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Meet our Team

We commit to all aspects of making great ideas come to fruition and support those leading these ideas to overcome the challenges.

Meet our Team

We commit to all aspects of making great ideas come to fruition and support those leading these ideas to overcome the challenges.

Symax Group

Symax Group is an investment holding group with diverse interests in various sectors including Technology, Food, Property, Education and Media. Symax aligns itself to innovations and pioneers with great ideas and products and services.
Symax brings extensive operational and collective executive and entrepreneurial experience in Technology, Finance Legal and Business Strategy to startups and entrepreneurs with the purpose of assisting them on their journey of growth. With a global reach and a strong and comprehensive network of business partners across the region, Symax rapidly scales up the companies in which it seeds or invests in.
At the core is a business team with several years of investment and management experience in multiple disciplines that allows the Group to have long-term investments in several industry verticals and business areas. Symax Group is actively targeting state of the art technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, IOT and IIOT, Blockchain, E-Commerce and scalable cloud-based software applications with a view of bringing positive impact to the way people live, work, buy and play.
Symax is active in Fintech Solutions and Services investing in areas such as consulting, tokenization, proprietary trading in traditional and digital assets, and creating and bringing together communities of traders onto efficient platforms, exchanges and brokerages as well as investing into neo/digital banking sector.
The Group also invests in Food and Food-tech, Edu-Tech and Legal-tech sectors as well as specific Real Estate development projects in Europe and North America, with partnerships delivering seasoned management in the specific vertical with in-depth knowledge and expertise of the specific business area.

Our Team

Our many years of experience have contributed to the success of numerous business projects.Professionalism, honesty and a sense of responsibility enable us to solve all our client's legal needs. We work efficiently to achieve the best results for our clients.

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Nada ElMawi

Senior Manager- Legal

Nada is the Head of the legal division and related affairs of the Symax Group in UAE. She has over 10 years of experience in legal matters related to banking & finance including financial crimes and fraud, as well as real-estate related disputes & litigation.

As part of her responsibilities, she advises international & local banks and Financial Houses on their banking disputes and has represented multiple international clients, on complex cross-border criminal matters such as corruption, money laundering, cybercrime, extradition, fraud, and embezzlement.
She also works with high profile clients, advising them on their real-estate matters including drafting legal agreements and handling their disputes and negotiations. Nada is highly familiar with legal enforcement of foreign and GCC judgements and has also represented clients regarding their ratification and annulment matters related to arbitral awards.

Nada has worked on a various high-profile cases involving multi-hundred million dollar settlement agreements with a number of well-known corporations, Investment Houses, and semi-governmental entities in the UAE, as well as attending successful legal mediation and arbitrage meetings in UAE, Egypt, UK, GCC, Thailand, Europe as well as The Levant and India, to name a few.

As a believer in sustainability and contribution to the community she lives in , Nada has also participated in conducting awareness campaigns and providing legal advise at Dubai Foundation and Hemaya organization for protection of children and women and promotion of Emirates Human rights.

Nada has graduated with two separate Batchelor Degrees, one in Finance and another one in Law from UAE and has attended and obtained a certificate from Harvard Business School in Negotiation.
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Amira Saqer

Pleading Lawyer

Amira Saqer is a graduate of the Police Academy and an intellectual property expert accredited by the Ministry of Justice and a holder of a high diploma from the United Nations in Geneva 2016. She has worked as a former officer in public administration, Advocate in all instances of litigation, licensed before all state courts, as an Advocate in all federal courts and courts of the Emirate of Dubai at all levels, as well as before tenancy committees and personal status courts.

Member of the Emirates Association for Lawyers and Legal Consultants. A former officer of Dubai Police at the Directorate General of Residency and Foreigners Affairs in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Extensive experience in handling complaints and criminal cases before police stations, public prosecutions, and criminal courts of all levels. Winner of the Honorary Award of the General Directorate of Residence and Foreigners Affairs in Dubai, social activist and member of numerous chambers and associations dealing with human rights and the care of women and children.

Ahmed Saber

Ahmed Saber

HEAD OF LITIGATION DEPARTMENT

A total of 28 years of experience in the legal field in different multinational offices, including 15 years in the UAE. Legal counsel in the Magic Circle law firm for over 8 years. Holder of a master’s degree of law in the United Arab Emirates. Mr. Saber is currently pursuing a PhD in Corporate Law in the United Arab Emirates. His main area of expertise is in litigation, real estate, banking and a keen interest in different and civil law legislation. A member of the Bar Association and the International Arbitration in Cairo, Egypt. With experience extending to the Supreme Military Court in Egypt, as well as a certified legal trainer of the Emirates Association of Advocates and his membership on the Arab Lawyers Union. 

