ASA LAW FIRM

Our Partners

Three partners.
One practice.

Shared leadership bringing together Egyptian judicial and law-enforcement insight with Gulf transactional experience.

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ASA

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A partner-led team combining institutional knowledge, commercial judgement and a direct understanding of how Egyptian law is applied in practice.

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Partner-led by design.

ASA Law Firm is led by three partners: two Egyptian partners with senior careers inside Egypt’s judicial and law-enforcement institutions, and one Kuwaiti partner who is also the founding partner of Alsaeed Ahmed Alsaeed in Kuwait.

Their combined experience gives clients direct access to legal judgement shaped inside the institutions that apply and enforce Egyptian law, together with a practical regional perspective on complex transactions and market entry across the Gulf.

Founding Partner

Egyptian Judicial Leadership

Former Vice President of the Administrative Authority.

Founding Partner

Egyptian Regulatory Leadership

Former Deputy Minister of Interior following senior police leadership.

Founding Partner

Kuwait and Gulf Practice

Founding partner of Alsaeed Ahmed Alsaeed.

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Profile structure

Practice Focus

Two to four areas most closely associated with each partner.

Professional Overview

Career trajectory, current focus and the experience that distinguishes each partner.

Career Highlights

Senior public positions, private practice, notable matters, transactions, boards and appointments.

Education & Credentials

Degrees, postgraduate qualifications, bar admissions, licenses and professional memberships.

Recognitions & Affiliations

Awards, honors, speaking engagements, publications and professional bodies.

Languages & Contact

Language capabilities and approved contact route through ASA Law Firm.

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Professional overview

Ahmed Abdelaal anchors ASA’s dispute resolution and cross-border contracts practice, bridging the firm’s Cairo and Kuwait offices with more than thirty-five years of combined judicial and private-practice experience. A former Vice President of Egypt’s Administrative Prosecution Authority — a rank equivalent to Vice President of the Court of Cassation — he built an extensive Kuwait-based practice advising corporates, institutions, and government bodies on complex litigation, arbitration, and high-value government and construction contracts. Clients engage him when a matter runs through more than one legal system and calls for someone equally fluent in judicial procedure and commercial pragmatism.

Practice focus

  • Dispute Resolution & Commercial Litigation
  • Commercial Arbitration
  • Government & Public Contracts
  • Construction & Engineering Claims
  • Corporate & Commercial Contracts
  • Cross-Border Practice (Egypt–Kuwait/GCC)
Career Highlights
  • Vice President of Egypt’s Administrative Prosecution Authority — the body responsible for legal and disciplinary investigations across Egypt’s public administration.
  • Built and led a private practice in Kuwait spanning litigation, arbitration, and government and construction contract advisory for corporate, institutional, and government clients.
  • Drafted and argued pleadings and appeals before the Kuwaiti courts at every level, and represented clients in commercial arbitration before Kuwait’s principal arbitration centers.
  • Seconded full-time to Egypt’s Ministry of Justice as Consultant and Member of the Technical Office of the Assistant Minister of Justice for Judicial Claims, 2007–2014.
  • Selected to contribute to United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) legislative-reform initiatives, including sessions on the UN Convention against Corruption (Istanbul, 2014) and the drafting of Iraq’s Stolen Asset Recovery legislation (Jordan, Turkey, and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, 2014–2015).
Professional Experience

Private Practice — Kuwait

Advised a client portfolio including joint-stock companies, commercial institutions, and government bodies, drafting statements of claim, defense and reply memoranda, and appeal and cassation submissions before the Kuwaiti courts. Prepared reasoned legal opinions in civil, commercial, labor, and administrative matters, and represented clients in commercial arbitration, including preparing statements of claim and pleadings and following hearing procedures before accredited arbitration centers. Supervised and led teams of consultants and researchers, established standardized contract and pleading templates, trained newly qualified lawyers, and managed client relationships with regular reporting on case developments and legal risk.

