{"id":1578,"date":"2023-07-06T14:10:48","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T14:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bk.shalakany.ae\/?page_id=1578"},"modified":"2024-09-08T08:50:48","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T08:50:48","slug":"litigation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/shalakany.com\/fr\/practice-areas\/litigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Litigation"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Shalakany has acted on almost all major litigation cases in Egypt over the past few decades, ranging a number of sectors, including: construction, oil & gas, power, infrastructure, aviation, insurance, employment and tax disputes.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Litigation Portfolio Management<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tShalakany has the largest corporate litigation department in Egypt and handles the most corporate cases on an annual basis than any other firm in Egypt. Shalakany prides itself on its litigation portfolio management capabilities and the Firm\u2019s selling point is that it is able to handle large portfolios of diverse cases for large corporate clients in a manner which is high in quality but also cost efficient. To this end Shalakany has in place internal systems which automate and distribute litigation cases across Egypt in order to ensure proper litigation services for the client.\n

\nShalakany\u2019s portfolio management department consists of 33 litigation specialists each specialized in a separate field of corporate litigation. Our litigation specialists are supported by several crucial and essential litigation support employees at the firm.\n

\nShalakany has the largest number of paralegals in Egypt at any firm with a large team ofparalegals who support our litigation specialists in following up and obtaining \u2018on the ground\u2019 information from courts all across Egypt\u2019s 27 governorates. Shalakany\u2019s paralegal department is well experienced in dealing with the various needs of corporate clients including dealing with the courts, government entities, GAFI, Industrial Zone Authorities, the Egyptian Tax Authority, Customs Authorities etc..\n

\nShalakany is also proud to have a large team of litigation administrative assistants who are trained in assisting the litigation department in managing and organizing the Firm\u2019s large number of cases as well as filing reports and updating the Firm\u2019s database and clients.\n

\nIn order to share and distribute the Firm\u2019s substantial knowledge and experience in litigation the litigation department meets on a weekly basis to discuss particularly complex cases and recent precedents issued by the Egyptian courts. Furthermore, our litigation specialists have access to a large electronic legal library, internal reports and opinions, and several precedent databases to assist them in preparing for their written and oral pleadings.\n

\nLastly, to ensure seamless communication between the Client and the Firm communication occurs mainly through a dedicated Client Relationship Manager who is updated on a weekly basis of developments in the Client\u2019s various cases and is available to answer any of the Client\u2019s queries. Shalakany\u2019s online systems, billing and administrative department also ensures that invoicing is done in a clear manner even for large portfolios with hundreds of cases. Shalakany\u2019s IT system also allows Clients to access Shalakany\u2019s internal litigation reports for that Client via the Firm\u2019s tailored reporting system.\n

