Assem Al Hawy is the Founding Partner at Shield Advocates – Al Hawy & Hassane, based in Giza, Egypt. He leads the firm’s corporate department and plays a key role in guiding the firm’s corporate commercial legal services. His experience includes handling complex commercial arrangements and assisting clients in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a wide range of commercial contracts such as distribution and agency contracts, licensing agreements, toll manufacturing and supply agreements, and various operational and strategic business contracts. Since Shield Advocates was established in 2020, Assem Al Hawy has been instrumental in shaping its legal expertise and expanding its service offerings to meet the evolving needs of local and international clients doing business in Egypt and abroad.
Assem Al Hawy specializes in corporate law with a particular focus on labour law within the broader scope of Shield Advocates’ services. Under his leadership, the firm provides comprehensive advisory and consultative services in labour law, corporate governance, intellectual property rights, banking and finance, commercial advisory, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, real estate, and dispute resolution. His practice concentrates on delivering effective legal solutions in labour-related matters and corporate commercial arrangements. Shield Advocates is recognized for catering to multinational, regional, and local corporations, investors, and business entrepreneurs, aiming to manage legal and compliance risks across various commercial fields.
Co-founder and Founding Partner of Shield Advocates Law Firm, established in 2020 alongside Hassane El Sheref, focusing on corporate and labour law among other areas25.
Head of the Corporate Department at Shield Advocates, with over 15 years of experience providing comprehensive corporate and commercial legal services, including drafting and negotiating complex commercial contracts5.
Leadership in Employment Law Practice, recognized for strengthening Shield Advocates’ employment law offering under his leadership alongside Salma Basset, as noted by Legal 500 rankings7.
Assem Al Hawy is the Founding Partner at Shield Advocates – Al Hawy & Hassane in Giza, Egypt, and leads the firm’s General Corporate and Commercial and Employment Departments.
He specializes in corporate law with a focus on labour law, and provides services in corporate governance, commercial advisory, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, real estate, structuring and dispute resolution.
Shield Advocates was established in 2020.
Assem has more than 20 years of professional experience in the fields of Corporate Commercial, Labor, Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions. Assem’s experience spans over many sectors including Mining, Pharmaceutical, Import & Export, Media & Telecom, E-commerce, Healthcare and Finance. Assem’s Labor practice includes high-level advise on large scale human resources restructure, employee’s profit-sharing ang regulatory compliance. Assem, also, represents numerous public, private, local and international corporations and investors in relation to investments business set-ups in Egypt, capital market transactions, acquisitions of Egyptian legal entities and restructuring. He has conducted many due diligence processes on various types of companies, including investment banks, brokerage companies and holding companies. Assem’s expertise in complex business set-ups is highly sought by local and international clients. He has incorporated public and private free zones as well as investment zones. Moreover, Assem’s technical know-how with shareholders’ transactional agreements is highly appreciated by our clients. Assem’s expertise in commercial matters and his unprecedented negotiation skills of highly commercial agreements, such as distribution and agency, is praised by our clients. Additionally, Assem provides legal and commercial advises in the structure of the mega projects and the restructuring of existing projects.
He is the Founding Partner leading the General Corporate and Commercial Department.
Yes, under his leadership, Shield Advocates’ employment law practice area has been recognized and ranked by Legal 500.
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