Contractual Advisory & Project Management

Drafted, reviewed, and negotiated government and commercial contracts, and advised on legal and contractual risk from the contracting stage through final project delivery. Prepared and reviewed claims arising from engineering and construction contracts, and performed early legal assessment of disputes to identify strengths, weaknesses, and strategy.

Judicial Service — Administrative Prosecution Authority, Egypt

Appointed Assistant Prosecutor in 1993 by presidential decree and progressed through the ranks to Deputy Head of the Authority in 2014, conducting legal and disciplinary investigations and appearing before the State Council courts. Held prosecutorial posts across Giza, Arish, Financial Affairs, Suez, Local Administration, and Transport Prosecution offices, and served as Director of the Ismailia Prosecution Office. Lectured and trained Ain Shams University law students in compulsory enforcement and moot-court practice, 2007–2010.

Complementary Expertise & Industry Focus
  • Government & Public Sector — structuring, negotiating, and disputing government contracts and public tenders.
  • Construction & Infrastructure — claims and risk management on engineering and construction contracts.
  • Financial Regulatory Matters — trained in banking credit and capital markets crime.
  • Data & Information Security — trained in e-contracts, information security, and anti–money laundering, relevant to clients on digital-transformation and data-protection compliance.
Education & Credentials
  • Master’s Degree in Litigation Logistics and Dispute Resolution — Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, 2011.
  • Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Police Sciences — Police Academy, 1989.
  • Advanced training in intellectual property protection, banking credit, capital markets crime, human rights, and information security; specialized programs on the UN Convention against Corruption, e-litigation, and arbitration.
Professional Affiliations & Memberships
  • Accredited Arbitrator, Kuwait Chamber of Commerce & Industry Commercial Arbitration Center.
  • Board Member, Middle East Center for International Arbitration, 2007–2014.
  • Board Member, Administrative Prosecution Counsellors’ Club, 2010–2014, and the Administrative Prosecution Counsellors’ Housing Association, 2007–2015.
  • Member, Egyptian Association for Combating Informatics and Internet Crimes.
  • Member of the Egyptian Bar Association
Honors & Recognition

Selected by the United Nations Development Programme to contribute to international legislative-reform workshops on anti-corruption and asset-recovery law (Istanbul, Jordan, Turkey, and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, 2014–2015) — a mark of recognized subject-matter standing beyond Egypt’s borders.

Languages

Arabic.

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Professional overview

Ali Mahmoud Ali Ahmed Shalash founded and leads ASA’s Government & Regulatory Affairs practice — a service line built specifically around a perspective no litigator or transactional lawyer has: nearly thirty-six years spent inside the machinery that licenses, inspects, and enforces in Egypt. He retired as Major General and Assistant Minister of Interior after commanding the security directorate of Giza — one of Egypt’s largest and most complex governorates — following three decades leading security and investigative operations across seven governorates and several national commands. He knows what a regulator actually looks for in an inspection, what gets a license approved rather than delayed, and how enforcement decisions really get made inside government — not only what the regulations say. He leads this practice in close coordination with ASA’s dispute resolution and corporate teams, so clients get both the legal analysis and the ground-level read on how the relevant authority will actually act.

Practice focus

  • Government & Regulatory Affairs (Practice Lead)
  • Government Licensing & Regulatory Approvals
  • Corporate Risk & Crisis Advisory
  • Investigations
Career Highlights
  • Founded and leads ASA’s Government & Regulatory Affairs practice, the firm’s dedicated service line for clients navigating Egyptian licensing, regulatory approval, and enforcement processes.
  • Reached the rank of Major General and the position of Assistant Minister of Interior — one of a small number of officers to attain that level — after nearly thirty-six years of service.
  • Led the security directorate of Giza Governorate as Deputy Security Director at Director-General (Undersecretary) rank, his final and most senior command, with direct responsibility for how security and regulatory enforcement actually functioned across one of Egypt’s largest jurisdictions.
  • Commanded security directorates across seven Egyptian governorates over three decades, including national commands over transport, communications, and critical-infrastructure policing — breadth that gives him a working knowledge of how different regulatory and licensing authorities operate in practice, not just in one sector or region.
  • Conducted and directed criminal, disciplinary, and administrative investigations throughout his career, producing the official findings and decisions those investigations required and answering for them to senior Ministry, governorate, and judicial leadership.
  • Completed his service with a clean disciplinary record and a First-Class Distinction Grade, the highest performance distinction awarded shortly before his retirement in 2021.
Professional Experience

