Dr Ahmed Elsharkawy

Dr. Ahmed Elsharkawy is a senior Judge at the Egyptian Appellate Courts with over two decades of judicial experience in adjudicating complex commercial, corporate, and economic disputes. His judicial practice covers a broad spectrum of high-value matters, including shareholder and joint venture disputes, banking and financial litigation, capital markets and stock exchange disputes, investment-related disputes, competition-related cases, and regulatory conflicts, often involving sophisticated legal and economic dimensions.

Dr. Elsharkawy holds a PhD in Commercial Law, with a specialized academic focus on Competition Law, particularly the regulation of dominant market positions, abuse of dominance, and merger control. His academic work reflects sustained engagement with the interaction between legal regulation, market structure, and economic governance, with particular attention to comparative and policy-oriented perspectives.

In parallel with his judicial career, Dr. Elsharkawy is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb) and is actively engaged in the field of international commercial arbitration and alternative dispute resolution. His professional interests include arbitration and ADR across complex commercial, corporate, and investment disputes, encompassing joint venture and shareholder conflicts, banking and financial disputes, infrastructure and energy projects, intellectual property rights, competition and antitrust matters, and regulatory disputes. His experience and interests also extend to disputes arising out of international sale of goods contracts (including CISG-related matters), maritime and shipping disputes (including charterparty, carriage of goods by sea, and related commercial shipping claims), and investor–State disputes under bilateral and multilateral investment treaties.

Dr. Elsharkawy combines judicial authority, academic research, and practical dispute-resolution expertise, with particular experience in cross-border commercial and investment contexts. His background enables him to approach disputes with a balanced perspective that integrates legal rigor, procedural fairness, and economic realism. He has also contributed to legal thought and professional practice through academic lecturing and research in commercial and competition law.

Dr. Elsharkawy welcomes appointments and professional engagement as an arbitrator, ADR neutral, or academic collaborator across a broad range of commercial, corporate, maritime, regulatory, and economic disputes. His work and interests span, inter alia, international commercial and investment disputes, investor–State arbitration, international sale of goods, maritime and shipping law disputes, shareholder and joint venture conflicts, capital markets and financial disputes, infrastructure and development projects, energy disputes, competition and antitrust matters, intellectual property rights, and regulatory frameworks, with particular sensitivity to cross-border and multi-jurisdictional contexts in the Middle East and beyond.