Haytham Ali

Practice Areas

Dispute resolution is Haytham's main expertise. He has profound ‎knowledge and experience in various practice areas of dispute ‎resolution including arbitration, litigation, and other alternative dispute ‎resolution procedures. Haytham has arbitrated and litigated high-stake ‎disputes covering a wide range of substantial commercial disputes, ‎usually complex, commercially sensitive, and multi-national or of multi-‎party nature. He is handling cases under the auspice of the major ‎international arbitral institutions and different applicable laws.

Haytham ‎dedicates an important portion of his professional time to serving as ‎chairperson, sole, and party-appointed arbitrator in disputes crossing ‎the economic spectrum. His experience focuses on industrial and ‎professional sectors with emphasis on telecommunications, distribution ‎agreements, construction, hospitality, natural resources, international ‎trade, shareholders disputes, and sports disputes.‎

Haytham has unparalleled experiences in business crime issues, with ‎particular capabilities handling cross-border litigation, ‎multijurisdictional proceedings, bribery and corruption, money ‎laundering, fraud, frozen funds, sanctions, extradition, tax, insider-‎trading, as well as advising clients on preventative measures and ‎compliance matters.

Haytham has gained invaluable first-hand experience in competition ‎practices in the Egyptian market, with an emphasis on private ‎enforcement practices. He strategically and commercially advises ‎multinational and domestic corporations in relation to competition and ‎Anti-dumping matters.

Professional Memberships

Egyptian Bar Association

Member of ICC Commission on ADR and Arbitration‎

Publications

• Post-Arbitral Awad Proceedings: Practice perspective, Journal of Arab ‎Arbitration, no 33-34, December 2019 & June 2020. ‎

‎•‎ Commentary on Cairo Court of Appeal dated 2 June 2020 – Case no. ‎‎39-130 J, International Arbitration Revue, no 45, 46 issued 2020. ‎

‎•‎ Les Pratiques Anticoncurrentielles, abs, Paris, 2009. ‎

‎•‎ Le pouvoir du juge administratif face aux pratiques ‎anticoncurrentielles: Étude selon le droit égyptien, Co-author, Revue de ‎droit privé, University of Montpellier, n° 2, Montpellier, 2008‎

• Abuse of Patent Right, Co-author, State Lawsuit Authority Review, ‎Cairo, November 2008‎