Amr Omran

Amr Omran is 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 clientsin 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 a Delegate to the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR, an officer of the IBA Arbitration Committee and a former ICC YAAF Representative for the Middle East Chapter.

He is 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, and LLMs from McGill University, The American University in Cairo and 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.

Amr is one of ArabArb’s hub leaders in Dubai, UAE.