Dr. Ehab Elsonbaty's practice focuses on
sovereign wealth funds, government advice
& projects and affairs, corporate
matters, corporate governance,
sustainability, ESG and Sharia
Islamic-compliant legal services. He
advises Middle Eastern entities seeking to
do business in the Americas and Americas
clients seeking to do business in the
Middle East. Ehab's extensive
transactional and regulatory experience
enables him to provide efficient and
effective strategic legal support in a
wide variety of business matters. Ehab is
a strategic advisor to many boards or
directors and advisory boards.
He helps the firm deliver seamless
cross-border solutions for Middle East
entities, among them
corporate enterprises, private equity
investors, family offices, government
entities and sovereign wealth
funds. He helps clients maximize inbound and
outbound opportunities arising from this
dynamic region, providing comprehensive
bilingual legal services and sensitive
on-the-ground awareness of each geography
in this diverse region.
Before joining AKD Partners, Ehab served
as senior legal counsel and head of
corporate governance and government
affairs and senior advisor to the general
counsel on special projects at the Qatar
Investment Authority (QIA), Qatar's
sovereign wealth fund and one of the
largest sovereign wealth funds in the
world. There, he was responsible for
strategic, corporate, sustainability, ESG
and special projects and transactions
valued at billions of dollars as well as
was a member of several management
committees including the Management
Investment Committee and the Crisis
Management Committee.
Earlier in his career, he served for six
years as senior legal advisor to the Amiri
Diwan, the office of the Amir of Qatar at
the Royal Court. During this time, Ehab
was also a member of many policy and legal
committees, among them the Permanent
Legislative Committee of the Council of
Ministers and the Committee for Review of
Legislation, as well as a member of the
National Committee to Review Commercial
Laws of the Ministry of Economy and Trade.
Ehab drafted and contributed to several
laws and regulations of Qatar, GCC and
Middle East. In addition, he served as a
public prosecutor in the Egyptian public
prosecution, and as a judge in the
commercial courts and with Assistant
Minister of Justice for more than 15
years, most recently as a judge in Cairo's
Court of Appeal. He is currently admitted
to the Bar in Egypt and is a certified and
practicing arbitrator and mediator, and a
member of the Egyptian Judges Club.
During his service in Egypt, Ehab was
seconded to the Ministry of Justice's
Office for International Cooperation and
Human Rights, was an advisor to the
Minister of Telecommunication and
Information Technology, a member of the
National Committee for Humanitarian Law, a
member of the National Committee for
Counter-Terrorism and the national
committee to control the public elections.
He has provided consultancy support to
several regional and international
organizations, such as the United Nations
(UN), the United Nations Office on
Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the International
Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN
Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the
Council of Europe and the Arab League.
Admitted in Egypt
Licensed as a Foreign Legal Consultant
by the NY State Supreme Court, Appellate
Division
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