Youssef DAOUD

Youssef Daoud is a partner at Gaillard Banifatemi Shelbaya Disputes. He previously was a member of Shearman & Sterling’s International arbitration team, where he practiced for nine years.
He has represented companies and States in international arbitrations under the Rules of the ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL and CRCICA, with particular focus on arbitrations involving parties from or interests in North Africa and the Middle East.
His commercial arbitration experience includes multiple disputes in the oil & gas sector, as well as construction, business combination and commercial disputes.
Youssef has also appeared as counsel in investment treaty arbitrations conducted under bilateral and multilateral investment treaties in relation to real estate development projects, gas supply agreements, and concession agreements. He has acted as secretary to an arbitrator member of a CRCICA tribunal.
Youssef Daoud is recognized in Chambers Global for “his considerable expertise handling commercial and investment treaty arbitrations arising within the Egyptian energy sector.”
Youssef is a lecturer on investment arbitration at the Sciences Po Law School.