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Court<\/strong> blocks GAFI\u2019s forced board shake-up at ERC: <\/strong>The State Council\u2019s Administrative Court has suspended a decision by the General Authority of Investment and FreeZones (GAFI) compelling the Egyptian Resorts Company to convene a general meeting and elect a new board. <\/p>\n

An <\/strong>interim ruling (pdf)<\/a><\/strong> by the court found that GAFI\u2019s directive lacked <\/strong>legal <\/strong>basis and blocked votes scheduled for 16 and 23 May <\/strong>(the latter in case quorum wasn\u2019t reached at the first meeting), according to a regulatory disclosure (pdf)<\/a>. The appeal was filed and ruled on in just four days. GAFI\u2019s Grievance Committee is set to convene today to discuss the legal status of its decision.<\/p>\n

ERC is the developer behind Sahl Hasheesh<\/strong>, a high-profile Red Sea coast destination that\u2019s over half the size of Manhattan.<\/p>\n

Remnants of a grudge<\/p>\n

The ruling freezes a long-running boardroom dispute between ERC\u2019s management and a dissenting minority shareholder bloc <\/strong>\u2014 led by Tarek Muhammadi Mansour, Sahar Adel Suleiman, and Jehan Adel Suleiman \u2014 over the control of one of the country\u2019s largest tourism land banks, a source with first-hand knowledge of the dispute tells EnterpriseAM. \u201cWhile the dispute appears to be over the company's management, it is, in reality, a dispute over sale contracts,\u201d the source says.<\/p>\n

The real war is over the price of the dirt in Sahl Hasheesh. <\/strong>As a tourism developer, ERC can legally price land in USD, and that\u2019s where the battle lines were drawn. The shareholder bloc behind the push has been fighting since 2019 to fix the exchange rate for their specific land-purchase contracts at EGP 10 to the USD, the source tells us. By forcing a board shuffle, the family-led insurgency, which holds a combined 24.95% stake (pdf)<\/a> in ERC as of mid April, was looking to secure more favorable terms. The EGP was at 53.39 yesterday.<\/p>\n

Why this would\u2019ve worked:<\/strong> A board of directors has the power to settle disputes and approve contract amendments without a shareholder vote. In theory, a friendly board could choose to stop pursuing payments for land at a higher exchange rate. This would allow the group to settle their outstanding contractual obligations to the company at a sharp markdown, benefitting the family bloc at the expense of ERC\u2019s broader shareholder base.<\/p>\n

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Close, but no cigar<\/p>\n

The latest turn in the dispute began after the bloc failed to seize control during a grueling 14-hour general assembly<\/strong> in September 2025, when a new board was elected, Matouk Bassiouny & Hennawy (MBH) partner Amr Ehab tells EnterpriseAM. The bloc requested that ERC\u2019s board call a new election in November that same year \u2014 the board rejected the request, saying there was no legal requirement for a re-do. Ehab represented ERC in the lawsuit.<\/p>\n

What really happened is, they overplayed their hand. <\/strong>Banking on their size \u2014 which on that day combined the family bloc\u2019s 24.95% stake with Beit El Khebra\u2019s 23.54% stake to form a near-majority \u2014 the coalition attempted a boardroom bluff that was called out by management, according to board meeting minutes filed to the EGX (pdf)<\/a>. The bloc was circulating an unauthorized memo to remove the sitting board. Given that this must be done via secret ballot, the plan crashed into a technical wall because a big portion of the shareholders were attending remotely, and the online interface could not legally support a secret ballot for an unscheduled motion without prior clearance from GAFI.<\/p>\n

The second obstacle was also procedural. <\/strong>Many of the signatures the bloc gathered for the motion to unseat the current board were backed by restricted powers of attorney (limited to attendance and voting) that did not cover the right to submit impromptu structural motions. After a heated discussion between a Beit El Khebra representative and the chairman, the bloc staged a tactical walkout and abstained from voting in a backfired bid to break quorum, which wiped their own numerical advantage and allowed current management to legally sweep and lock down new board seats.<\/p>\n

The bloc then went to court four times to annul the September election results <\/strong>\u2014 and on four separate occasions, the Qena Economic Court refused the petition. The group then turned to the regulator. Their argument? ERC\u2019s board had abdicated its duties and failed to exercise proper oversight.<\/p>\n

