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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