THE LINE OF BUSINESS   Advocacy and Consultancy Past experience has come across most aspects of shipping, inland transportation, multimodal operations, marine insurance and related cases. The Firm is recognized as one of the few Egyptian firms specialised in these areas. The first Egyptian Inland river port especially prepared to handle international cargo loaded/unloaded at one to the Mediterranean or Red Sea Ports, was through a concession granted to an esteemed client. Mackean has adequate experience and expertise in all types of international trade transactions. International trade is one of the major areas of practice. In most cases incidents of transfer of technology may get involved. Merchants always need business law concepts governing there disputes. Members of Mackean's staff were privileged getting instructed to translate some FIATA publications. The Arab Academy for Science Technology and Maritime Transport, to whom the task was assigned, entrusted the Firm in fulfilling this important mission. The said publications dealt with freight forwarding and the relative practices. In coming anti-subsidy and anti dumping cases were shortly at sight associated with custom control, import and export incidents. WTO Agreements has also come to highlight the relevant practices. In a recent case under an anti-dumping new statute now in force, a giant client of this Firm attempted to avoid, and succeeded to seize a last minute prevention of excessive loss. The case was one of the very first Egyptian cases in the field. Mackean has been permanently involved in construction or construction related legal advices and cases. We are concerned in projects involving every possible sector. This certainly includes the formation of construction contracts, satisfying its implementation requirements. The Firm is known to possess experience in litigation, arbitration, adjudication, mediation and expert determination in the field. E-commerce stands as a genuine challenge, which has its implications on the relevant legal advice relating to all other legal areas. Mackean assumes to have some fair knowledge as regards the legal aspects of the new booming E-commerce market-place. The firm had its legal view as to such implications and its impacts on the local legal framework. Its opinion was expressed in some researches and lectures on B2B transactions prepared in collaboration with experienced research institutes. For the most part, business entities face serious problems when coming across banking and/or financial cases. Exercising a blend of expertise and mediation skills, an eminent law firm is most likely appraised to have reached a fair, practical and unmatched settlement. The given financial entities are likely to see a feasible deal in such type of settlements. Litigation is a main practice to every law firm. We practice litigation since our inauguration in 1980. Some members of our staff were so practicing since some thirty years. We handle cases before all the Egyptian Courts including the Court of Cassation, The Supreme Administrative Court and the Constitutional Court. The Firm, however, is known as an ADR prone institute. It strives to establish ADR as common means of dispute settlement in Egypt, including arbitration as most favoured and business-friendly. In the context, it comes to collaborate with the Alexandria Business Association, the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration and the Alexandria Centre for International Arbitration. Cases before arbitral tribunals may require special preparations and skills. Some Egyptian firms are well known to be deeply specialized therein. They ethically and professionally constantly achieve remarkable results.