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The BoD said no, GAFI said\u2026 yes?<\/p>\n

Typically, the regulator would first want to investigate the claim that the board had been derelict in carrying out its duties.<\/strong> The bloc first approached GAFI in December 2025 \u2014 the regulator replied in March 2026 that the filing was missing a document, which lawyers for the families submitted the same month. Just 45 days later, with no further contact, GAFI went straight to the EGX with an announcement calling the assembly for 16 May. \u201cWe were surprised [on 20 April] that the authority announced on the EGX a call for the assembly to convene [on 16 May] to elect a new board,\u201d Ehab says. It was only then that ERC execs learned that the bloc had gone to GAFI, he adds.<\/p>\n

ERC\u2019s legal team went into emergency mode. <\/strong>Lawyers asked in April that GAFI\u2019s Grievance Committee intervene and filed an appeal on Tuesday 5 May. Four days later, they were in court. Recognizing that a board shuffle, once done, would be nearly impossible to undo, the Administrative Court gave GAFI\u2019s lawyers just three hours to review the file and respond. The court\u2019s interim ruling was scathing, saying it found that since a valid board was already in place, GAFI had no grounds to say the board was in the wrong for refusing to call another election. <\/p>\n

SOUND SMART- <\/strong>It\u2019s not often the State Council (Maglis El Dowla) rules against a major watchdog in favor of a company \u2014 let alone this fast. \u201cThe speed of this ruling serves as a reassurance to EGX investors even when a regulator exceeds its statutory jurisdiction or commits a procedural impropriety, the judiciary will intervene to maintain corporate stability and protect stakeholders\u2019 interests,\u201d Ehab says.<\/p>\n

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Reclaiming the plots<\/p>\n

Right on the heels of the judicial rescue<\/strong>, ERC\u2019s board secured an unappealable \u2014 and unanimous \u2014 international arbitration award on 10 May to terminate 2015 land contracts in Sahl Hasheesh held by Tarek Mansour and Jehan Suleiman, forcing them to return the coastal plots to ERC, according to an EGX disclosure (pdf)<\/a>. ERC will refund the group USD 3.87 mn to claw back the plots into its own inventory, while the tribunal ordered the shareholders to pay USD 49.7k to cover ERC\u2019s legal costs.<\/p>\n

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Why this doesn\u2019t set a precedent <\/p>\n

Pundits warn against reading the case as a binding legal precedent. <\/strong>\u201cIn Egypt, rulings are used as a trend rather than a binding precedent,\u201d veteran lawyer and former MBH partner Islam Saeed tells EnterpriseAM, noting that a single first-instance procedural ruling \u201cdoes not carry the weight of a formal legal precedent.\u201d The decision still sends an important signal to the market that regulators cannot easily be used as a shortcut by activist shareholders seeking to bypass the Companies Law.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a purely procedural matter regarding a specific error in process<\/strong>, rather than a substantive legal principle,\u201d Saeed tells us, adding that the Administrative Court in question is \u201ca court of first instance, not the Supreme Administrative Court \u2026 it cannot be signaled as a definitive precedent that would significantly impact other cases.\u201d<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s next<\/p>\n

While the 16 May general meeting is dead, the legal status of GAFI\u2019s decision remains in limbo<\/strong>, Ehab tells us. The court ruling currently acts as a stay of execution \u2014 it renders the decision \u201cpractically non-existent\u201d but doesn\u2019t technically erase it from the books, he says.<\/p>\n

The final kill rests with the GAFI\u2019s Grievance Committee, which is set to convene today (Thursday, 21 May). <\/strong>\u201cThe Grievance Committee might lean towards annulling GAFI\u2019s decision,\u201d Ehab tells us. If they do, the decision is formally annulled and binding on GAFI, effectively ending the threat. But, even if the committee rejects the grievance, the Administrative Court\u2019s interim ruling holds on its own. The committee is a specialized three-member panel chaired by a member of the judiciary alongside a GAFI representative and an outside expert.<\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s note: <\/strong>GAFI did not respond to EnterpriseAM\u2019s request for comment on this story, sent by email on May 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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