Leaders in Law is delighted to endorse Dr. Ahmed Khedr as our exclusive Mediation and Corporate Law expert in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Through this endorsement, we are pleased to highlight his position on our leading global platform, which connects distinguished legal professionals with businesses, in‑house counsel, and referrers worldwide. Our exclusive expert positions are reserved for practitioners who demonstrate consistently high standards of professionalism and sector knowledge.
Ahmed is the Advisor of Law and Corporate Affairs, Managing Partner of KLCCA Legal and Corporate Affairs, and Chairman of the Board of Advice House-KLCCA. He has a mixed background as he was an Assistant Professor of Commercial & International Commerce at Taibah University in Saudi Arabia and the British University in Egypt, and he has a background in Business Administration as he is a graduate of the Continuing and Executive Education Programme at Harvard Business School. This background made him aware of Business Law with a deeper concept that targets corporate affairs services as he merged the law with business for the sake of the continuity and development of companies.
Ahmed is a mediator who settles disputes in many complex commercial issues. He has a success rate of 100% with the highest evaluation by all parties to the conflict in disputes of commercial deals, as well as disputes of partners and shares.
Ahmed has vast experience, 30+, in dealing with private businesses, public companies, and non-profit bodies, starting in 1992, through combating crimes of corporations, banks, and capital markets, training, and consulting since 2004. He has a successful track record in the Middle East, USA, and Gulf areas in consultation on corporate laws, commerce contract drafting, negotiation and mediation, corporate governance, corporate compliance systems, compliance with capital markets, mergers, acquisitions, corporate restructuring, KPIs, family business succession, and family constitution to several multinational and local companies. He has the most influential record in supporting Corporate Governance in Saudi Arabia in cooperation with the IFC World Bank Group. In addition to that, he is one of the best service providers in supporting the provision of Governance and Corporate Affairs to several highly-rated clients in the financial market.
Ahmed is one of the leaders of Corporate Governance in MENA. He advises listed companies on many issues related to the suspension of shares and trading, also preparing and reviewing diverse codes, in addition to restructuring family businesses and converting many personal institutions into holding companies. He is the trusted expert in Gulf and Middle Eastern laws for big law firms. For example, he dealt with top famous law firms for providing legal opinions as an independent legal expert before the largest arbitration bodies in the world. As an expert, he was recommended by the most famous firms to work on the cases of the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, the Crown Prince of UAE, and the Government of the Arab Republic of Egypt in international cases. He expressed his opinions as an independent expert on Gulf law upon the request of international arbitration bodies and courts in the USA and England. Ahmed contributed as an expert for measurements of the United Arab Emirates in the World Justice Project Rule of Law Index® (The WJP Rule of Law Index 2022, 2023, 2024 report).
Ahmed is an international legal author; New York University and LexisNexis chose him as the legal author and advisor of many Gulf systems such as the UAE, Kuwait, and Qatar. He is a professional executive trainer, and the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce & Industry relied on his expertise to design the first programme in the Arab region to train local and international consultancy firms on implementing the mandatory application of corporate governance and compliance rules in the capital market of the UAE.
He was a member of T20 who participated in the development of the new generation administrative reform, investment policies, and corporate and investment laws for the Egyptian government selected to establish one of the important law colleges in Saudi Arabia and the BUE in Egypt.
Ahmed believes that “law must create a value and be one of the business resources of your corporate; for instance, clients should not be exposed to future surprises or a ruling by the court.” The interest is in merging business and law in the process of negotiation and formulation of contracts to make them protect clients’ rights and avoid future risks and make it a flexible tool for developing their business.
Ahmed took advantage of multiple abilities to create KLCCA’s own style in the mediation of complex commercial disputes as well as family business disputes in accordance with the rules of (ICC / AAA / WB), which led clients to praise the professionalism, ethics, speed, quality, and value for money. KLCCA became a haven for disputing parties from outside the region.
Ahmed is an independent board member in the private and public sectors.
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