1. Islam Ahmed Mohamed Safwat
18 El Waha., Nasr City , Cairo, Egypt
Mobile +2-0122-1555655
Tel +2-02-24480809
e-mail: islamsafwat@yahoo.com
PERSONAL INFORMATION:
Nationality: Egyptian
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: September 11th
, 1981
Place of Birth: Alexandria, Egypt
Military Status: Exempted
Marital Status: Married
Religion: Muslim
EDUCATION:
University of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt
Faculty of Law 2006
L L.B / English Section
Lycee El-Horriya-English Department, Alexandria, Egypt
General Secondary School Certificate
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Egypt Kuwait Holding Co. S.A.E, AL-KHARAFI GROUP, Giza, Egypt 1/5/2013 – Current
www.ekholding.com
Job title: Deputy Legal Manager
• Drafting Articles of Association and preparing the establishment, incorporation and KYC documents of local
and foreign companies in Dubai, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Mauritius, BVI and Cayman Islands.
• Negotiating, analyzing, reviewing and drafting Joint venture agreements, Sale & Purchase Agreements
(SPA), Memorandum of understanding (MOU), Non-disclosure agreements (NDA), Escrow agreements
and Letter of intent.
• Conducting a legal "Due Diligence" reports.
• Handling the Arbitration cases.
• Attending general assembly meetings and board of directors meetings in my capacity as a Board secretary
and drafting minutes of meetings of the company and its subsidiaries.
• Designated as the Legal Counsel for the company’s subsidiaries and branches in UAE.
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2. Egypt Kuwait Holding Co. S.A.E, AL-KHARAFI GROUP, Giza, Egypt 12/4/2009 - 30/4/2013
www.ekholding.com
Job title: Senior Legal Specialist
• Drafting contracts, agreements in Arabic and English, Conducting Legal Opinions.
• Drawing up defense plans for litigation.
• Coordinating the legal issue between the company and its subsidiaries and with the governmental
authorities in order to obtain approvals, notarization the minutes of BOD and General assembly
meetings.
• Specialist in corporate laws (Egyptian corporate law, Emirates corporate law, Kuwait corporate law,
Bahrain corporate law and Sudan corporate law).
• Coordinating the legal issues between the company and its affiliates in Egypt, Kuwait, Bahrain,
Offshore companies (Jebel Ali, Dubai, UAE, British Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands).
• Incorporated companies at the Investment Authority.
• Trademarks registration
• Negotiate with laborers in the event of a dispute with the company or its affiliates in Egypt in
accordance with the Egyptian labor law.
Ghamry & Hozaien Law Firm, Giza, Egypt 1/1/2008 - 31/3/2009
Job title: Attorney at law - Senior Associate
• Designated as chief contact person and handler for the Firm’s regular clients.
• Drawing up defense plans for litigation.
• Drafting contracts, agreements in both Arabic and English.
• Conduct a legal "Due Diligence" reports for the Firm's clients.
• Attending meetings & Negotiations with or on behalf of clients.
• Handled litigation in various court cases.
• Drafting Articles of Incorporation the firm has incorporated.
• Designated as assistant lead counsel in a major arbitration case.
• Aided clients in obtaining various governmental approvals and licenses (license to issue periodical
newspaper, securities brokerage licenses, etc...).
• Handled 3 mergers and acquisition deals involving corporate re-structuring of holding companies and
respective subsidiaries.
• Advised team clients on diverse corporate matters, drafted and/or reviewed both agreements of a
general or special nature vis-a-vis third parties, (confidentiality agreements, non-disclosure agreements,
memoranda of understanding, letters of intent, shareholders agreements, sale and purchase
agreements, leasing agreements, financial leasing agreements, employment agreements.).
• Translated various documents (contracts - agreements) from English to Arabic and vice versa.
• Incorporated companies at the Investment Authority.
Abd Elsalam Ragab Law Office, Alexandria, Egypt 1/6/2006 -
31/12/2007
Job title: Attorney at law
• Designated as “Associate in Charge” for seven of the office`s major clients.
• Designated as assistant team manager for the office`s Corporate, ADR and Securities team.
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3. • Conducted all forms of corporate stewardship for clients personally handled and filled in for other teams
within the office in the handling of their clients.
• Conducted due diligence reports on 10 real estate properties for various clients, and due diligence
reports on 3 clients in various offerings (open and closed placement).
• Handled litigation in various court cases.
TRAINING:
Amer Abo Hef Law Office, Alexandria, Egypt 2003 - 2005
Trainee
• Assigned as assistant to various lawyers within the firm.
• Attended weekly training sessions given by in house staff.
• Translated and revised Commercial contracts and case files.
LANGUAGES:
Arabic Mother Tongue
English Fluent (Speaking & Writing)
COMPUTER SKILLS:
• Windows 9x/ME/2000/XP/Vista/WIN7/WIN8
• Office 2000/XP/2003/2007/2010
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