Mr. Saber is also a published author in UAE Real Estate law, his books are available The Real Estate Regulatory Agency (RERA).

Salem Ragab

Salem Ragab

HEAD OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DEPARTMENT

With 20 years as a lawyer and legal consultant in the United Arab Emirates, Mr. Ragab has successfully managed several well-known international brands. Head of litigation in his previous firm and current member of the International Trademark Association (INTA). He frequently conducts training and workshops on brand awareness on behalf of his clients. He holds a degree in Law from Mansoura University in Egypt and a diploma in intellectual property.

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Yaser Saleh

Head Of Collection Department

Yasser Saleh Abd El Meguied Hassan studied law at the Faculty of Law, University of Alexandria, graduated in 1989. He worked as a lawyer since his graduation until now. 

He received many training courses inside Egypt on international arbitration, forgery and forgery research, and public funds crimes. He also received several training courses in Paris, France, on the management of small and Medium enterprises, he established a company in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates from 2009 until 2019 to work with banks in the field of collection, and he also founded the Egyptian International Firm for Legal Consultations and Financial Collection, for a period of more than twenty years, during which he managed to increase the number of the company’s branches to eight branches in Cairo and major governorates working for banks And the financial institutions affiliated to the Consumer Finance Law. 

He is also a member of the Inter Legal network, which is based in Switzerland, and it is one of the largest legal institutions that include a distinguished group of elite lawyers in the world through which it practices work on common international issues. 

He was chosen to be one of the Board of Directors of Misr Finance, one of the subsidiaries of Misr Insurance Holding Company, and one of the most important financial leasing and factoring companies in Egypt. 

He is a member of the Board of Directors of Ma’ak Company for Micro Finance. 

DR. ELSabbah Ashri

DR . ELSabbah Ashri

PhD in Law — Digital Banking Crimes

Dr Ashri has almost 3 decades worth of experience in the legal field, obtained his bachelor’s and master’s in law and PhD in Criminal Law from the University of Cairo.

Not only is he a registered member of the Egyptian Bar Association, he obtained many scientific courses in international arbitration and is licensed as an international arbitrator by the Chamber of International Arbitration.

Dr Ashri has an interest in criminal, commercial and financial law particularly. Due to his vast experience in Egypt and the United Arab Emirates he was approved to obtain his license by the Ras Al Khaimah government as an attorney in the Ras Al Khaimah courts for all types of lawsuits.

Dr\ Tarek Abdul-Aziz Newar

DR . Tarek Newar

Criminal Department — PhD in Economic and Financial Law

Dr. Tarek is a legal consultant, certified legal training expert, professor and lecturer of law. 36 years of law implementation in the United Arab Emirates and Egypt. He is a member of the Bar Association in Egypt and registered to the high appeal instance. A proud member of the Arab Lawyers Union, the Association of Legal Consultants in Egypt, the Egyptian Association for Political Economy and Legislation in Cairo, the Arbitration and Total Quality Center and the Standards Unit at the Faculty of Law, Tanta University, and the International Society of Law Execution Planners.

Dr Nawar is a registered commercial arbitrator with the Center for Commercial Arbitration and Dispute Resolution in Sharjah, Ajman, and Ras Al Khaimah. His academic achievements include a Bachelor of Law and Bachelor of Police Sciences from Egyptian Police Academy, bachelor’s degree in public law, two Postgraduate diplomas in economic & financial legislation, Public Law and a PhD in law.

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Hossam Fawzy

Corporate Department

Mr Fawzis experience in the United Arab Emirates from 2009 spans from legal consultancy, technical directorial as well a legal advisory. He specializes in civil and commercial disputes, arbitration, corporate business, banks, investment agencies, the capital market, and startups. He drafts commercial contracts and agreements, personal status matters and criminal disputes.

The experience obtained in Egypt since 1993 is also of great prominence whether in the Egyptian Court of Cassation, the Supreme Administrative Court, and the Constitutional Court. He is also an active member of the Arab Bar Association.

