Karim A. Youssef
3 Yemen St, off Nile St
Giza 12511
Egypt
Partner at Amereller Legal Consultants, Cairo; Arbitration and international law group, Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton LLP, Paris; Counsel for the Cairo Regional Arbitration Centre (CRCICA); Counsel for the International Human Rights Law Institute at Depaul University.
Board of reporters of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA) for Egypt; Editorial board of the Journal of Arab Arbitration; Conseil Franco Egyptien des Affaires (CFEA).
ICC, CRCICA, DIAC, SCC, LCIA, and ICSID, among many others.
Recent Work Highlights and Counsel Experience in International Commercial & Treaty Arbitration: Representing global cement group (Cementos La Union) in World Bank treaty claims in relation to cement licenses and the regulatory regime in Egypt, (ICSID Case No. ARB/13/29); Representing leading global supply chain management company in ICC claims against a state entity, with a value exceeding USD 2.1 billion; Representing AI-Kholoud S.A.E. in arbitration claims against the Government and related State entities in excess of USD 300 million (the Steam Boilers case); Successfully represented the CBC Channel in eight-digit arbitration claims against former TV performer Bassem Youssef and his production company, QSoft, in a dispute arising out of the unlawful termination of a contract for the exclusive broadcasting rights of The Show; Successfully represented a major tourism developer in a cluster of Cairo-based and foreign arbitrations (CRCICA and ICC), involving 6 parties, and aggregate claimed amounts of about USD 175 million; Represented the owner of one of Cairo’s landmark hotels in a dispute arising out of the management agreement with a multinational hotel group under the UNCITRAL rules; Representing a major construction company in Abu Dhabi in claims under a subcontract concerning electromechanical works arising out of the modernization of a major oil refinery.
Sample of Arbitral Appointments: CRCICA Arbitration (2016), Co-Arbitrator, Egyptian Law, Current; CRCICA Arbitration (2016), Chairman, Egyptian Law, Current; CRCICA Arbitration (2015), Co-arbitrator, Egyptian Law, Current; DIAC Arbitration (2012), Chairman, UAE Law, Concluded; DIAC Arbitration (2012), Co-arbitrator, UAE Law, Concluded; DIAC Arbitration (2013), Co-arbitrator, UAE Law, Concluded; DIAC Arbitration (2014), Co-arbitrator, UAE Law, Concluded; DIAC Arbitration (2014), Sole Arbitrator, UAE Law, Concluded; DIAC Arbitration (2014), Sole Arbitrator, UAE Law, Concluded; DIAC Arbitration (2014), Chairman, UAE Law, Current; ICC Arbitration, Sole Arbitrator, Omani Law, Current; IICRA Arbitration, Chairman, Sharia’a Law, Concluded; SCC Case Aribtration, Co-arbitrator, Current.
‘The Impact of the Arab Spring on International Commercial and Treaty Arbitration in Egypt and the MENA Region’, Arbitration: The International Journal of Arbitration, Mediation and Dispute Management, Vol. 83, Issue 1, 2017; ‘The Impact of the Arab Spring on International Commercial and Treaty Arbitration in Egypt and the MENA Region’, Arbitration; ‘Consent Ltd.: A Brief History of Egypt’s Ministerial Approval Requirement for Arbitration of State Contracts and Why It Should Be Abolished’, in BCDR International Arbitration Review; ‘The Quest for Cosmopolitan Law and Arbitration in the Arab World – Where Do We Stand Now?’, in Festschrift Ahmed Sadek El-Kosheri: From the Arab World to the Globalization of International Law and Arbitration; Consent in Context: Fulfilling the Promise of International Arbitration, Multi-contract and Non-contract arbitration; ‘Universal Arbitration Between Freedom and Constraint: The Challenges of Assessment and Control of Jurisdiction in Multiparty Multi-Contract Arbitration’, in Arbitration: The Next Fifty Years; ‘The limits of consent: the right or obligation to arbitrate of nonsignatories in groups of companies’, in Multiparty Arbitration; ‘The Independence of International Arbitrators: An Arbitrator’s Perspective’, ICC International Court of Arbitration Bulletin; ‘What comes down must go up’, Al-ahram Weekly, 10 February 2005.