Taher Helmy is the Founder and Senior Partner of the Egyptian Law Firm Helmy, Hamza & Partners and Senior Partner of the International Law Firm of

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. He is a member of Illinois and Chicago Bar Associations, is admitted before the Federal Court of the U.S. and was the first Arab lawyer to be admitted before the

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in 1979. He is admitted before Egypt's Supreme Court and was admitted to practice in

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in 1979 and is the only lawyer admitted in the United States, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. He joined the international law firm of Baker & McKenzie in May 1975. In 1981, he was elected full partner. Baker & McKenzie is the world’s leading global law firm with over 4,200 lawyers, practicing in 77 offices located in 47 countries around the world. He practiced with Baker & McKenzie’s head office in

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for approximately nine years, in

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, for four years and in Egypt since 1987, handling corporate, banking and commercial matters. He co-founded the offices of Baker & McKenzie in Riyadh and Cairo. He served as a member of the Strategic Planning Committee and is currently a member of the Policy Committee of Baker & McKenzie. He participated in drafting and reviewing numerous pieces of Egyptian legislation, as well as the US/Egyptian Investment Treaty. He is a founder and former chairman of the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies, the first independent, private, non-profit economic Think Tank in Egypt. He is the former president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt and former member of the US/Egypt President’s Council. He is the former co-chairman of the U.S-Egypt Business Leaders Forum and founder and member of the executive board of Egypt’s International Economic Forum. He is a co-founder of the British Egyptian Businessmen Association and a member of the French Chamber of Commerce.Cornell Law School, Clark Initiative for Law & Development in the Middle East and North Africa
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Helmy, Taher Living people 20th-century Egyptian lawyers People associated with Baker McKenzie Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Egyptian lawyers