Member Profiles

Partner and Head of Litigation Affairs at Mena Associates in association with Amereller Legal Consultants, based in Cairo. Admitted as an attorney before the Egyptian Court of Cassation, High Administrative Court and Supreme Constitutional Court. His practices focuses on litigation, mainly in the areas of civil law, criminal law, commercial law, intellectual property law, capital markets and banking law.

Mr. Hussein has extensive experience in the legal field with a practice focuses on commercial general corporate, mergers and acquisitions and banking and finance. He is experienced in conducting cross border transactions, capital market and banking and finance. He is experienced as well in drafting, negotiating, and executing high-value transactions for corporations in the various industries (including F&B), facility agreements, natural resources, manufacturing, construction, tourism, telecommunications, and e-payment sectors. Mr. Hussein’s experience is mainly construction-related encompasses various types of agreements, e.g., manufacturing, supply, agency, distribution, transaction documents, loan agreements, islamic finance.

Hisham completed his LL.B. in 1983 and joined the firm upon graduation. Hisham started his practicing in the fields of Admiralty, Marine and Commercial (corporate) laws. His continuous work in these fields over the years allowed him to acquire extensive experience in both domestic and international Shipping, customs and Taxes, insurance claims, banking and finance, corporate and labor law, Real Estate, Property Management and contracts, Intellectual Property and other associated legal matters, including the alternative types of disputes’ resolution. He was chosen as a Partner in 1992, and became the Managing Partner as of 1996. His extensive experience extends to advising clients on stock market aspects and corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, public company takeovers, shareholders agreements, and shares purchase. Hisham has always been the head of the maritime team at our office. Hisham led the emergency team in handling all types of claims including oil pollutions (M/T Abul Kalam Azad, M/T Grigoroussa 1), hull damage (M/V Lanai, M/V Costa Europa) damage to fixed and floating objects (FFO)—as in the M/V Sarah Degagnés and Lyra Leader—which was a claim that included cargo shortage and damage, customs claims and bunkers disputes Hisham is the legal consultant of a number of the biggest companies working in Egypt in both the marine and corporate fields including multinational companies running container terminals, oil petroleum companies and is also assisting major banks and multinational companies working in the different fields of the Egyptian Economy. Hisham enjoys a wide circle of relationships in the legal and corporate areas and is a well-respected figure before the different authorities working in the fields covered by our services; Hisham is a member of several national and international organizations and is also the legal advisor to the Alexandria Chamber of Shipping and the Egyptian Vessels’ Owners Federation.

Enrique Escobar has extensive experience in the banking field, in which he has served as manager of legal departments and legal adviser of several local banks, including Banco Agrícola, S.A., which one of the largest banks in the region. He has also advised KPMG regarding taxes, has been a member of several boards of state entities such as ANDA (National Water Supply and Sewerage) and SIGET (Superintendece of Telecommunications and Electricity) As well as private enterprises such as CASALCO (Salvadorean Chamber of the Construction Industry). Within his practice, he has also advised several corporate and individual clients, with particilar emphasis on heritage structures and corporate governance, both locally and internationally.

Partner Tambet Toomela leads the data protection, labour law, intellectual property, and IT law practices of the Law Firm Eversheds Sutherand Ots & Co. Tambet has over 20 years of experience in counselling and representing clients. Tambet has extensive experience in the areas of personal data protection, employment law and technology law, which he has managed in the firm for over 10 years. Tambet has been a valued lecturer at GDPR and labour law seminars, including training the lawyers of the Labour Inspectorate, has written extensively on these topics in both the academic and daily media, and has also contributed to the legislative process. In addition, Tambet has been a lecturer in information and communication law at the University of Tartu. Tambet represented a client of our firm in a landmark Supreme Court case in the criminal proceedings on the charges of obstruction of the operation of a computer system and distribution of spyware, malware and computer viruses, which was unique and pioneering for many subsequent decisions in computer virus and computer malware related offences. Tambet has considerable experience in representing clients in dispute resolution both in and out of court, in drafting various special contracts (including advising on major industrial and development projects), in advising clients in consumer protection and advertising, as well as in arranging residence and work permits. Tambet also consults clients on various intellectual property related matters, such as acquisition, registration, licensing and protection, trade mark disputes, and assists them in handling matters concerning IT solutions, products, and services. He serves as the data protection officer (DPO) for many key-clients of the firm. From 2015 to 2020 Tambet was a lecturer at the University of Tartu, delivering lectures and seminars on ICT litigation. He is also a member of the AIPPI (International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property) Estonian National Group and a member of the IP/IT law commission at the Estonian Bar Association. Tambet has experience in all aspects of labour law disputes and related proceedings. He coordinates establishment of different staff regulations and collective bargaining situations by the employment law team. He is a well-known lecturer on employment law and among other trainings has also given a full day training to the lawyers’ team of the Estonian Employment Inspectorate (2019). Tambet is a regular contributor to several editorials on employment law.