Deputy Justice Minister El Bahabety named as honorary member to the ICC’s International Court of Arbitration: Our friend Moustafa El Bahabety, the deputy justice minister for arbitration and international disputes, was named as an honorary member of the ICC. El Bahabety has been a judge on the ICC since 2005 and had reached his term limit as a member of court. El Bahabety’s induction sees him become the first Egyptian to be an honorary member of ICC. He continues to serve within the Egyptian government as the head of the technical committee of the Ministerial Committee for Settlement of Investment Disputes, building on his own track record of success of having reached settlement agreements last year in international arbitration cases with parties including Germany’s Utsch AG, National Gas Company in France, and a settlement in 2016 with ArcelorMittal.

Separately, there were also two lawyers appointed to the court: Two of Egypt’s top lawyers were appointed as members of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)’s International Court of Arbitration. Shahid Law Firm Managing Partner Girgis Abd El-Shahid and Samaa A. Haridi, a partner at Hogan Lovells in New York, joined the court as members. They join Zulficar & Partners Founding Partner Mohamed S. Abdel Wahab, who is a vice president at the ICC International Court of Arbitration.