Leading Government & Regulatory Affairs at ASA

Heads the practice group ASA built around his background — advising clients on government licensing, regulatory approvals, and enforcement processes where knowing how the relevant authority actually operates matters as much as knowing the applicable rule. Works in close coordination with the firm’s dispute resolution and corporate teams so that every matter carries both the legal analysis and his read on how the authority in question is likely to act.

Senior Command — Giza Governorate

Served as Deputy Security Director of Giza at Director-General (Undersecretary) rank, and previously as Deputy Security Director for Sector and Assistant Security Director — a progression through the security leadership of one of Egypt’s largest and most demanding jurisdictions, with responsibility spanning security operations, regulatory enforcement, and crisis response.

Regional & National Command

Led the security directorates of Minya, Luxor, Suez, and Beheira governorates, and directed the General Administration of Transport and Communications Police — a national command over infrastructure and transport-sector policing. Earlier postings spanned the Security Directorates of Assiut and Beni Suef, the General Administration of Electricity Police, and the State Security Investigations Sector.

Investigations & Regulatory Decision-Making

Built deep operational experience in criminal and judicial investigations, intelligence gathering, and general security operations, together with specialized command training in crisis and operations-room management and executive protection. That record sits behind his advisory work at ASA: understanding not just the rule a client is trying to satisfy, but how the official on the other side of the table actually evaluates and decides — the difference between advice that is technically correct and advice that works.

Complementary Expertise & Industry Focus
  • Real Estate & Construction — security, licensing, and regulatory coordination relevant to large-scale developments.
  • Oil & Gas — critical-infrastructure protection and security-regulatory compliance.
  • Hospitality & Tourism — grounded in his command of Luxor Governorate, one of Egypt’s principal tourism centers, and earlier service with the Tourism Police.
  • Transport & Logistics — drawn from his command of the General Administration of Transport and Communications Police.
  • Corporate Security & Crisis Risk Advisory — built on his operations and crisis-room management experience.
Education & Credentials
  • Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Police Sciences — Police College, 1985.
  • Executive-level training in criminal investigation, crisis and operations management, and executive protection.
Professional Affiliations & Memberships

Member of the Egyptian Bar Association

Languages

Arabic.

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Professional overview

As founding partner of Alsaeed Ahmed Alsaeed and a partner at ASA Law Firm, Alsaeed Ahmed Alsaeed leads the shared leadership connecting the firm’s Cairo and Kuwait practices. Admitted before Kuwait’s Court of Cassation and Constitutional Court, he built his practice at the intersection of constitutional and public law, commercial arbitration, and banking and corporate advisory — combining active litigation and arbitration practice with academic research, government advisory appointments, and board-level roles across Kuwait’s legal and business community. Few practitioners in the region pair genuine constitutional-law scholarship with a standing commercial practice at the country’s highest courts; he does both.

