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In the following, we aim to clarify the laws relevant to businesses operating in Egypt. To this end, we shall focus on the corporate, labour, investment, and property laws of the country.

Egyptians have a great enthusiasm for association football, borne of a long history of the sport in the country, the success of the national team and the intense rivalry that characterises the game at the domestic level. Paintings on Ancient Egyptian temples depict balls being kicked. The modern game arrived around the 1880s, when Egyptians...

A TRANSITIONAL PERIOD: The sudden and unprecedented collapse of former president Hosni Mubarak's regime plunged Egypt into a period of significant economic uncertainty. The lack of political clarity for a long time has severely affected business and consumer confidence, as well as having significant...

Peak oil, put simply, refers to the point in time when global oil extraction reaches its maximum capacity. After this point, the rate of production enters into terminal, irreversible decline. As a theory, it has generated more controversy than is perhaps appropriate for what remains a logical statement of fact. That is, oil, like any finite resource...

Nuclear power has long been the subject of intense discussion, and ever more so in the wake of meltdowns and accidents. Fears of environmental and health risks have sparked fierce resistance in some quarters against a form of power generation that is cheap, clean and long-lasting after incidents at Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and Fukushima – often...

While Egypt’s proven reserves for oil and gas are expected to continue growing, this increase will likely require moving exploration and production into more costly offshore deepwater blocks. Offshore drilling targets oil and natural gas deposits trapped beneath the ocean floor – or in some cases beneath inland lakes and seas – which are accessed...