Ramy BASSILY

Ramy Bassily is Vice-President of the Club de l'Arbitrage and a partner at Lead up in Paris. He is a recognised practitioner in international commercial arbitration and investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS). Based in Paris, he acts across European and MENA-seated arbitrations, as both counsel and arbitrator, for multinational corporations, financial institutions, States and state-owned entities in complex cross-border disputes.

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As counsel, he appears before the ICC, ICSID, the LCIA, the AAA, the SCC, the Swiss Arbitration Centre and the VIAC, and across the principal MENA institutions, including the CRCICA, the DIAC, the Abu Dhabi International Arbitration Centre (ArbitrateAD), the BCDR, the SCCA and the QICCA, as well as in ad hoc proceedings under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules. He advises in disputes governed by French and English law, drawing on his French legal training, as well as a broad range of Middle Eastern and North African laws, and matters engaging Sharia principles. His work spans banking, construction, infrastructure, energy, distribution, defence and telecommunications.

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He is regularly appointed as arbitrator, sitting as sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator and tribunal chair. Having decided cases himself, he brings a tribunal's perspective to his advocacy as counsel.

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Ramy practised at leading firms in Egypt and France over more than fifteen years before joining Lead up as partner.

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Ramy is recognised in the Lexology Index 2026 (formerly Who's Who Legal) for arbitration, published in partnership with Global Arbitration Review. He also serves as Co-Leader of the Cairo Hub of ArabArb. He has been admitted to the Egyptian Bar Association since 2009 and works in English, French and Arabic.