Egypt

Firm overview

Founded in 1926, Saba IP leads the MENA region's IP landscape with tailored services and a commitment to future industries. Our 15 offices strategically situated across MENA enable us to deliver unmatched expertise and support.

With over 350 professionals, including lawyers, patent attorneys, engineers, and IP experts, we serve a diverse clientele. From trademarks, designs, copyrights, and patents to enforcement and anti-counterfeiting measures, we offer a comprehensive spectrum of IP services. Our approach aligns seamlessly with clients' business strategies, reinforcing our role as partners rather than mere practitioners.

Our dedication to client satisfaction and forward-looking innovation sets us apart. From trademark protection in luxury and consumer sectors to patent procurement in pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals, electronics, and more, our team excels. We handle everything from patentability assessments to filing strategies while staying compliant with local patent requirements.

Firm overview

Shield Advocates! Established in 2020 and located in the Greater Cairo Area of Egypt, we are a full-service law firm catering to multinational, regional, and local corporations, as well as investors and business entrepreneurs. Our team of legal experts combines solid legal expertise with profound business understanding to provide advice on high-profile complex transactions, cross-border commercial arrangements, and sophisticated disputes. We represent our clients in courts of law and arbitration panels. At Shield Advocates, we understand the importance of quantifiable reporting methods for our clients. We provide reliable reporting that our clients can rely on for their short, medium, and long-term business activities and planning. With our diverse expertise and reliable qualifications, we help our clients assess, locate, evaluate, and control legal and compliance risks across various commercial and business fields. We are committed to delivering exceptional service and value to our clients, ensuring their success in a dynamic and competitive business environment.

Main Areas of Practice:

Intellectual Property

Corporate & Commercial

Mergers & Acquisitions

Banking & Finance

Employment

Real Estate

Firm overview

CWB emerged as an unrivalled super-regional firm in 2023 following the merger of leading regional IP specialists Cedar White Bradley, PETOŠEVIĆ Group and Hahn & Hahn with 29 offices, 150 practitioners, and 250 employees, CWB now services and manages the portfolios of some of the world's leading IP owners across 100+ jurisdictions in Africa, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East.

Through an unrivalled footprint of offices and affiliated offices, we offer centrally managed IP solutions and dedicated client-specific, cross-jurisdiction teams. We blend the best advanced IP practices and the local know-how to deliver consistent quality service across a large geographical area, despite all the challenges posed by the countries we operate in.

CWB provides a full spectrum of IP services related to virtually all IP rights, as well as brand management and brand enforcement services. Our teams protect thousands of IP rights for market leading clients across a large section of industries. We also have a Media & Entertainment team, which provides highly specialized support to clients navigating local regulatory landscapes in fields such as film production, content streaming, crypto, advertising, data protection, social media, software licensing and music usage.

CWB is thinking beyond the technology available today to transform the IP services industry. We are implementing the most innovative technologies and leveraging automation and AI to enhance the client and employee experience and to achieve industry-leading efficiencies.

CWB Office Locations

Africa: Egypt, South Africa (Pretoria and Western Cape), Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Central Asia: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
Central & Eastern Europe: Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Kosovo (UNSCR 1244), Luxembourg, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Ukraine
Middle East: Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Qatar, United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi and Dubai)

IP Practice Specialisms

CWB provides a full spectrum of intellectual property services related to trademarks, patents, utility models, industrial designs, copyright; domain names, trade secrets and other IP rights, as well as brand management and brand enforcement services. CWB teams file, prosecute, register, and enforce thousands of IP rights for market leading and globally renowned clients across a large section of industries, including consumer electronics, automotive, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, confectionery, FMCG, property development, luxury brands, fashion and cosmetics.

Firm overview

Matouk Bassiouny is a leading full-service MENA law firm with over 270 lawyers operating out of its offices in Cairo, Egypt (Matouk Bassiouny & Hennawy), Dubai and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Matouk Bassiouny), Khartoum, Sudan (Matouk Bassiouny in association with AIH Law Firm), and Algiers, Algeria (Matouk Bassiouny).

Matouk Bassiouny’s MENA offices are supplemented by a New York satellite office dedicated to enhancing the firm’s international Dispute Resolution services in addition to two country desks covering Libya and South Korea.

Trained locally and internationally in both civil and common law systems, our attorneys are ideally placed to advise multinationals, corporations, financial institutions, and governmental entities on all legal aspects of investing and doing business in the region.