Master Lawyer Alia MONIEB

Alia is a Partner and Head of the Employment practice group within the firm’s Corporate, Commercial & Regulatory department. She has been part of the firm’s senior leadership team since its establishment in 2019. Due to her profound experience, Alia provides her clients with comprehensive legal support regarding local employment and HR matters. She also advises clients on their day-to-day employment, social insurance, and commercial law matters.Alia manages all aspects related to the onboarding of new hires, reviews all internal policies and ratifies the same, handles the collection of personal data, localizes employment contracts, and offers day-to-day advice on different employment and social insurance matters, as well as advice on redundancies, terminations, and amicable settlements with employees. Additionally, she advises and assists clients with employee transfers, outsourcing arrangements and risks, government inspections and enforcements, and investigations. Furthermore, she advises on employee statutory rights and benefits, as well as those voluntarily granted by employers, and assists in drafting all necessary templates related to the employment cycle, from onboarding through offboarding. In addition to the above, she has extensive experience advising international and multinational clients on local employment issues, redundancies, employees’ performance issues and investigations, the disciplinary process, review, and implementation of internal policies.In addition, Alia assists and handles the employment aspects of restructuring, M&A transactions, and post-acquisition matters. She also provides direct training for numerous clients’ HR departments, including companies with a labour pool of over 1,000 employees, and collaborates with several joint firms’.Moreover, Alia is highly skilled in drafting and reviewing all types of commercial agreements and advises on various aspects of commercial law, including agency, distribution, intellectual property, trade & services, anti-dumping, export and import. She also offers advice on general corporate matters. Alia is well-versed in banking & finance, covering bilateral and syndicated loans, international and local financings, project finance, securities and collateral issues, and M&As. She has also worked in Egypt’s TMT sector, representing major TMT companies and a multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related products and services.Alia has over a decade of experience, is fluent in Arabic, English and French and is qualified to practice law in Egypt.