Prof. Dr. Tarek Fouad Riad

Four decades at the forefront of arbitration in the region

Prof. Dr. Tarek Fouad Riad has led Kosheri, Rashed & Riad as Managing Partner since 1989, providing legal opinions and pleading before courts and arbitral tribunals in business and commercial matters. His practice spans international trade, investment, construction, banking, customs, international loans, mergers and acquisitions, and capital market transactions.

He has appeared in proceedings under the rules of the ICC, DIAC, CRCICA, the GCC Commercial Arbitration Centre, ADCCAC, SIAC, RAK MAC, the Swiss Chambers’ Arbitration Institution, ICSID and UNCITRAL, and has advised multinational corporations including Caterpillar, Lockheed Martin, Four Seasons, Samsung, Colgate and AT&T.

Dr. Riad has served at the heart of the international arbitration community — as an Alternate Member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Dubai International Arbitration Centre, and a member of ICCA — and has contributed to drafting Egypt’s Companies, Investment, Capital Market and Economic Courts legislation.

He is Professor of Commercial and Business Law and Head of the Business Law Department at the German University in Cairo, and is regularly appointed as an expert on Egyptian and Middle Eastern law before arbitral tribunals and courts in the United States, the United Kingdom and Jersey.