\nShalakany handles a diverse repertoire of litigation portfolios. Shalakany normally handles well over a hundred cases per client per year for large corporate portfolios. In total, Shalakany handles thousands of cases each year spread out over various courts, court degrees and in various sectors such as the following:\n
Real Estate:<\/h6>\n
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  • Shalakany handles Emaar Misr\u2019s litigation portfolio in Egypt and handles well over two hundred and fifty cases per year on Emaar Misr\u2019s behalf. This includes claims regardingenforcement, rescission and compensation arising from sales contracts, labor Cases, government charges and fees cases, tax cases, land registration.<\/li>\n
  • Maf Misr For Commercial &amp; Real Estate\u2019s Egypt litigation portfolio including real estate, labor, criminal and construction disputes is handled by the Firm.<\/li>\n
  • Shalakany handles several cases on behalf of United Lease’s and its subsidiaries litigation portfolio including tax cases. United Lease is one of the four main Real Estate Corporate Lease funding companies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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    • Shalakany handles Amreyah Cement Company’s litigation portfolio including labor cases and tax cases.<\/li>\n
    • Sinai White Portland Cement Company’s litigation portfolio including civil cases and labor cases.<\/li>\n
    • Construcciones Y Auxiliar De Ferrocarriles (Caff)’s litigation portfolio including administrative cases.<\/li>\n
    • Assiut Cement Company (CEMEX)\u2019s previous portfolio of cases with over fifty cases.<\/li>\n
    • Suez Steel Co.\u2019s litigation portfolio is handled by the firm.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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      • Shalakany handles Global Telecom Holding\u2019s Egyptian litigation portfolio including tax and labor cases.<\/li>\n \t
      • Shalakany has handled thousands of cases for Orange Egypt including cases filed to claim removal of mobile relay stations, tower rent claims, compensation claims, labor cases, and tax cases.<\/li>\n \t
      • Shalakany has handled Oracle’s Egyptian litigation portfolio.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nHospitality & Tourism:<\/strong>\n
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        • Shalakany handles Mena House Hotel’s litigation portfolio including civil cases, labor cases, criminal cases and commercial cases<\/li>\n \t
        • The Three Corners Company Egypt’s litigation portfolio with over twenty cases per year\nincluding civil cases, labor cases and criminal cases.<\/li>\n \t
        • Meridien Pyramids’ litigation portfolio including civil cases and labor cases.<\/li>\n \t
        • Sharm Dreams Company for Touristic Investment\u2019s litigation portfolio including labor cases, civil cases and as well governmental disputes such as disputes regarding hotel stores leased to third parties.<\/li>\n \t
        • Rowad Misr For Tourism Investment Co.’s litigation portfolio including civil cases and labor cases, as well governmental disputes such as the recent dispute concerning government fees\non beach front hotels.<\/li>\n \t
        • Wings group’s litigation portfolio including civil cases.<\/li>\n \t
        • Coral Sea Resorts for Hotel’s litigation portfolio including civil cases and commercial cases.<\/li>\n \t
        • Egyptian Tourism Federation’s litigation portfolio including civil cases, labor cases and tax cases.<\/li>\n \t
        • El Zamalek Tourism &amp; Investment Co.’s litigation portfolio including civil cases and administrative cases.<\/li>\n \t
        • Cleopatra Group for Integrated Development &amp; Touristic Projects\u2019 litigation portfolio.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTransportation & logistics:<\/strong>\n
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          • Shalakany handled DHL Worldwide Express Cases filed to claim compensation for financial differences (settlement of account) with their various clients.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nAgriculture:<\/strong>\n
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            • Shalakany handles International Co. for Agro Industrial Projects (BEYTI)\u2019s litigation portfolio including civil cases, criminal cases and labor cases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nFood Industry:<\/strong>\n
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              • Shalakany handles Mondelez Egypt Foods’s litigation portfolio with over thirty cases per year including civil cases, labor cases, criminal cases and administrative cases.<\/li>\n \t
              • KraftHeinz’s litigation portfolio including criminal cases and labor cases.<\/li>\n \t
              • Kellogg Company’s litigation portfolio including civil cases as well as Kellogg\u2019s subsidiary Bisco Misr.<\/li>\n \t
              • Shalakany has handled thousands of cases for Al Ahram Beverages’s including criminal cases, labor cases and civil cases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nInsurance:<\/strong>\n
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                • Shalakany handles Arab International Insurance Company (Allianz)’s litigation portfolio including labor cases, civil cases and as well governmental disputes such as dispute with the Social Insurance Authority at a value of one billion Egyptian pounds.<\/li>\n \t
                • Misr Insurance’s litigation portfolio including commercial cases.<\/li>\n \t
                • Ingostrakh\u2019s Egyptian portfolio including Sinai Aviation accident.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nEnergy & Oil:<\/strong>\n
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                  • Shalakany handles IEOC Production’s litigation portfolio including commercial cases and civil cases.<\/li>\n \t
                  • Shell Lubricant Egypt’s litigation portfolio including civil cases and commercial cases.<\/li>\n \t
                  • Sidi Krir Generating Company’s litigation portfolio including civil cases and labor cases.<\/li>\n \t
                  • Saipem Misr For Petroleum Services’ litigation portfolio including civil cases and criminal\ncases.<\/li>\n \t
                  • Schlumberger Logelco Inc.’s litigation portfolio including labor cases and tax cases.<\/li>\n \t
                  • NRC International Services’ litigation portfolio including civil cases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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                    The Firm\u2019s litigation department has seen a substantial expansion in the past years. Each year, it handles a large number of cases before all levels of Egyptian courts. The litigation department is proud to have some of the leading professors and retired Egyptian judges as Of Counsel and a dynamic team of litigation partners and associates. Members of the litigation department meet daily to review the court attendance agenda and hold meetings each week by specialized groups to brainstorm, discuss and deliberate on complex legal and procedural issues that arise in the cases handled by the Firm. Our litigation department is structured to work in teams and specializations to keep our clients fully in the picture in respect of all aspects of their cases. Our operative word is “Professionalism”.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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                    \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twell as the field of Civil Financial Claims in Egypt having worked on over 400 financial litigation cases. Here are a few examples of cases the firm has recently acted on:\n\n
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                    • Representing Misr Insurance Company against the National Bank of Egypt in an Egyptian litigation case amounting to EGP 3 Billion.<\/li>\n
                    • Two major Egyptian anti-trust cases concerning beIN Media Group with a maximum fine value of EGP 600 Million.<\/li>\n
                    • A PPP dispute concerning Emaar Misr for Development for a multi-billion pound dispute.<\/li>\n
                    • Tax and shareholders claims for Global Telecom Holding (formerly Orascom Telecom Holding) totaling EGP 4 Billion.<\/li>\n
                    • Representing Mondelez in a criminal and civil claim concerning a major industrial accident.<\/li>\n
                    • Representing LLC Avialiniya Kogalymavia (Metrojet) and Ingosstrakh Insurance Company in\ncivil claims based off of a major aviation accident in Egypt.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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                      Shalakany has acted on almost all major litigation cases in Egypt over the past few decades, ranging a number of sectors, including: construction, oil & gas, power, infrastructure, aviation, insurance, employment and tax disputes. Litigation Portfolio Management Shalakany has the largest corporate litigation department in Egypt and handles the most corporate cases on an annual […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1453,"parent":294,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"full-screen","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"0","ocean_second_sidebar":"0","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"off","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"0","ocean_custom_header_template":"0","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"0","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"0","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"0","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1578","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shalakany.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shalakany.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shalakany.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shalakany.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shalakany.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":61,"href":"https:\/\/shalakany.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5895,"href":"https:\/\/shalakany.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1578\/revisions\/5895"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shalakany.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shalakany.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shalakany.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}