Biography
Amr Omran is a Counsel at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP based in Dubai. He is a member of the firm’s International Arbitration Group and Global Projects Disputes Practice. He also heads the Dubai office’s Middle East Law Practice. Amr represents clients in construction, commercial and investor-state proceedings under all major arbitration rules and different systems of law. He also sits as arbitrator and is a judge on the Appeals Panel of the International Basketball Federation. He is the ICC YAAF Representative for the Middle East Chapter, a Delegate to the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR, an officer of the International Bar Association and a member of the Equal Representation for Expert Witnesses Pledge Young Practitioners Sub-committee.
He has been ranked in legal directories and recognised as one of Africa’s 30 Most Prominent Young Arbitration Practitioners. Amr holds a licence en droit from Cairo University, an LL.M. in Comparative Law from McGill University, an LL.M. in International and Comparative Law from The American University in Cairo, and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School. Before joining Freshfields, Amr worked at The World Bank in Washington, DC, and the Public Prosecution Office in Cairo. Amr is a native Arabic speaker and fluent in English. He is admitted to the Egyptian Bar Association and the New York Bar. He is also registered as a legal consultant with the Dubai Legal Affairs Department.