our business and regional footprint continues to grow, and we seek to expand further in line with our commitment to meet the needs of clients doing business across the Middle East.
Our Egypt Offering
We believe that Egypt will move into new frontiers that we are keen to be part of and support in Middle East & Africa.
Our confidence in Egypt’s future is based on numerous factors, including the projects that have been completed over the past two years. Furthermore, a number of international credit rating agencies have taken a favourable view of Egypt’s economic outlook in parallel to the significant investment appetite internationally.
Our Egypt practice* is well positioned to assist in meeting the legal needs derived from this potential, and to being part of the ambitions to restore Egypt’s economic competiveness by assisting the gradual structural reforms necessary to deliver this economic potential.
We will support the development of all initiatives undertaken in the “New Egypt” by providing a new age of legal services addressing the developing needs of Egypt. Our strategy will focus on supporting Egypt’s needs of building and maintaining sustainable economic growth using the capabilities of its population, of which youth and women represent the majority. We see major opportunities in numerous fields including governance, mega infrastructure projects including the Suez Canal development projects, free and economic zones, PPP projects, capital markets, banking and finance, hospitality, industrial, sports, media, tax law and dispute settlement.
Lawyers
ABDULLAH EL NOKALY
AHMED KOTB
CHAHIRA BACHA
DR. HASSAN ARAB
DR. KHALED ATTIA
SALMA KEBEICH
THOMAS SNIDER
Contact
+20 2 3368 1000
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Star Capital Tower
5 Geziret El Arab Street,
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Postal Code 12654, Agouza
12654
Mohandseen, Giza
Egypt
Salma Kebeich
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Al Tamimi & Co.
Salma Kebeich is an Associate in the Dispute Resolution practice in Cairo office.
Ms. Kebeich specializes in international commercial arbitration, investment arbitration and litigation. Between Egypt, France and Canada Ms. Kebeich has diversified her experience in international commercial arbitration and Investor-State cases. She worked in arbitration cases under various arbitration rules and institutions including CRCICA, ICC and UNCITRAL in different practice areas. She advises clients on commercial, criminal and administrative disputes.
In addition to her selection as the first Egyptian to participate in the International Internship “Stage International du Barreau de Paris” conducted by Paris Bar Association she holds a certificate entitling her to enroll at the Canadian Bar Association.
Ms. Kebeich is also a visiting lecturer at L’université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne located in Cairo university.
Dr. Khalid Attia
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Al Tamimi & Co.
Dr. Khaled Attia is a Partner and Head of Dispute Resolution Group in Cairo Office. Khaled has over 23 years of experience in the legal field. He is a registered arbitrator in the Cairo Regional Center for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA), the Dubai International Arbitration Center (DIAC) and the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA). He is also a registered mediator at the Investment Dispute Resolution Center in the General Authority for Investment and Free Zones in Egypt (GAFI).
Prior to joining Al Tamimi, Khaled was in the private practice since February 2010 as a Partner responsible for Arbitration Department, the Public Private Partnership (PPP) and Competition matters.
Before starting his private practice, Khaled was the Executive Director of the Egyptian Competition Authority. He assumed office in January 2006 until January 2010. Khaled was also a Commissioner in the COMESA Competition Commission until December 2010.
From the year 2000 throughout 2006, Khaled had worked as a Chief Prosecutor in the Office of the Prosecutor General of Egypt, Office for International Cooperation. During that time he worked as a part time Legal Advisor to the Minister of Trade (2000-2004) and to the Minister of Finance (2004-2006). He participated in the drafting of several laws and regulations such as the Specialized Economic Zones Law, the Competition law and its Executive Regulations, the PPP law and its Executive Regulations, the Income Tax Law and the Micro Small and Small Enterprises Law.
Khaled obtained his PhD in 2005 from Ain Shams University and an LLM in 1999 from University of Essex, UK. He is also a visiting professor on International Business Law at Nile University.
Dr. Hassan Arab
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Al Tamimi & Co.
Dr. Arab is a leading expert in all aspects of civil and commercial litigation, arbitration, ADR, recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards.
He has spent his career building one of the strongest litigation teams in the Middle East which Legal 500 has recognised as “having a great reputation for local court work with a number of really good practitioners”.
Chambers Global has commended Dr. Arab as a “real winner who gives excellent advice and solutions”. He has been recognised as a leading litigator and arbitrator in the field. He is also listed in the prestigious category of Arbitration Future Leaders 2017 by Who’s Who Legal.
Dr. Arab’s doctoral thesis is titled “Critical Study of the Concept of International Arbitration in the UAE: Identifying Problems Affecting the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign and International Arbitral Awards”.
