Prof. Mohamed Sameh Amr

Dr. Mohamed Sameh Amr is an Attorney at law, Founding Partner of Amr and Partners Law Firm, located in Cairo, Egypt. He is a Professor and the Chair of International Law at Cairo University. Dr. Amr is a Board member of the Faculty of Law, Cairo University.

He is also an independent arbitrator, as well as is acting as a legal advisor in the field of corporate law (Investment Law, Financing and Banking Law, Corporate and Commercial Law). Dr. Amr is a Board member of the Egyptian General Authority of Foreign Investment (GAFI) since 2017.

Since his graduation from the Faculty of Law, Cairo University in 1987, he has worked in three complementary fields, which are Academia, Law practice, and Diplomacy.

In the field of Academia, Dr. Amr is currently a Professor of International Law at Cairo University. He started his academic career as an Assistant Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Cairo University in January 1988, and subsequently became a Lecturer in 1997 and an Assistant Professor in 2004 until 2010 at the same university. He is also a visiting professor at SciencePo. (France) and Verona University (Italy).

In the field of Corporate Law and Arbitration, Dr. Amr is a member in the Egyptian Bar Association. He has an experience of over 30 years in this field since he joined Shalakany Law Office in 1987 as an Associate.

In 2016, Dr. Amr established a law firm “Amr and Partners Law Firm” in Cairo (Egypt) and acted as Independent Consultant in Paris (France). Dr. Amr offers a comprehensive range of legal services in commercial law, investment law, management, joint venture, franchising, banking and finance, companies’ incorporations, structures and restructure of companies, mergers and acquisitions, securities, capital market, competition, public-private partnership, as well as trademarks and patents, tourism and services, and IPO’s.

Dr. Amr participated in drafting the Executive Regulations of the Egyptian Law of Competition and Anti-trust (2006), Investment Law of Egypt (2017), amendments to the Companies Law (2017), amendments to the Capital Market Law (2017), amendments to the Financial Leasing Law (2017) and finally the new Factoring Law (2018). He has represented Egypt in drafting and negotiating a number of Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs). In 2022, Dr. Amr was selected, among eminent practitioners, by the Egyptian Ministry of Justice as a member of the committee tasked with proposing possible amendments to the Egyptian Arbitration Law no. 27 of year 1994.

In the field of Arbitration, he acted as co-arbitrator and Chairman of arbitral tribunals in numerous of domestic and international arbitration cases (institutional and ad hoc) in matters relating to construction, transfer of technology, agency, distribution, shareholders, telecommunication and oil and gas.

In the field of Diplomacy, he has served as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Egypt to UNESCO 2012 – 2016. He has also served as the Deputy Permanent Representative of Egypt to UNESCO 2000 – 2004. Dr. Amr was elected as the Chairperson of UNESCO’s Executive Board of UNESCO 2013 – 2015.