Omar El Shafei
Expertise
Tax law, with particular expertise in:
– Tax policy
– Transfer pricing
– Corporate taxation
– International taxation
– Tax regulatory
Key sectors:
– construction and infrastructure
– public bodies
Foreign languages: English and Arabic
Background
- Member of the Africa Team
- Member of the Egypt Team
- Joined the firm in 2025
- Senior Group Tax Manager at Orascom Construction (2022 – 2025)
- Technical Assistant to the Minister of Finance Advisor for Tax Reforms, Ministry of Finance (2021 – 2022)
- Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Tax department (2014 – 2021)
- Associate at Ernst & Young, Tax Department (2013 – 2014)
Qualifications
- Accounting degree from The American University in Cairo
Knowledge Sharing
Egypt’s second tax facilities package: if not another amnesty, what’s in it for taxpayers?
On 3 December, Egypt’s Ministry of Finance (“MoF”) unveiled the main features of the second tax facilities package (“Package 2”). Unlike the first package, Package 2 is designed to make it easier for compliant taxpayers to do business. More measures could be coming, as the MoF also an
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