Mohamed Lemine Abdel Hamid

Practice Areas

With 40 years' experience, Mohamed Lemine Abdel Hamid's practice focuses on business law transactions and innovative and complex international operations. He assists and supports public bodies and major local companies, as well as multinationals, on complex projects in which he advises them on all legal and negotiation aspects and in various sectors, including power, energy and infrastructure, telecommunications, media and technology, mergers and acquisitions, financial and insurance services, dispute resolution, arbitration, banking and financial litigation, employment litigation, tax litigation, etc. Mohamed Lemine Abdel Hamid is an Arbitrator approved by the Mauritanian International Mediation and Arbitration Centre (CIMAM) and has acted as counsel or arbitrator in several international arbitration proceedings representing companies, States, and State-owned entities in highly complex commercial and investor-State disputes.

Career

Mohamed Lemine Abdel Hamid has been practicing law and nothing but law for almost 40 years with the law firm Étude Abdel Hamid & Co., of which he is the founder. He has been a member of the Nouakchott Bar since 1984. Mohamed Lemine Abdel Hamid graduated in private law from the Strasbourg Faculty of Law in France and the Tunis Faculty of Law and Economics. Mohamed Lemine Abdel Hamid's main area of practice is business law, where he acts as defence counsel, plaintiff, and often on a consultancy basis. Mohamed Lemine Abdel Hamid has a sound knowledge of the institutional and regulatory framework in Mauritania, having practiced it either during litigation proceedings or through opinions and briefs prepared for his clients, but above all, having been in charge of the related legal aspects. Mohamed Lemine Abdel Hamid has appeared before foreign courts, in particular in Senegal, Mali, Benin, Guinea, and France, and most often before Mauritanian courts.

Publications

Several articles and presentations on contract law, maritime law, company merger and acquisition procedures under Mauritanian law, etc.

Conducts legal seminars and contributes to the drafting of texts, in particular on business law, collective proceedings, the commercial register, arbitration, energy, etc.

Clients

Mohamed Lemine Abdel Hamid acts for a wide range of private and public clients, including multinational corporations, midcaps, local authorities, international institutions, etc.

Languages Spoken

French, Arabic, English