Practice focus

  • Constitutional & Public Law
  • Commercial Arbitration
  • Banking & Financial Services
  • Corporate & Commercial Law
  • Government & Legislative Advisory
Career Highlights
  • Founding Partner of Alsaeed Ahmed Alsaeed, Kuwait, admitted to practice before the Kuwaiti Court of Cassation and Constitutional Court.
  • Legal Consultant to the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers of Kuwait (2020) and to the Military Judiciary Authority at Kuwait’s Ministry of Defense (2023) — government advisory appointments at cabinet and ministry level.
  • Head of the Center for Draft Laws Submitted to the National Assembly at the Kuwait Bar Association, 2022–2023, reviewing and advising on legislation before Kuwait’s parliament.
  • Judicial Arbitrator with the Judicial Arbitration Department at Kuwait’s Ministry of Justice, and Commercial Arbitrator at the Kuwait Commercial Arbitration Center (Kuwait Chamber of Commerce & Industry).
  • Published constitutional-law research and holds a Master’s degree in Public Law (Constitutional Law) from the University of Sharjah with Excellent distinction; currently a PhD researcher in Public Law at the same university.
Professional Experience

Private Practice & Litigation

Practices through his own firm, the Law Office of Alsaeed Ahmed Alsaeed for Law and Legal Business, admitted before the Kuwaiti Court of Cassation and Constitutional Court — Kuwait’s highest ordinary and constitutional courts.

Banking & In-House Experience

Previously practiced as a lawyer within the Legal Department of Boubyan Bank, giving him direct experience of how a regulated Kuwaiti financial institution manages legal risk from the inside.

Academic & Government Advisory

Serves as a seconded faculty member at the Public Authority for Applied Education and Training (PAAET), Faculty of Law, College of Business Studies, alongside advisory appointments to Kuwait’s General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers and Military Judiciary Authority, and his role leading the Kuwait Bar Association’s review of draft legislation submitted to the National Assembly.

Arbitration Practice

Holds judicial arbitrator status with the Ministry of Justice’s Judicial Arbitration Department and commercial arbitrator accreditation with the Kuwait Commercial Arbitration Center, giving him standing to sit as arbitrator as well as to represent parties in arbitration.

Complementary Expertise & Industry Focus
  • Banking & Financial Services — grounded in his in-house experience at Boubyan Bank.
  • Construction & Real Estate — founder and partner, Manarat Company for General Building Contracting.
  • Government, Legislative & Public Sector Affairs — drawn from his advisory roles at the Council of Ministers, the Military Judiciary Authority, and the Kuwait Bar Association’s legislative review center.
  • Industrial Equipment & Energy-Adjacent Trade — founder and partner, Al-Ma’aden Al-Dhahabiya Company, trading machinery and equipment for construction, civil and petroleum engineering, and heavy equipment.
  • Marketing, Media & Advertising — founder and partner, Berillo Group for advertising, marketing, and promotion.
Education & Credentials
  • PhD Researcher, Public Law — University of Sharjah (in progress).
  • Master’s Degree, Public Law (Constitutional Law) — University of Sharjah, 2019, Excellent.
  • Bachelor of Laws — Kuwait University, 2014, Very Good.
  • ICDL (International Computer Driving License) certification — United Kingdom.
Professional Affiliations & Memberships
  • Member of Kuwait Bar Association.
  • Member of Kuwait Society for the Protection of Public Funds.
  • Member of Kuwait Society for Human Rights Principles.
  • Member of Al-Bunyan Society for Community Development.
  • President of Executive Office of the Law Society, Faculty of Law, Kuwait University, 2011.
  • Former Member of National Union of Kuwait University Students, 2009.
Honors & Recognition
  • Master’s degree awarded with Excellent distinction, 2019; Bachelor of Laws awarded Very Good, 2014.
  • Published peer-reviewed research, “The Right to Dissolve the National Assembly in the Kuwaiti Constitutional System,” Faculty of Law Journal.
  • Master’s thesis: “The Extent of Balance Between the Executive and Legislative Authorities in the Kuwaiti Constitutional System.”
  • Regular columnist for a number of Kuwaiti daily and electronic newspapers.
  • Appointed Legal Consultant to two Kuwaiti government bodies at cabinet and ministry level.
Languages

Arabic and English.