Ayman Al-Ajmawy

Ayman Al-Ajmawy

Intellectual Property Department

With 26 years of legal experience in Egypt Mr Aymen holder of a master’s degree in law from the university of Cairo with experience spread out in the fields of litigation, civil and real estate, banks, arbitration, drafting and reviewing legislation. Additionally, he is a researcher whose publications have been granted the most noteworthy rankings, with keen interest in International human rights laws.

In addition to being a member of the Egyptian Bar Association Mr Al-Ajmawy is an active member in The Arab International Organization for the Arab Lawyers Union, The Egyptian Society of International Law and The Egyptian Society of Criminal Law.

Sally Jalal Saleh

Sally Jalal Saleh

Intellectual Property Department

Sally Saleh is a Senior Associate in our Intellectual Property practice. She worked at multiple leading Intellectual Property firms in Jordan, Qatar, and UAE. She assisted international and domestic Brand Owners in devising and implementing tailored strategies for trademark protection in the MENA region, with regard to prosecution, enforcement, and litigation. Also assists clients in drafting and reviewing franchise and licensing agreements and other IP commercial agreements.

She has extensive experience in comprehensive IP Legal Consultancy services such as IP Strategy & Enforcement, IP Portfolio Management, anti-counterfeiting strategic planning, infringement, and unfair competition litigation

She is experienced in dealing with cases involving different types of IP Rights, including trademarks, industrial designs, and models, copyrights, domain names, and trade secrets. She has been in practice as a Law Lecturer and Licensed Lawyer for Five years. As she has experience teaching commercial and intellectual property law for more than five years at Stenden University in Qatar. She holds an LL.B in Law as well as LL.M in Intellectual Property Laws (Run By WIPO) from the University of Jordan.

Sally’s practice covers the full range of intellectual property (IP) matters and keeps her up-to-date with new developments in both the law and technology. As a result, she has had widespread experience in all areas of patent, trademark, copyright, and unfair competition law, and her work involves a wide range of technical subjects.

Hazem Hussein

Hazem Hussein

Corporation Department

Mr Hussein is a highly qualified legal Consultant with eight years of experience in the United Arab Emirates, having gained his expertise in Egypt with extensive experience in arbitration and litigation.

He is highly proficient in matters involving civil and commercial disputes, criminal cases, administrative law and related disputes. His area of expertise includes litigation before the courts and before arbitration tribunals. Hazem has experience in drafting purchase agreements and other commercial contracts, including but not limited to acquisitions, mergers and joint venture agreements.

He has a keen interest in Islamic financial law and he holds a postgraduate diploma in Islamic Law from Alexandria University, Hazem has been a member of the Egyptian Bar Association since 2008.

Ayman Makram

Ayman Makram

Litigation Department

Lawyer and legal consultant with over 22 years of practice in civil, commercial, labor, personal and criminal cases. Since moving to the United Arab Emirates in 2006, Mr Makram dealt with thousands of cases throughout the country. Excels in providing legal consultations in the fields of real estate, civil, corporate, commercial, labor, personal and criminal cases in both Arabic and English. Valuable experience in Dubai rental law, its amendments and has managed several rental disputes in Dubai with excellent results.

Obtained his diploma in Islamic law from Ain Shams University after achieving his law bachelor’s degree in 2000. A registered legal consultant in the UAE for the past 2 decades, as well as being a member of the Egyptian Bar Association since 2001.

Ibrahim Mousa

Ibrahim Mousa

Litigation Department

A member of the Egyptian Bar Association with 16 years of experience in legal consultations, drafting memorandums for all types of civil and commercial cases, bankruptcy cases, labor and real estate cases, personal status and criminal cases. In 2006, he obtained his bachelor’s degree of Laws from Zagazig University. He also holds a Diploma in law, Judicial Sciences and a master’s degree in Civil Law and Enforcement.

Samar Atef

Samar Atef

Litigation Department

Ms Atif has 10 years of experience in the United Arab Emirates, has worked efficiently in various subject areas in both consultation and litigation matters.

She has a keen interest in Muslim and Non-Muslim personal status cases (family law), due to her advance language skills Samar is ideal to handle different jurisdiction matters. Her experience also includes rental disputes, labor disputes, regulatory investigations.

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Khawla El-bakri

Legal consultancy

Khawla a lawyer with an LL.B from the American university, with 2 years of experience in educational disputes. Fluent and has practiced in both English and Arabic, making her ideal for either. Has a keen interest in family and international law specifically human rights law.

