Top arbitration practitioners named: Who’s Who Legal (WWH) and Global Arbitration Review (GAR) have named Zulficar & Partners’ Mohamed Abdel Wahab and Youssef & Partners’ Karim Youssef as “global elite thought leaders” in their latest list of top-ranked arbitration practitioners.

Seven lawyers received recommendations: Shahid Law Firm’s Girgis Abd El Shahid and the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration’s Ismail Selim were among seven lawyers recommended by WWH and GAR. Other lawyers included in this ranking:

  • Amr Abbas, Matouk Bassiouny;
  • Mohamed Abdel Raouf, Abdel Raouf Law Firm;
  • Khaled El Shalakany, Shalakany Law Office;
  • Tarek Fouad Riad, Tarek Riad – Legal Consultants and Attorneys at Law;
  • Karim Hafez, independent arbitrator.

Visa and CIB team up to support women-led businesses: Visa and CIB awarded grants worth USD 10k to three Egyptian women that run their own small businesses under the second iteration of the She’s Next program, they said in a joint statement. The three entrepreneurs were chosen from over 4k applicants and were also awarded a year of business coaching from USAID.

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Vodafone Egypt recognized for diversity, inclusion: Vodafone Egypt received an award for diversity and inclusion at the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) MENA 2023 conference, it said in a press release (pdf).

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