Labour & Employment
Employment & Executive Advisory
Sensitive employment matters, executive arrangements, and internal investigations.
We advise employers and senior executives on the highest-stakes employment matters — contracts, restructurings, terminations, investigations, and disputes — with confidentiality and commercial judgment.
How we help
What we handle for you
- Employment contracts and executive service agreements
- Internal policies, employee handbooks, and disciplinary procedures
- Restructurings, terminations, and severance strategy
- Internal investigations and misconduct matters
- Confidentiality and non-compete arrangements
- Social insurance, work permits, and immigration
- Incentive, bonus, and retention arrangements
- Employment disputes and executive exit negotiations
When to involve us
When you might need us
A senior appointment or departure is being negotiated
A workforce restructuring must be executed
A sensitive investigation or dispute has arisen
Tell us where things stand — we'll take it from there.
Our approach
How we approach your matter
Egyptian labour law protects employees strongly on the surface but rewards precise procedural execution by employers. Terminations that skip a step become claims; those built correctly hold.
Executive matters are as much reputational as legal. We contain communications and align legal terms with the commercial narrative the client needs to project.
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Assess
We begin with a disciplined intake — mapping facts, exposures, counterparties, and the commercial objective before any legal position is taken.
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Structure
We design the legal architecture — instruments, protections, and sequencing — to align with the client's commercial and regulatory reality.
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Execute
We drive negotiation, drafting, filings, or advocacy with senior involvement on every substantive point — no delegation of judgment.
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Protect
We close the loop — enforcement, monitoring, and continuity — so the outcome holds under commercial and legal pressure.
From our experience
Situations we're often brought in on
- Executed a multi-site workforce restructuring for an industrial operator with zero labour-court exposure at year-end.
- Negotiated the departure of a senior executive under confidential terms preserving business continuity.
- Conducted an internal investigation into alleged misconduct and delivered a defensible report to the board.
Anonymized examples.
Senior lawyers, directly involved
A senior lawyer stays engaged in every substantive decision.
Deep Egypt expertise
Command of Egyptian law, courts, regulators and commercial reality.
Clarity at every step
Options and consequences explained, the next step defined with you.
Let's start with one clear step.
Your enquiry is reviewed by a senior lawyer — in Arabic or English — and treated with complete discretion.