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Litty Francis

Legal consultancy

Litty Francis, BA LL.B from India is versatile and has rich hands on experience in many aspects of legal matters in the region. She has 3 years’ experience in the courts of India and had worked as a lawyer for various companies in the UAE.  

She has experience in drafting, reviewing key legal documents in the areas of bilateral agreements, Mergers & Acquisitions, Contracts, Brands licensing, Non-Disclosure agreements and customized MOU’s.  She has done legal due diligence exercises across companies in the areas of merger and acquisitions.  Protection of Intellectual Property is another core area of her expertise with particular focus on product and process patents and trademarks. Litty is specialized in UAE labour laws and has also been liaison contact for organizations with key governmental bodies like DED, Ministry of Economy, MOHRE, and various Freezones authorities. Fluency in English, Hindi and Malayalam.

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Mahmoud Helal

Executive Manager - Collection Department

Mahmoud Helal was graduated from Alexandria university (EGYPT) faculty of law at 2000. He was especially interested in challenging employment that will utilize his education and professional skills and offer advancement opportunities in professional industry. Luckily, he encouraged those interests. That encouragement drove his to computer literate “Microsoft office” and learn another new language to can communicate with most of nationalities. No challenge was too great for Mahmoud to take on.  

Mahmoud accomplishments did not end there. In 2000, he joined Yasser Saleh office and worked as lawyer in Alexandria, Egypt just for three years. In 2003, Mahmoud recognized his challenges: he became a Manager Collection and Supervisor “Credit card, personal loans recovery, Dept Collection” for Example (Barclays bank, Arab Bank and Credit Agricole bank) next to legal officer for all banks “criminal & civil cases”, for seven years.

When he know about his endless ambition he transferred to another great country “united Arab Emirates “ especially Dubai City and he continued his professional career as Collection Manager, Supervisor for the same banks at Egypt increase on it “Dubai Islamic Bank and UNB “ and continued also as a legal officer At Lootah Advocates & Legal Consultants with Yasser Saleh for two years .After that he back to his country to continue his career in Co-operation with Yasser Saleh at Egyptian International Firm as Collection Manager, Supervisor and Lawyer legal officer for banks “CIB, Credit Agricole, EGY Bank, Cairo Bank, ENBD and FAB” for seven years. 

Mahmoud encourages young people—especially Modern Generation—to be more active, hard worker and never disappoint at them life. His life example teaches us to follow our dreams, no matter how great. 

Reda Mohamed

Reda Mohammed

Intellectual Property Department

Hold Bachelor Degree in Chemical Engineering 2003 Working as Director of Marketing, Training and Technical Support in the Intellectual Property Department He worked with multiple companies in the field of production, marketing and sales in Egypt and the UAE His area of expertise in marketing, sales and anti-imitation

Our court department, staffed by accomplished LLB degree holders, adeptly navigates the legal frameworks in the UAE, managing and coordinating cases with diligence. By overseeing court administration tasks, liaising with third parties, and maintaining efficient procedures, the department significantly enhances the smooth operation of legal processes concerning our clients’ cases.

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Ballegh Hamdy

Court Department

Farouk Khalifa

Farouk Khalifa

Court Department

Mohamed Saber

Mohamed Saber

Court Department

Mahmoud Hamad

Mahmoud Hamad

Court Department

Ahmed Adel

Ahmed Adel

Court Department

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Javid Kondkari

Director- Finance

Javid Kondkari is a dedicated and detail-oriented Financial Analyst committed to teamwork that leads to success. Javid has twenty years of experience in key areas of accounting, finance, financial analysis, financial modeling, business valuation, business performance analysis, budgeting, and implementations of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems.

He has worked in various sectors throughout the last 20 years in India and the MENA region, and closely with businesses in other parts of the world, mainly Europe and the USA. Javid has implemented and streamlined cutting-edge data management procedures, improving the operational efficiency of the companies.

His diversified experience includes working in various positions in large multinational organizations such as Unilever, Motorola, and MYCOMOSI. Javid obtained a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Mumbai, with specialization in financial accounting, Financial Management, and Auditing.

Hadeel Adie

Hadeel Adie

Financial Department

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Nancy Fuerzas

Accountant

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Sara Hassan

Executive Assistant — Admin Department

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Hadeer Khaled

Secretary — Admin Department