Ashraf Shoukri is a Senior Counsel in the Litigation practice in Abu Dhabi.

He represents the firm’s clients in numerous litigation cases before all levels of UAE’s summary, local and federal courts, including representing major clients in criminal proceedings, civil claims and/or contractual liabilities disputes and interim measures related to different types of disputes.

Ashraf also represents  clients in many major criminal proceedings, involving cybercrimes, fraud, breach of trust, insults and defamation, bribery, embezzlement of public funds, disclosure of secrets, theft.

Prior to joining Al Tamimi, Ashraf advised the Egyptian Government in several PPP projects, as he previously worked  the legal advisor to the Ministry of Finance in Egypt, as well as advising the Public Private Partnership Central Unite attached to the Ministry on various mega infrastructure project tendered by the Egyptian Government for the private sector in the fields of   power plants and water sanitation projects. He also provided legal opinions related to local and international laws, negotiated and drafted contracts, agreements and memorandum of understanding the Ministry of Finance concluded with parties such as endowment agreement with Harvard University, MIT University, cooperated with all the international financial organizations working in Egypt such as the IFC,IMF and the World Bank in mutual legal works took place with the government, managed and participated in working groups of drafting promulgated laws while holding the position of Senior Legal Advisor to the Minister of Finance for several years.

Ashraf participated in drafting promulgated financial  laws and its Executives Regulations such as Income Tax Law, PPP Law and Mortgage Financing Law.  He participated as a Short Term Legal Consultant to the World Bank in drafting the newly promulgated Microfinance Law 141/2014.

Ashraf is admitted as an Arbitrator before the Cairo Regional Center for International Commercial Arbitration “ CRCICA” , he hear corporate disputes arising from the implementation of commercial, civil and financial laws. He presided over several arbitration disputes were he acted as chairman and/or sole arbitrator.

Ashraf has over twenty five years of extensive experience in dispute resolution, litigation and legislative drafting works provided to the Government of Egypt. He was a Judge at The High Appeal Court of Egypt holding the Counselor grade, and a Chief Prosecutor at the technical office of the Prosecutor General of Egypt , Ashraf was appointed as a Public Prosecutor in 1991 after his graduation from the law school in 1988 and was a Judge in first instance and appeal courts hearing criminal, family law, civil, financial and commercial disputes for almost twenty years of his carrier.

He is currently a Lawyer/legal counsel admitted before the Court of Cassation and the Supreme Constitutional Court in Egypt since 2011 after his resignation from the Judiciary in October 2011.