Hani Sarie-Eldin

Dr. Hani Sarie-Eldin has 35 years of local and international experience in International Arbitration, Business Law, including Commercial Law, Capital Markets, Privatization, Corporate Funding, Project Funding, Acquisitions, and construction contracts.

He advises on major transactions taking place in Egypt, and in the Middle East and North Africa region related to the above-mentioned areas.

He was involved in drafting various vital Egyptian Laws and Regulations such as the Egyptian Banking Law, Concession Law, Antitrust Law, Consumer Protection Law, Takeover Regulation, Mutual Fund & Private Equity Regulation, Price Manipulation & Insider Trading Regulation, and Corporate Governance rules for listed companies on the stock exchange, in addition to advising various governments in the region on legal reforms including the United Arab Emirates, Libya, Kuwait, and Sudan.

Dr. Sarie-Eldin served as an expert, and was appointed as a sole arbitrator, CO arbitrator and Chairman in more than 45 international arbitrations under DIAC (UAE), CRCICA (Egypt), and the ICC in Paris.

Dr. Sarie-Eldin is an associate Professor of Commercial & Maritime Law at Cairo University teaching Banking, Commercial Law, Arbitration and Corporate Law. Dr. Sarie-Eldin supervises PH.D students in Commercial and Banking Law.

• Advised and represented the United Tobacco Company in participating and winning an auction announced by the Industrial Development Authority to obtain the second license of manufacturing the traditional and electronic cigarettes. The capacity of the Company productions is to produce around one billion cigarettes per year.
• Advised Talaat Moustafa Group in relation to the launch of “Misr Real Estate Fund 1” in a strategic Partnership with Banque Misr with total contribution of up to EGP 500 M.

• Banking and finance
• Capital markets
• Corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution
• Investment funds

• Banking and financial services
• Infrastructure
• Oil and gas
• Real estate
• Energy

• A Non-Executive Chairman of Union Capital Financial Advisory Company.
• Vice-Chairman of Philip Morris – Egypt,
• Board Member of Bedaya Mortgage Finance.
• Board Member of Talaat Moustafa Group (TMG) and the Chairman of the Audit Committee.
• Board Member in Arafa Holding Group.
• Board Member of CI Capital Holding and the Chairman of the Audit Committee,
• Board Member of the Egyptian Real Estate Fund,
• Board Member in the Egyptian National Competitiveness Council. Board Member of Magdi Yacoub Heart Foundation.
• Board Member of Trustees of Nile University.
• Board Member of the Egyptian British Business Council.
• Board member of the International Advisory Board for School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, AUC.
• Board member of Board of Trustees of Qalaa Holding Scholarship Foundation.

• Ph.D. in International Business Law, Center for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, (1995).
• Diploma of Private Law, Cairo University ( Distinction) Class Ranking: 1st, (1989).
• Diploma of Public Law, Cairo University (Distinction) Class Ranking: 1st, (1988).
• License en Droit, Cairo University (Distinction), (1987).