Dr. Arab has co-edited the first and second edition of the ICC publication “Summaries of UAE Courts’ Decisions on Arbitration”.
Chahira Bacha
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Al Tamimi & Co.
Chahira is an associate in the firm’s dispute resolution team. She is qualified to practice in Egypt. She has experience in advising on Arbitration and Litigation matters in Egypt and in France. Chahira developed her experience working on complex litigious issues spanning the civil and commercial spectrum before the French courts. She has worked on a number of arbitration cases under various arbitration rules and institutions including CRCICA, ICC and Swiss Chambers Arbitration Institution in different practice areas. Chahira was selected as an Assistant Teacher in the Civil Procedure Department, Faculty of Law at Cairo University. She is qualified to enrol with the French Bar Association.
Ahmed Kotb
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Al Tamimi & Co.
Ahmed is an experienced arbitration and litigation practitioner at the firm’s dispute resolution team. He started his career as a Public Prosecutor in Egypt before moving into the arbitration team of a leading law firm in Cairo. Ahmed actively represents clients in arbitration cases within the firm’s dispute resolution team under numerous arbitration institutions including those of the ICC, the SCAI and the CRCICA. He also acts for clients in parallel court proceedings as well as in enforcement and annulment of arbitral awards. He further advises clients on commercial, criminal and administrative issues related to their businesses. His advice and representation cover a wide array of industries.
Ahmed is also a visiting lecturer at the French Section of the Faculty of Law at Ain Shams University and the Faculty of Law at the British University in Egypt where he teaches commercial law and introduction to legal studies.
Abdullah El Nokaly
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Al Tamimi & Co.
Abdullah El Nokaly is an Associate in the Litigation practice in Egypt.
Abdallah is a qualified lawyer who holds a Masters degree in International and European Business Law from Université Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne.
Abdallah has a particular interest in Egyptian judicial courts, and commercial arbitration, as well as experience in civil, commercial and criminal law. He is experienced in initiating judicial cases, executing Egyptian and foreign arbitral awards and drafting and reviewing civil and commercial agreements.
Shaheda Peeroo
Lawyers
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Chambers of A.R.M.A. Peeroo SC GOSK
Mauritius
Shaheda is a member of the Administrative Tribunal of the African Union in Addis Ababa.
She recently retired from the Supreme Court of Mauritius as the most senior of the “Designated Judges” specialised for international arbitration matters, after having delivered judgments in a number of landmark cases, including Cruz City v Unitech Limited [Yearbook Com. Arb. 2014 (Vol 39) 447] and UBS v MCB [2016 SCJ 43].
The Cruz City judgment was nominated by the Global Arbitration Review (GAR) for an award as “the most important published decision of 2014 for jurisprudential or other reasons”.
Shaheda accepts arbitrator appointments and acts a consultant.
Jamsheed Peeroo
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Chambers of A.R.M.A. Peeroo SC GOSK
Mauritius, England and Wales
Jamsheed has been a member of the Bar of England and Wales since 2002 and a member of the Mauritian Bar since 2006. He is fully bilingual in English and French and splits his time between London and Mauritius.
He holds an LLM in International Business Law from the University of London and a DEA in Private International Law and International Commerce as well as a PhD in International Arbitration Law from the Sorbonne Law School (University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne).
Jamsheed was trained at the leading commercial, banking and finance set, 3 Verulam Buildings, in London and in the International Arbitration Group of the magic-circle international law firm, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, in Paris.
He has taught the civil law of contract and tort at the Sorbonne Law School, has worked as a Junior Research Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and has taught arbitration law in the Mauritian Law Practitioner’s Vocational Course.
He is a member of the ICC Task Force on the enforcement of foreign arbitral awards and Vice-President of the MARC Advisory Board and member of the MARC Arbtiration Rules Drafting Committee.
As a barrister at Peeroo Chambers, Jamsheed has worked on numerous high-profile matters, often relating to or within the African continent, in various sectors and areas including infrastructure financing and building, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, technology products, E-commerce, energy and petroleum derivatives.
Jamsheed is familiar with most leading international arbitration rules and heads the International Arbitration section of Peeroo Chambers.
Recognitions:
Legal 500 (2018): “arbitration head Jamsheed Peeroo [is] highly regarded”
Legal 500 (2017): “knowledgeable”, “recommended”
Legal 500 (2016): “The ‘first-rate’ Jamsheed Peeroo is acting for Hewlett-Packard in a transactional dispute.”
Chambers and Partners Global (2015): “recognised for his international arbitration expertise”.
